Summary

This chapter taught us how to integrate some of our favorite external applications into our Slack workspace. We discovered the Slack App Directory and the thousands of app options and categories it has to offer teams, bettering communication; onboarding; and sharing files, documents, schedules, and even tweets directly in your Slack messages and channels. We discussed some of the best and most popular apps to download and learned how to find the right apps to fit the needs and culture of our workspace. With a wide variety of options at our disposal, we're now going to shift gears to focus on a particular integration to simplify the apps you bring into your workspace.

In the next chapter, we'll take on an even easier way to make this merge possible: Zapier. We'll discover how this integration tool creates workflows, or "Zaps," for your channel, automating them, finding the right plan, and ultimately bringing your outside information and applications...