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Every tip is one concrete thing you will do better or faster. Filter by what you use and who you are — or just search.
A notification schedule automatically quiets Slack outside working hours. It leaves you alone in the evening — and shows colleagues when you're reachable.
Operators narrow a search to a specific person, channel, and time period — instead of scrolling through history.
Backticks turn text into code, three of them make a code block. A readable message saves time on both ends.
Ctrl+K
The quick switcher finds a channel, a message, or a person in a few keystrokes. Slack's single most important shortcut.
Middle-clicking a link opens it in a new background tab. Middle-clicking a tab closes it — no need to hit the tiny X.
Two profiles means two sets of bookmarks, logins, history, and extensions. No more signing out and mixing work with personal.
Picture-in-picture keeps a video (a call, a tutorial) in the corner of your screen while you work elsewhere.
Teach your address bar to search specific sites directly — Wikipedia, Maps, your internal wiki. One letter, a space, your query.
Ctrl+Shift+N
Incognito mode is useful well beyond privacy — a second account, testing a site without cache, lending your computer to a coworker.
Type @tabs, @history, or @bookmarks into Chrome's address bar — and you're searching only open tabs, history, or bookmarks.
Ctrl+Tab
Ctrl+Tab moves through tabs in order, Ctrl+1 through 8 jumps to a specific position, and Ctrl+9 jumps to the last tab.
Ctrl+Shift+T
Reopens the last closed tab — and pressing it again brings back the ones before it. Works for whole closed windows too.
Ctrl+L
Jumping to the address bar is the foundation of fast browsing — start typing an address or a search right away.