#Slack remind me mac#

Is someone endlessly annoying you? Another throwback from the days of IRC is to get revenge by throwing them out of the channel if you’ve got the appropriate admin powers.

Or just italicize your text by using _word_. If you want to talk in third-person on Slack, simply type /me and it’ll appear like you’re doing an action. This one’s a throwback from the IRC days, but it’s handy for newcomers to know. For example, if you need to remind yourself to do the laundry, you can type /remind me in 30 minutes to do the laundry and Slack will privately remind you to do it. You can secretly use Slack to remind you for everything. Now you’ll see a message in that channel every time an item rolls in. You want to get TNW directly in your Slack, right? You can subscribe to RSS feeds right inside Slack channels by typing /feed subscribe. It’s a little complicated to set up, but once it’s working and you’ve sent your first slew of ten cute pictures of pugs into a channel, you won’t regret it. It’s got hundreds of different abilities and is one of the coolest things you can add to your Slack setup. Hubot is a chat room bot that’s been around for a while that can do a bunch of cool things like fill a channel with cute pug images or automatically translate text. To see them again, you can hit the small arrows next to GIF links. Have you unleashed Giphy hell on your Slack channels? Hiding them temporarily so you can actually get some work done is as easy as typing /collapse to make them go away temporarily. Don’t blame me if you don’t get any work done after you’ve turned this on.

It’s as simple as heading here and enabling Giphy integration, if you’ve got the right powers to do so. Giphy integration with Slack means you can type /giphy and get the appropriate GIF plopped right into the channel. But keep in mind to run it by your admin as the tool hasn’t yet been reviewed by Slack. If someone at your office loves Taylor Swift, for example, you could pretend to post as her in one of your channels.

This handy little tool lets you put fake users inside your channels and post messages as them. If you try to do in a room with a bunch of people who are in different timezones, you’ll get a friendly warning that you might not want to ping everyone. Luckily, Slack’s got your back before you send notifications to people from around the world at once. Using to notify everyone of something neat, but what about when you’re in a global team across four timezones? This in combination with the previously mentioned quick switcher is perfect for quickly moving around in Slack. Hit the arrow next to your username in Slack, then ‘Preferences’ and then ‘Sidebar’ and change channel visibility to ‘Unreads only’. If you’re in too many Slack channels like me, there’s a handy tweak that lets you hide all channels unless you’ve got a message.

#Slack remind me mac#

The quick switcher can be activated by hitting ⌘ + T on a Mac or CTRL + K on a Windows computer and type the first few characters before slamming enter to quickly switch. Quickly switch channelsīecome a Slack ninja and switch channels using only your keyboard. If you add more than one, it’ll be randomly selected from the available messages every time Slack is loaded. Like custom emoji, anyone on your team can set a custom loading message (if your friendly admins haven’t disabled it).Īll you need to do is head to this URL and set your own fun loading message. Slack’s default loading messages are adorable, but what if you want to troll your coworkers? Slack’s got your back. But don’t stop there! Sky’s the limit when it comes to creating custom emoji. It’s add a layer of personality while you keep bugging your coworkers for updates on projects. I highly recommend setting up emoji for each team member’s face, like we did here at TNW. Simply upload the image and everyone on your team can use it. In fact, anyone on your Slack team can add custom emoji (unless your admins disable it - sorry if the fun police go that far) by heading to this URL.Īll you need to set up your own custom :yourname: emoji is the name you’ll want to use for its shortcut and a 128px x 128px square image. While unicode doesn’t provide your face as an emoji, you can add your own.