slack short cuts and commands

Slack is a useful communication tool. You can have direct chat with a contact, host a group chat, open a channel for topic discussion. It can also be integrated with other tools/apps such as zoom, splunk, jira, ssh, bitbucket, etc, allowing you to host video conference, share screen, share files, run reports etc.

There are magic in slack realm, here are the spell syntax:

Command + / list all the keyboad shortcuts for Slack.

For example:

• command + [    previous channel or direct message window visited.
• command + ]    next channel or direct message window visited
• shift + enter will create a new line in your message
• command + U will upload a file
• command + shift + enter will add a new code snippets
• command + +    will zoom in
• command + -     will zoom out

/ will list the slack apps you can invoke. 

For example:

• /zoom                 will send a zoom meeting to your contacts
• /giphy words      will send a cool image relevant to the word to the chat window
• /poll "Poll question?" "Option1" "Option2"       will create a poll in your chat window