Todoist's Slack competitor is for people who hate constant notifications
A new team communication app called Twist has a way for people to get more done at work: fewer notifications.
Created by Doist, the team behind productivity app Todoist, Twist’s biggest differentiator is that it’s based on asynchronous communication. With an interface that feels more like a message board, Twist has channels, which then contain threaded conversations underneath. The threads are meant to encourage in-depth conversations versus one-line interactions, and every response in a thread can be set to notify the entire group, or only certain people. All notifications are centralized, and appear in the Inbox, located in the top left.
Twist, which launched in beta in January and opened to public...