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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

Customizing Slack to suit your team

Each workspace is unique to your company/organization's motives and composition. While it's important to keep etiquette in mind, it's critical that you develop your own workspace culture.

Whether it's by color coding or alphabetical organization, each Slack workspace should be individually designed to create the most optimal working environment for its members through its aesthetic, emojis, and functionality.

Aesthetic

Slack maintains a specific formatting across all its platforms that can become confusing to members with multiple Slack workspaces. This is why Slack offers varying themes and coloring so that you can customize your unique workspace design.

This is where your creative side comes into play. You can match company colors or style with your own Slack workspace by either picking an existing theme or creating one of your own. The following screenshot shows the default color and theme of Slack:

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