The article discusses how integrating cloud storage apps with Slack can significantly enhance workplace collaboration. Users can share and discuss documents stored on platforms like Google Drive and Box directly within Slack channels or direct messages, minimizing interruptions from switching apps. It provides a brief guide on how to add such apps to a Slack workspace—emphasizing the necessity of having accounts for these services. The piece also cautions about possible document access settings that could affect functionality, encouraging users to adjust these settings if necessary.
To use any of the apps listed here, you'll need an account (free or paid) for its cloud service. Your fellow team members may also need to have an account on the cloud service (but not always so).
Slack is a powerful tool for collaborative chatting among co-workers, as well as brainstorming, task management, and more. By adding certain third-party apps to your Slack workspace, you can also collaborate on documents that are stored in your cloud accounts.
This can reduce or eliminate the need to switch between Slack and the cloud services' web apps, helping to streamline collaboration.
Note that access settings for your documents in the cloud service may affect how the Slack app works.
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