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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
7
Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
12
Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Slackbot versus regular bots

As we discussed in Chapter 6, Your Workspace Slackbot, Slackbot is an extremely useful and beneficial tool to your workspace. Working as essentially your digital assistant, Slackbot serves as a quick and easy helper for automated tasks within your Slack channels and direct messages. While Slackbot's skills are varied, they are limited in design. This is where your regular bots come into play.

Bots can range from a simple notifier to interactive, button-based bots that execute programmed commands. The extent to which you can cultivate your bot is limited only by your own capabilities with coding and the advanced nature of this level of technology.

Some of the many features of bots include the following:

  • Have names, profile pictures, and can be found in your directory
  • Are mentioned with the @ symbol in channels and direct messages
  • Post their own messages and upload files
  • Are invited or removed from private and public channels...