Personalize your Slack Experience

YOUR PROFILE

• Include a photo of you that shows your face (not Pizza, sorry)

• Include the Slack channels where your work can be found (i.e. internaI-comms)

• ​Set your emoji skin tone​

• Bonus: Include your life story card.

NOTIFICATIONS AND CHANNEL SETTINGS

• To better prioritize channels and direct messages:

  • Use Slack's Section functionality to categorize your convos

  • ​Set message reminders to manage your queue

  • ​Star conversations to mark them as important

  • ​Reduce noise in Slack via customizing notifications in Slack

  • Consistently use a 📌 when referring to pinned Asana or Google projects in the channel

HONOR AND PERSONALIZE YOUR STATUS

• ​Personalize your status​

  • ​Connect Slack to Google Calendar to make the team aware you're in a meeting

  • Utilize preset Slack or Guru statuses and set your status to normalize sharing (e.g. heads down, with kids, on a walk)

  • Self-honor your status: If on vacation, be on vacation; after hours, respond in the morning

  • In turn, recognize that your colleague set a status to explicitly communicate something. It's certainly okay to send them a message, but remember that Slack is asynchronous