I imagine these summaries will be useful when returning from an extended vacation, but also when jumping into a new project or a new job. Whenever someone adds you to a busy Slack channel (or an entire workplace), a lot of your time is likely spent catching up on what's going on, ...
Our file management apps also unfurl files to give you a crisp file preview, rather than a gobbledygook URL. When you work with files in Slack, you can have related discussions and make decisions in one place. For example, if someone posts a mockup from Google Drive into a relevant Slack...
Whatever you post in channel is going to be long-lived and add to the group conversation that people are reading, both in the moment and later when they look back at what was shared. In response to a user action, an app could publish an in-channel message, or an ephemeral message. In...
Unless you invite someone to a room, no one in your Google Workspace can view or join it. On the other hand, when you create a channel in Slack, you can choose if it’s private or public. Our experience using Google Chat When we explored Google Chat, we found some pretty unique ...
Set a conversationtopicor channel description Addpeople to a channel Removesomeone from a channel Renamea channel Converta channel toprivateor public Leavea channel Archiveordeletea channel Use thegeneralchannel toshareannouncements Copy membernamesandemailaddresses from a conversation ...
Whatever you post in channel is going to be long-lived and add to the group conversation that people are reading, both in the moment and later when they look back at what was shared. In response to a user action, an app could publish an in-channel message, or an ephemeral message. In...
Slack allows you to use threaded conversations, which can be very helpful for knowledge management. When a team member starts a conversation about a specific topic, others can add their input by replying to the thread. This keeps the conversation organized and easy to follow, and ensures that ...
You can schedule a reminder for a specific time or set a date using the MM/DD/YYYY format. Slack recommends this structure for a reminder:/remind [@someone or #channel] "[what]" [when]. If you want to review your list of reminders, simply use the command/remind list. From there, ...
It also requires that you haven't typed anything else after it, haven't clicked over to a different conversation, and are on desktop. If you try to unsend your message under any other condition…crickets. But there's another option: you can delete Slack messages. How to delete a ...
And every day, I tell someone on Slack who asks if I have a second to talk, "yeah! just give me five minutes," and then 45 minutes later, they way-too-kindly DM me to ask if I'm ready. But it doesn't make sense to add those kinds of things to a to-do list or schedule ...