issue 001 🗞️ Tella's Auto-Zoom Release, Phone Bookings on Cal.com, and Default Emojis in Slack

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After years of collecting data, the number one thing I've learned is most founders & freelancers are not afraid to adapt good SaaS into their workflows, they just don't know where to start and/or how to keep up with the changing tech landscape. 

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Now, your audience can use their phone number (and no email) to schedule a time to meet with you. To enable it, go to your event type and add Phone number as one of your booking questions in advanced settings, make it required, then remove the email field.

For those who are regularly recording videos and screen-sharing, this feature will allow auto-generate zooms on clicks, to more easily show the actions taken within your video. Auto-Zoom is available in the editor toolbar to also manually add zooming on any video you've recorded. 

Did you know you can customize your default emojis in Slack? I didn't. 

You know about my emoji SYSTM, but there are specifically three emojis I use within daily workflows that would make things so much easier if I could have them in the one-click toolbar; the green checkmark (done), the disco ball (to delete item), and the Google Calendar logo (to add to my calendar for task/time blocking). 

To achieve this; 

1. Open Slack on desktop, 

2. Click Tools & Settings, then Customize Workspace, 

3. Click each default emoji to change it. 

Confirming here, that you can select custom emojis you've uploaded, just type in the name to find it (this pop up does not show your recent used). 

In working with a recent client, they requested an “updates feed” on their Notion dashboard to easily share announcements, news, and other general information with their global team.

Here’s how we accomplished it (watch the video below or read the guide here).

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