Talk with your team.Move the work forward.

01Conversations

The right people.A shared place.

Give each project a channel. Bring a few teammates into a group, or write to someone directly. Let the conversation grow with the work.

• Direct messages and named group conversations
• Public and private channels, with subchannels
• Member permissions and group-to-channel conversion

02Threads

Give a discussion room.Bring it to a conclusion.

Open a thread beneath a message. Name the discussion, follow its replies and mark it resolved when the team reaches an answer.

• Follow, unfollow or mute individual threads
• Participants, unread replies and recent activity
• Resolve, reopen and also send a reply to the channel

03Messages to tasks

Someone said it.Now someone owns it.

Turn a message into a task while the context is fresh. Keep the original conversation attached, so the next step has a clear starting point.

• Create a task from an existing message or use /task
• Assign mentioned people when writing in task mode
• Link existing tasks with # and open the connected task card

Available in channels with Tasks enabled.

04Writing

Make the point.Make it clear.

Give a longer update some structure. Highlight the important line, add a list of next steps or share code in its own block.

• Bold, italic, strikethrough, lists and quotes
• Links, inline code and code blocks
• @mentions, autocomplete and saved text drafts

05Message actions

Keep the useful parts.Keep their context.

Correct a message, check what changed, or pin a decision for the channel. Forward the relevant messages when another team needs the context.

• Reply, copy, edit and delete your messages
• Edit history and pinned messages
• Forward one or several messages with their source

06Files & images

Show what you mean.Right in the conversation.

Drop the proposal, screenshot or video beside the message that explains it. Preview the file and mark up an image before you send it.

• Multiple attachments, drag and drop, and clipboard paste
• Image galleries, video playback, PDF and document previews
• Image editing, file downloads and link previews

07Voice messages

Some things areeasier to say.

Record the explanation in your own voice. Pause and continue recording, then let your teammate listen at the pace that works for them.

• Record, pause, resume and send
• Seek, download and listen at 1×, 1.5× or 2×
• Dictate text in supported web browsers

08Reactions, GIFs & stickers

A little personality.A shared understanding.

A quick reaction can say received, agreed or well done. Add a GIF, or keep a personal collection of images you use again and again.

• Emoji reactions and the people behind them
• Emoji search, shortcuts and a GIF picker
• Upload stickers or save an image or GIF from chat

09Translation

Write in your language.Stay in the conversation.

Read incoming messages in your chosen language. Translate your own reply before sending, review the wording and make it yours.

• Translate on demand or automatically per channel
• Show the original and inspect team translations
• Preview and edit an outgoing translation

Translation requires a configured provider and enabled translation settings.

10Polls

Put the optionsto the team.

Choose a date, agree on a direction or collect preferences. Ask the question in the same conversation and watch the responses come together.

• Create a poll with /poll and 2–10 options
• Single or multiple choices, with an emoji for each option
• Change your vote; see percentages and participants

11Search & history

Find the decision.Read the conversation.

Remember who sent it, roughly when, or just a word? Narrow the search and open the result with the messages around it.

• Search message text and attachment names
• Filter by sender and date range
• Highlighted matches, surrounding messages and a jump to the latest

12Read receipts & presence

See who has caught up.Know where you left off.

See whether an update has reached your teammates. Read receipts, typing indicators and a last-read marker make the conversation easier to follow.

• Sent and read indicators in direct messages
• Per-person readers and unread message counts
• Typing, availability and the last-read position

13Bots & integrations

Bring updates in.Keep the work connected.

Bring bot and integration updates into the channel. Open the source, use a message action or take an integration card to the assistant for the next step.

• Bot, API and webhook messages in the channel
• Structured cards, source links and action buttons
• Assistant handoff and an API-message visibility switch