Focus on what matters to you

If you receive a steady stream of emails, chats, and calls, it may be difficult to focus on work that matters most.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Slack to:

  • Organize your conversations
  • Keep up with work that’s relevant to you
  • Remind yourself about important messages

 

Organize your conversations

As work changes over time, you can organize conversations in ways that work for you. Star channels and direct messages (DMs), or if you use Slack on a paid plan, create custom sections within your sidebar.

Try it: Open a channel or DM and click its name in the conversation header, then click the  star icon to add the conversation to the starred section of your sidebar.

 

Keep up with work that’s relevant to you

You can configure your notifications and leave conversations to help you keep up with work that's most relevant to you.

Customize your notifications

Leave a channel

Choose what you're notified about, set up keyword notifications, and more from your notification preferences.

 

Try it: Set a notification schedule to only receive notifications at certain times.

If you join a channel to ask a question, you can leave the channel after you get the information you're looking for. Clicking on the channel name from the conversation header where you can select Leave channel from the About tab

Try it: Open a channel and click its name in the conversation header, then click Leave channel. Join the channel again if you need.

 

Remind yourself about important messages

If you're worried about forgetting important messages, you can put your mind at ease by setting reminders for yourself in Slack. Set a reminder so that you’ll be notified about a message later. setting a reminder from a message in Slack

Try it: To set a reminder, hover over a message and click the  three dots icon, then select Remind me about this.