Get images from here and update!https://sites.google.com/a/monkeycontact.com/wiki/unsorted/slack-guideSlack is real-time messaging platform that goes beyond chat. Integrations with apps like Google Drive, Asana and Harvest make an ideal email replacement for teams. The company’s recent $2.8 billion valuation and rapidly growing user base also means that mor of us use it every day.
You might already be using Slack for your company or with another team. If you want to have easy access to more then one team from your desktop or mobile client simply click on the big "+" and add aditional teams.
Collaboration gets easier when you know who you are talking to and what other channels of communcation (such as Skype or Hangout) are available. Simply click on "profile and account" below the team name.
Click on the person's icon in any conversation and then click "View profile" under the person's photo/avatar.
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You can find out more about a particular channel by clicking the Show Channel Info button at the top of the window. This opens the Channel Info pane to the right of the window.
The Channel Info pane includes a brief description of the channel and a link you can click to invite other.
Pinned items are chat messages in the channel that someone thinks everyone in the channel should see. For example, if someone posts a new requirement in the #customer-x channel then he or she can click the icon to the right of the announcement and pin it to the side. Unless the channel is restricted, anyone can pin or unpin anything.
The Channel Info pane also lists Members who’ve joined the channel. Green dots to the right of the member names indicate those team members are online right now.
Always mention people on channels if you want to send them a notification. If you're in a middle of a conversation and you know the client/teammate is reading live, no need to tag them. No need to tag every sentence or paragraph. Enough to tag ONCE.
Hey @client, hope all is well! Here's what we we up to today:
etc.
Access all starred messages by clicking the star icon in the top right
If you’ve got a particularly important file – say a proposal document in a channel working on a particular job – you can pin it and it’ll appear in the Channel Info, making it easily accessible even if it was shared a while before.
Simply find the file, choose More Actions and choose “Pin to #channel”. You can un-pin it at any time.
If you check on new messages in a channel and have no time to act on it, you can mark a specific message and all the ones below it back to unread. That way, the channel’s name in your left sidebar becomes bold again and you can come back to it later. All you need to do is select a message while holding down the Options (Alt) key.
You can also choose "Mark unread" in the "More Actions" menu.
Rather than sift through clunky conversations to pluck out important info that might be relevant to the projects you’re working on, you can tell Slack to highlight specific words or phrases and ping you with a notification whenever they’re mentioned. Go to Preferences > Notifications > Highlight Words and input the specific words or phrases, separated by commas. Your name is a good one to start with.
These starred chats will appear at the very top.
Click on your profile picture (at the bottom) and go to Preferences > Advanced >Channel List. Select “Hide any channels, DMs or groups which have no unread activity.” This will remove all conversations, except for those with unread messages.
On Mac, it’s Command + K or Command + T. On Windows, it’s Ctrl + T or Ctrl + K. Quickly jump to go to any channel, group, or direct message! Type or use the arrow keys to navigate, then press return to select.
Also try it on your mobile device.
Hover over the message, click the gear icon, and select “Edit.” You can also press the up arrow to edit your last message.
So you could search like, “during:yesterday burrito baby”
You can also combine modifiers in a search (eg. from:nicole in:san-francisco)..
-- though we recommend to use ONE platform (Asana)
Conversely, “/expand” will make the images reappear.
Slack has a variety of different ways to format the writing you submit using a number of symbols in the text.
Here are the ways you can use them to make your messages clearer.
code, placeHint: If you can’t remember these, type the format you want and a guide will appear on the right beneath your message box.
Especially useful if combined with customized emojis, the add a reaction tool can be useful to show a quick acknowledgement or actioned response.
For instance, different colored circles could be used to mark progress on a task posted; each user can react to each message as many times as they like, so progress can be seen quickly and visually.
Slack’s Files system enables you to create different notes and code snippets in a variety of languages. The editor changes depending on language to format well, making it as good a browser-based text editor as you could hope to find.
What’s more, it’s easy to share the code you’ve been working on to receive comments and feedback from within the Slack system. That said, you can keep snippets private in your own little sandbox for as long as you like.
If there’s a time where you want to talk to absolutely everyone in your team, you can use the @everyone tag to send a notification to everyone person.
@channel and @group can be used to notify everyone within a channel or group respectively, in a similar way. Meanwhile, @here will notify everyone who’s online (and using a desktop).
Entering a forward slash “/” in any channel opens up a window on top of your message field with a lot of useful commands. For example, you can invite another user to the channel with “/invite @username“, open a new channel with “/open <channel>” or start a Google Hangout with “/hangout“. To prevent total chaos, the number and types of available commands depends on the user’s permissions in a channel.