
Select Notifications from the sidebar in the pop-up that appears.Select Preferences from the drop-down menu.Click the title of the U-M Slack workspace in which you are currently working.To access your notification preferences in your desktop app: You will find ITS best practices for each notification configuration below. These defaults apply to both desktop and mobile notifications unless you configure your preferences. Someone replies to a thread you're following.
Someone mentions you, notifies a channel you’re in, or uses one of your keywords. Someone sends you a direct message (DM). Tips, Tricks, and Best Practicesīy default, you’ll receive desktop and mobile notifications when: The desktop app offers a more organized and streamlined experience, especially as you begin to join many different U-M Slack workspaces. With Slack, your team is better connected.Note: Although it is possible to access your Slack workspaces from a web browser, we recommend that you install the Slack desktop app on your computer. It’s a place where conversations happen, decisions are made, and information is always at your fingertips. Slack is a collaboration hub for work, no matter what work you do. Voilà! The email is forwarded into Slack where anyone in the channel or direct message you shared it to can see the email content and open attachments. Add a message and include attachments if you’d like. Choose the channel or person you’d like to forward the email to inside of Slack. Open any email and click on the Slack icon in the right-hand side of your inbox.
Start by installing the Slack for Gmail Add-On.
Need to coordinate a response to a customer question? Flag your teammates in Slack and use the email content to set context. Have an idea you want to share with your team? Send it along to a relevant channel with a note about your insights. Email chain getting too noisy? Send it into Slack where you can discuss quickly and move forward. You can add a message and include attachments along with the email as well. The Slack Add-On for Gmail helps you move conversations along by bringing context from an email into a Slack channel or direct message.