Slack It has kept our offices and organizations running smoothly since 2013. It hasn’t completely replaced email, but it has definitely had an impact on the business teams we work with.
The software has been around for over a decade, and with the busyness of everyday life, you can be forgiven for not keeping track of all its features. With that in mind, I thought it would be helpful to highlight four of the most useful features Slack has gotten recently.
From canvases to lists, you should be able to leverage at least one of these tips to improve your Slack experience. The time you save will allow you to focus your attention back on clearing your inbox.
Create a Canvas
Open Slack on the web or desktop and click: more Click on the link on the left and select canvas: Then, you can create new documents within Slack by combining text, images, links to other areas of Slack, file attachments, and more. It’s like Slack has Google Docs or Notion built into it, and you can use Canvas in all the ways you want.
At the most basic level, you can just write down some notes that you need to keep in mind. If you’re going on vacation and need to leave instructions on how everything will work while you’re away, you can save them in a Canvas document instead of leaving them in a channel or conversation thread.
But with the ability to add rich media and other elements, you can easily upgrade Canvas to create a team newsletter, product brief, or technical documentation. Sharing, tagging, and collaboration tools are built right into Slack Canvas functionality, so you can easily grant editing permissions to others on your team so they can work together.
there is canvas Buttons in the top right corner of Slack channels and Slack conversations give you more ways to use the feature. You can use these canvases to, for example, jot down important notes in a chat or create a checklist document that everyone in a specific channel can reference.