Mastering Slack Efficiency: Leveraging the Power of Saved Items

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I use Slack every day. It’s my go-to method of communication with clients.

For those clients that don’t bother with Slack (or a similar tool) , I find communication has become tedious and inefficient. That’s only part of the reason why Slack has become so important for teams, organizations, and even families all over the globe.

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Slack is not only efficient, but it’s also flexible. You can use the app for years and find there are helpful features that have slipped past your purview.

One such feature is called Saved items and it’s exactly what you think it is… a section of the platform that allows you to save messages from channels, threads, and even direct messages to a special location in the left navigation where you can go back and view the saved item at any time.

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I’ve found this to be a great way to ensure I don’t forget to respond to something or have a link or snippet of text for later usage.

Saved items is a very handy feature and everyone should be using it on Slack.

Let me show you how it’s done.

How to use Slack Saved items to improve your workflow

Requirements

The only thing you’ll need to use the Saved items feature is a valid Slack account. And since the feature is available for both free and paid accounts, you can use either. The Saved items feature also works on both desktop and mobile apps, so it doesn’t matter which platform you use. In other words, Saved items is available to one and all (so long as you’re on Slack).

That’s it. Let’s see how the Saved items feature works.

1. Open the desktop Slack app

To save to the Saved items section on the desktop app, the first thing to do is open the desktop Slack app, sign in (if necessary), and navigate to a workspace, channel, or thread.

2. Locate the item to save

Once you’re in a workspace, DM, or thread, locate the item you want to save.

3. Add the item to Saved items

Hover your cursor over the item to be saved and a popup will appear. In that popup, you should see an icon directly to the left of the three-dot menu that looks like a bookmark.

Click that icon to save the item to the Saved items section. Any item that has been saved will have a yellow background to indicate it has been added to the Saved items section and will also contain a small red bookmark icon.

Saving an item to the Slack Saved items section.