Many people fail to understand the importance of setting up a Slack Out of Office status before leaving for their vacation. There is nothing left on your checklist, except for one last thing - you still haven’t set up your Slack Out of Office status. You’re all set and ready to go on vacation. You can also adjust the settings to give yourself a chance to focus and spend quality time away from work.ĭo you snooze your notifications on Slack? When is your time off? Share your experiences in the comments section below.Picture this: the day is finally here. The notification settings give you just the right amount of freedom but allow your colleagues to reach you in case of an emergency. Thankfully, the creators of Slack have thought of everything. Switch the toggle next to Mute channel to the right.Tap on the channel’s name on top of the screen.You’ll still see new messages, but you won’t receive notifications about them. The muted channel will appear at the bottom of the list of channels you’re a part of.

If you want to be a part of a channel, but don’t want to receive notifications about new messages, you can mute that particular channel. Navigate through the options to customize your notifications.Choose Notifications from the list of options.Tap the You tab at the bottom right corner of the screen.Also, you can decide what to do with your notifications if you’re inactive on desktop – send them to your mobile phone or your email. On the next screen, you can choose what you want Slack to notify you about, what your keywords will be, set the Do Not Disturb times, and pick a sound for your Slack notifications.

Choose Preferences and then Notifications.

Click on your team’s name in the top left corner.

For instance, you can change what you want to be notified about, or the sound of your Slack notifications. You can use notification settings to customize your own.

Someone uses your keyword (about topics you’re interested in).

Someone messages the whole channel you’re in (using or You have a Slackbot reminder.

Someone mentions you in a message within a channel.

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