Go to Slack’s website and enter your email address to sign up Choose a name for your Slack team (ex Workshop Talk) Edit the URL to your Slack team (ex https://workshoptalk.slack.com) Choose a username for yourself Enter emails of associates you’d like to invite to join your Slack team Your Slack team chat will then load in a browser window Go through the brief tutorial that appears next to learn the basics
To send a notification to everyone in the channel, type “@channel” To send a notification to a person in a channel, type “@username” Type “@here” to only notify people who are online and active To open a new channel, type “/open” To drop out of a channel, type “/leave” To hide all images and GIFs in a channel, type “/collapse” Make your own custom slash commands by going to this URL
The Quick Switcher: Skip from channel to channel with ⌘/Ctrl+K. Need to quickly search the channel you’re in? Press ⌘/Ctrl+F to search. Send something too soon? Press the up key to edit your last message. Sign in to multiple teams. Click team name, then Sign in to another team. Type “/keys” to open the keyboard shortcuts dialog
