Best Practices
Favour mobile & desktop notifications:
Generally we recommend you opt out of all of Slack's email notifications because there is no way to customize these notifications by channel, only by the type of notification.
This means it is hard to sift through what notifications are important to you and the ones that are not.
Try a bottom up approach for notifications:
When you first join, all of slack's notifications can be overwhelming and distracting.
Go through and turn off your notifications for most channels except for #announcements.
Then once you have the hang of things you can go back and enable notifications by channel, only for the channels that are relevant to you.
Customize Your Notifications by Channel:
Mute a channel: Right click on a channel name to mute all notifications coming from that channel. On mobile select the channel > click on the channel name > mute channel.
Notification Options: You can further manage your notifications by channel, just right click on the channel name > change notifications. For example If you chose just mentions with out @here & @channel then you will only be notified when someone mentioned you specifically in a post within that channel.
Temporarily pause all notifications:
Need some focus time? A quick an easy way to quiet your notifications is to pause everything temporarily. Select your profile picture in the top right > select pause notifications > select your time frame.
Emails from Slack:
When you first join your SoleSavy Community on Slack if you do not opt out of email notifications you will automatically be opted into all of slack's email notifications.
We recommend you opt out of all of Slack's email notifications because there is not way to customize these notifications by channel only by the type of notification.
Notification's from your community are very important its a better practice to rely on your mobile or desktop notifications.
Your desktop & mobile notifications will be instant and you can customize them to make sure you're only getting the updates that are important to you.
To turn off your email notifications select a slack email at the bottom of the email select "see your account page" .
From your account page on the web you disable all your email notifications or if you like you can choose to only be notified when someone mentions you or DMs you.