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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
Book Image

Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By: Moshe Markovich

Overview of this book

Slack is an online communication tool that allows workplace teams to collaborate efficiently, effectively, and securely. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. As a developer, you can use Slack to create tools such as bots that handle and maintain routine and time-consuming tasks. If you’re looking to set up a Slack workplace or build a Slack bot or app, this is the book for you. In this book, you’ll explore scenarios that show you how to set up a Slack workplace, build a Slack bot, or integrate your favorite tools. You’ll also learn how Slack can help you create a more collaborative, efficient, and coordinated work environment from any location. As you advance through the chapters, you'll find out how to manage your tasks and boost your business productivity by automating the trivial tasks. You'll also cover more advanced features such as using a Slack bot to complete tasks, including automating message responses and accessing personal reminders. By the end of this Slack book, you'll have learned how to use Slack effectively to communicate with your team and build bots and have gained a solid understanding of how the platform can help you to progress in your industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Slack Overview
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Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
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Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Summary

In this chapter, we discovered Slackbot. Bots are a complicated mechanical tool to understand if you’re not familiar with the concept. Coding isn’t an easy task. While you may not become an expert at creating code for your bots right away, you can now say that you’ve mastered how to create one, integrate it into your workspace, and understand what it is and how it benefits you and your company while working in Slack. We learned how to answer commonly asked questions, customize replies and exchanges, and integrate bots into your threads. We’ve laid the groundwork for getting your foot in the door with Slackbot and its endless possibilities. Now, we’ll begin to bring in outside apps to further complicate, yet expand, the boundaries and capabilities of your workspace.

In the next chapter, we’ll discover how to bring some of your favorite applications such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Trello, and so on directly into your Slack workspace...