If you often find yourself sending the content of email from Gmail to Slack, you want to connect the two points with this user-friendly app.
How to add Slack to the Gmail sidebar
If you often find yourself sending the content of email from Gmail to Slack, you want to connect the two points with this user-friendly app.
Did you know that you can open Slack from the Gmail sidebar? Before you get too excited, this is not a Slack sidebar with all functions that can be opened from the same window as Gmail. Instead, you can integrate Gmail into a Slack workspace, so you can easily send the contents of an email to a workspace or a user, without having to do the inefficient task of copying and pasting between apps.
The integration of these two apps only requires a Gmail account and a Slack workspace that you can use to add such an app. Whether or not you can integrate an app depends on how the workspace is configured. If your workspace allows this, this integration is pretty smooth.
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How to install and use Slack for Gmail
- Make sure that you are signed in to both your Gmail and Slack accounts in the browser that you use.
- Go to the G Suite Marketplace and search for Slack for Gmail.
- On the resulting page, click Install and click Continue when prompted.
- You will then be asked to select the correct account. Click Allow to give the app permission to access the required information about your Gmail account.
- Click Done to close the installation process. You should now see a Slack icon in the Gmail sidebar.
- Find and select an email that you want to send to a user or workspace, and then click the Slack icon.
You should now be able to search for the user or workspace and then click the Send To button. The e-mail arrives in the inbox of the user’s direct messages or in the workspace so that everyone can see it.
For anyone who regularly bounces between Gmail and Slack, this app should be considered as a must to increase your Slack efficiency.
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