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Hey everyone,

Quick question out of curiosity.

I work as a manager in a consulting firm, and a lot of my day goes into communicating across platforms like Slack, WhatsApp, Teams, LinkedIn messages, etc. Switching between all of them sometimes feels a bit messy.

A couple of things I personally struggle with are important tasks getting buried in chats and constantly jumping between apps to keep up with conversations.

Would be great to hear how you handle this in your day-to-day work.

We used https://meetfranz.com/ at my previous job where we had tons of external clients with different messengers.

You can use matrix to bridge all those to an internal matrix server.

If you want a solution where that’s pretty much already done you can try Beeper

Thanks for sharing this. Yeah I have this platform, it definitely helps bring everything into one place. But I feel it is missing a to do or task management side, which is pretty important for me.

Do you know any tools that handle both messaging and tasks well?

Thanks for sharing this, appreciate it.

Matrix sounds solid, but feels a bit too heavy for me to set up and maintain since I’m not really into coding setups like that. Also, Beeper seems more in line with what I’d actually use though. My main gap right now isn’t just bringing messages together, it’s tying them to tasks so things don’t get lost in chats.

Still figuring out a setup that balances both without adding more complexity.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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I have been using beeper for a while now and its amazing, signal, teleagram, whatsapp and others all in a single app. Both mobile and desktop.

Also, you could self host all the bits if you want

Yeah, I agree, Beeper is pretty great for bringing everything into one place. Makes handling multiple apps a lot smoother.

But I still feel it’s missing that AI layer like auto summaries, extracting tasks, or helping manage a proper to-do list from chats. That’s the part I keep feeling is missing.

Matrix bridges or XMPP gateways (like Slidge) would help.

Not sure how you’d tie them to tasks though. For Matrix, maybe you can set up a private room, and create a thread-based issue tracker with reference to your other chats’ message IDs.

I think beeper plus has a bunch of integrations, I wouldn’t be surprised if that included LLMs

Yeah, I agree, it’s a solid approach in theory.

But coming from a non coding background, setting up and maintaining something like that feels a bit difficult for me to realistically manage.

I’m more leaning towards something that’s easier to get started with and doesn’t need much setup or ongoing effort.

Yeah, I might be wrong here, but as far as I know Beeper Plus doesn’t really have proper LLM features built in. It has things like reminders and transcription, but nothing like chat summaries or task extraction from what I’ve seen

Also, I’m from a non coding background, so I’m mostly looking for something that works out of the box without needing too much setup.

But if you know any simple way to plug LLM into Beeper without getting too technical, would love to hear about it.

Unrelated to self hosting: jira or whatever ticketing system your company uses. They tend to have integrations into those other apps where you right click and create a ticket. Then the ticket list is my source of truth.

No idea, I quit that rat-race job 4 years ago and haven’t used it since then. I am never gonna work a job that requires being online and available all the time ever agaib.

I’m mostly looking for something that works out of the box without needing too much setup.

Sir, this is a c/selfhosted.

Building systems to solve problems is the hobby. You understand the motivation, you have a problem and there are not any easy solutions. At this level it’s a lot like working with Legos, there’s a bunch of software that you can snap together to get result that you’re looking for, though you will sometimes need some scripts to glue it all together.

But if you know any simple way to plug LLM into Beeper without getting too technical, would love to hear about it.

n8n is useful for creating arbitrary AI workflows. Designing a workflow is mostly graphical though a bit of simple scripting could be useful, depending on your requirements. It looks like it has a Matrix node already: https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/app-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.matrix/

Typically a coding LLM can cover your bases on this kind of simple scripting, even if you don’t personally know how to code (though, as with all LLM code output, test it on dummy data before you plug it into production).

I used it a while back. It was completely useless. None of the apps want you to use them this way so you’re dealing with constant intentional roadblocks they put up for you and constantly logging you out.

Further, I see zero point at all in using Signal when all of your metadata is just being logged on Beeper’s servers anyway.

Matrix bridges. I run my own matrix instance with bridges to the services I use (google messages, whatsapp, irc, discord; there are other bridges available) so I can use one client for all.

Well it works now and you can self host, so what’s your point?

My point is it doesn’t work, and you can’t use the Beeper app with your self-hosted server.

But any app works. I tried Schildichat, Element, Fluffychat, Nekho and others.
The problem is not the app, they all work for what OP wants. It’s just a bit of a hurdle to set up the server, but there are complete ansible-repos to do that.

Well you specifically referred to the Beeper app. And hosting your own won’t solve the other problems I mentioned.

I did not mention the beeper app.

And hosting is nearly flawless, I host a small server for me and a few friends and it works and has worked for years. (I should just update more often, but that is my fault)

there are complete ansible-repos

Ansible is toxic. Anything else?

This is probably this most unhelpful and toxic fucking comment, that was replied to any of my comments on Lemmy.

Congrats.

PS: And no, I don’t want to know, why ansible is “toxic”.

Right, well, the person I replied to specifically mentioned the Beeper app. My mistake.

It does not work, for reasons I’ve specified in my original reply.

i’ve heard of beeper before, and it’s what i want, but something feels off about it?

is it open source? what can you say about their privacy policy.

Thanks for sharing this. It sounds like a powerful setup, but I’m not very technical, so managing a Matrix instance feels a bit complex for my use case. I’ve also tried integrating Google Chat, but it hasn’t been possible due to recent changes in Google’s security policies, which makes it harder to rely on as a complete solution

I’m a bit late to the party but the stack I run is what Beeper uses. If you don’t mind handing them your IMs it’s exactly what they host and it works great (used it for a year before I decided to host my own things).