How to organize your Slack channels
by Barbara Krasnoff from The Verge - All Posts on (#64ZZ0)
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge If your workplace (or organization, or friends group, or whatever) is anything like mine, and you've used Slack for more than, say, a month, you have no doubt amassed a lot of channels (also known as conversations). This can result in a lot of scrolling - I mean, a lot of scrolling - to find the channel you want to use. You can also spend a lot of time trying to figure out which channels you need to pay attention to now and which ones you can save until later.
Luckily, there are several ways you can organize that long list of channels on the left side of your Slack app to make it at least somewhat easier to deal with. Unluckily, this is only available in paid versions of Slack. Normally, we try to only describe free features; but perhaps...