I’ve been using Slack for years and have always found it to be a (mostly) efficient means of communicating and collaborating. Even though the “out-of-the-box” experience is fairly well thought out, there are ways you can make it even more effective.
With just a few quick customizations, you can have Slack looking and behaving like a well-oiled communication machine.
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The tweaks I’m going to show you only apply to the desktop application, as the mobile version of Slack doesn’t offer nearly the configuration options you’ll find on the standard application. I will demonstrate this with Slack v4.41.105 running on Pop!_OS Linux, but the operating system won’t matter — so long as it’s a desktop OS.
With that said, let’s get to the customizations.
1. Notifications and keywords
The first thing we’ll focus on is notifications and keywords. There really isn’t much to configure for notifications, but you …