This will take you to a web page where you can add any variety of images simply by clicking “Add Custom Emoji”. In your desktop app, click on your workspace name in the top left corner of the screen. Luckily Slack makes it relatively easy to customize your emoji options.

Sure, the good people of the Unicode Consortium are doing all they can to keep emojis up-to-date, but what are the odds they’ve got an Ol’ Dirty Bastard icon simmering on the back burner? It’s time to take matters into your own hands. Learn more about Marker, and download the app right here. Those screenshots can also be edited within the Slack app itself. Marker allows you to send your edited image to Slack with one click, and a link to the original page URL is automatically included. Marker is an app that works a lot like Skitch, allowing you to crop and annotate screenshots with just a few clicks but the killer feature is in the app’s Slack integration. Slack isn’t going to fix that problem entirely, but it will make your screenshot workflow a little easier. It’s an all-too-familiar plight for any designer, UXer, or engineer-endless stacks of screenshots cluttering both desktop and mind. In fact, it’s possible to bend the ubiquitous messaging app to your will, customizing and streamlining the experience to create something that’s actually useful.

All too often the incessant ping of Slack can turn your flow state into a state of delirium-but it doesn’t have to be like that.

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