

If you then go to the preferences, you can select to only show "Unreads and starred conversations" in the Sidebar on the left.Īfter you set it up this way and star a few channels, the Sidebar will only show you a nice short list of the channels that are important to you right now, with easy access and without distractions. You can use Slack's built-in "star" feature to mark some channels as your favorites.

This lets you mark things that you want to be able to get back to quickly. Slack has a built-in feature called "Star this channel". Today we'd like to share with you a few tips and strategies we have come up with that allow us to turn Slack into a more effective and warmer tool for our company. Conversations at Balsamiq should not happen in person - if they do, people who work from home will feel like they're missing out, and that’s no bueno. In fact, we designed our new brick-and-mortar office in Bologna to deliberately NOT include any meeting rooms. That's where most of our conversations happen. Slack is our officeĪs a remote-first company, our main "office" is our Slack company account. Do you use Slack for work? So do we! Here are a few of our tricks to turn it into a more efficient, richer tool.
