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Slack Status Icons: How to Personalize your Slack Statuses
Slack is really one of a kind when it comes to icons.
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Published onSeptember 24, 2024
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Slack Status Icons are dozens of numbers and can be used to personalize your statuses. Say you’re on vacation, then you could use the palm tree icon; if you’re on your lunch break, you have different icons for meals and foods that you can use (I go for the burger one, for obvious reasons).
It’s a nice little touch to humanize your presence at work and let colleagues know if you’re active or not and what you’re doing if you’re not available for that meeting.
In many ways, Slack Status Icons help you personalize your experience and get your point across: I’m at lunch and eating a delicious burger, so I’m unavailable. They’re self-explanatory; you don’t have to provide additional context for your colleagues to understand your presence or absence.
As Slack is one of the most popular tools for working (behind Microsoft Teams), it’s important to learn to use the status icons effectively.
How to personalize your Slack Status Icons?
Slack does a wonderful job at letting users set statuses very easily. You’ll need to:
And this is it! This is how you personalize your Slack status with unique icons. Don’t forget thatSlack also lets you add custom-made emojis and icons, that you can use to personalize your experience on the platform highly.
In the comments section below, let us know your favourite icons that you use in Slack.
More about the topics:Business software,Slack
Flavius Floare
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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.
He’s always curious and ready to take on everything new in the tech world, covering Microsoft’s products on a daily basis. The passion for gaming and hardware feeds his journalistic approach, making him a great researcher and news writer that’s always ready to bring you the bleeding edge!
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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.
