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All the Best Hidden Features on Slack<\/h2>\n
Download Slack<\/a><\/p>\n Slack has all sorts of formatting options that can make your messages pop, including:<\/p>\n Italics<\/em><\/p>\n Bold<\/strong><\/p>\n Strikethrough<\/span><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to find out exactly how to set about formatting your Slack messages.<\/p>\n It is really easy to set reminders in Slack. All you have to do is type in \/remind<\/em> followed by what you want reminding of and when. For example:<\/p>\n \/remind me to shout out yeeee haaaaa in 5 minutes<\/p>\n \/feed subscribe<\/em>\u00a0followed by the URL of the feed you want to follow will have you receiving messages every time your favorite feed posts something new.<\/p>\n An easy way to find out all of Slack\u2019s Quick Commands is to simply type \/ into any text box on the app.<\/p>\n There is a great little plugin for Slack<\/a> that allows you to write Slack messages as famous people. All you need to do is find a suitable image of your chosen celebrity and you\u2019re good to go.<\/p>\n Download Slack<\/a><\/p>\n On Slack, you can make an emoji out of absolutely anything<\/a>.<\/p>\n Have you just spilled your coffee all over your desk? Turn it into an emoji.<\/p>\n Are you soaking wet because you forgot your umbrella? Perfect for an emoji.<\/p>\n If you have administrator privileges, or if your network administrators are liberal with their permissions, you can surprise your coworkers with a custom welcome<\/a> every time they open Slack. Tread carefully with this one.<\/p>\n This is another one to be careful using. You can basically get Slackbot to say whatever you want<\/a>.<\/p>\n Slack allows users to alter the desktop notifications they receive from the app. To do so, go to Preferences > Notifications > Desktop Notification.<\/p>\n Slack\u2019s keyboard shortcuts<\/a> are vital tools for all wannabe Slack ninjas. There are a LOT of shortcuts that put all of Slack\u2019s great features at your fingertips.<\/p>\n Download Slack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Slack, one of the most popular messaging services for business, is full of little, hidden features that can make workflows easier and workdays more productive. Let us have a look at ten of the coolest Slack features you probably don\u2019t know about. You’ll find further info and all the links mentioned in the infographic at … Continue reading “The 10 Coolest Hidden Features on Slack”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":94517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[],"tags":[2695],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-94515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionslack"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328512,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94515\/revisions\/328512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94515"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=94515"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=94515"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=94515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1. Message Formatting<\/h3>\n
2. Set Reminders<\/h3>\n
3. Subscribe to Feeds<\/h3>\n
4. Quick Commands<\/h3>\n
5. Pretend to be Somebody Famous<\/h3>\n
6. Custom Emojis<\/h3>\n
7. Custom Loading Messages<\/h3>\n
8.\u00a0 Customize Slackbot\u2019s Responses<\/h3>\n
9. Desktop Notifications<\/h3>\n
10. Keyboard Shortcuts<\/h3>\n