Back from vacation? How to catch up on team chat without reading every message
Hundreds of unread messages after a week off? A 30-minute routine for catching up on Slack, Teams or any team chat, plus a handover template to copy.
October 11, 2026
Victor Strindemark
Co-founder at Drum
Represents the product side and user experience at Drum. Writes about how small teams actually use chat, and what we learn building one.
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Who's writing this down?? Ringo is.
A small pixel rabbit pops up onto the call's control bar, opens a notepad and starts scribbling. Send him off when you're done, and a few seconds later his notes show up in the channel the call belongs to.
September 22, 2026
Your real work, not just a link to it
Someone posts a link. You click it. A new tab opens. Maybe a login screen. The page loads, you read it, you come back to chat and type "lgtm 👍". Then you go back to the tab, because you still haven't pressed the button.
August 13, 2026
Meet Ringo
When you create a Drum workspace, something shows up that other chat apps don't. An actual member of your team. A character with a name, Ringo.
July 29, 2026
Hello. We're Drum
We built a team chat app for people who make software. That's it. That's the premise.
June 30, 2026