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There is a time and a place to use them, although in our case it’s every time and every place! Of course, some people could find this annoying, so use wisely. That team has had a big influence on how we have worked elsewhere! My colleague and I have both worked for a team that claimed they could communicate exclusively through gifs. Giphy is a great Slack app that can help replace a bit of the fun that sometimes goes missing when working remotely. Slack’s guide to using scheduled messages can be found here. Instead, you can schedule messages to post the following day, or at a time when notification pings won’t disturb colleagues who might be working on different time schedules to you. We recently found out that Slack messages don’t have to be instant. Slack’s guide to using sections can be found here. For example, we have Sections for things like “Admin”, “Team Channels” and “Alerts”. Put simply, Sections allow you to group related channels in the left hand menu and then expand and collapse them to focus on the priorities. Slack SectionsĪ common complaint we hear about Slack is from people being overwhelmed by the number of channels they need to follow. There are also some great notes on how NOT to use these in our very own EE Slack guide here.

If you’re a “black belt” Slack user, please feel free to skip, otherwise this blog should help you understand how to use Slack effectively. Here are our favourite Slack tips for staying organised. On our respective gigs we’ve both noticed that many colleagues are not aware of some really useful Slack features, and we wanted to share what we’ve learned. A colleague​ and I chatted recently about how some of our best Slack discoveries really help to keep us organised now that we know how to use them. I also bet you don’t know everything it can do to make your life easier.