Get notified about topics that you care about

 What you'll learn in two minutes or less: How to set up keywords so that you'll get notified about topics that you care about in channels that you've joined.

Stay on top of projects that you’re working on and get notified whenever there’s a conversation about ‘project xyz’ (or ‘puppies!’) in your Slack workspace.

 

Go for it!

  1. From your desktop, click on your profile picture in the top right.
  2. Select Preferences from the menu to open your notification preferences.
  3. Under My keywords, enter the words or phrases that you’d like to be notified about. inputting keywords into slack notification preferences

Whenever someone uses one of your keywords in a channel that you’ve joined, you’ll receive a notification and see the keyword highlighted in yellow. Here's an example of what it could look like: getting notified when a teammate sends a message in a channel about a project called unicorn

Learn more: Visit our article about configuring your Slack notifications.