While Slack doesn’t have a native tool to delete messages en masse (you can only delete messages manually one by one), there is a third-party extension that can get the job done. What if a coworker is leaving the company and you don’t want IT looking through your private messages while deactivating their account? Or what if you were discussing sensitive information over Slack that you later wanted to be wiped from a channel? If you’re a longtime user, there could even be some ill-timed jokes in your Slack history that could get you canceled. While aging Slack messages aren’t a big deal in most cases, it could be a serious privacy concern. Most folks don’t think about past Slack messages. Instead of lengthy, formal emails between coworkers (that’ll be buried in external email immediately), a private DM is all it takes to get work done.īut as we’re all shooting instant messages and GIFs to each other, we’ve forgotten one important chore: cleaning out DMs and deleting our messages. Follow the README.In many workplaces, Slack has largely replaced email as a daily channel for communication. So you can download latest release from GitHub itself. This extension isn't live on Chrome Web store yet (coz my card isn't accepted by it for paying of the registration amount).

You'll get a notification when someone speaks your alert words.

Make sure to Turn on your captions for extension to know when words are spoken.Add/remove alert words through the popup.It's pretty simple, feel free to follow below steps if you get stuck: You can use it at your own risk, as if you get caught while slacking off at work meetings, I won't be held responsible. This is a pet project I made to know how Chrome extensions work (which proved to be very valuable 😅). Notifications appear when those words are spoken in meeting

Popup interface to add/remove alert words This doesn't recognize the voice in the meeting by itself, that's done by Google when you turn your captions on, so if it doesn't work as shown here, try checking if your voice is recognized by Google. You can set the alert words yourself with your name or any word you want to be notified for. A Chrome Extension that notifies people when certain words are being spoken in a Google Meet Meeting opened in Chrome browser.

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