Slack Markdown Guide

Slack has an extensive and vast list of mrkdwn capabilities which can be extremely useful when sending out your week before, day of, and at the close of snapshot Custom messages. Below you’ll find a list of the more useful mrkdwn options for communicating with your teams and ensuring participation in your snapshot surveys!

• Using _italic_ will produce italicized text

  This is an _italic word_  

  
  

• Using *bold* will produce bolded text

  This is a *bold word*  

  
  

• To adjust text so that it appears as the link from the URL, you can do:

  <http://www.example.com|This message *is* a link>  

  
  

• You can link to a specific channel in your message like this:

  Why not join <#C024BE7LR>  

  
  

  You can get a channel’s ID from its settings screen:
  
  

  

  
  
  

• Similar to linking to a channel, you can mention a specific user with their member ID:

  Hey <@U06HZ8TGXMH>, thanks for submitting your report!  

  
  

  You can get a user’s ID from their Slack profile:
  
  

  

  
  
  

• If you have user groups, you can mention them using this syntax:

  Hey <!subteam^SAZ94GDB8>, there's a new task in your queue.  

  
  

  You can get the sub-team’s group ID like this:
  
  

  

  
  
  

To add even more such as a date, strikethroughs, emojis, and more, check out this Slack article.