Message your team

Start a direct message or a group

1. 1Click Chat in the sidebar, then New.
2. 2Search for people and tick them.
3. 3One person: click Start Conversation. If you already have a chat with them, it opens.
4. 4Two or more: type a Group Name and click Create Group.

• To add people to a group later, click + (Add members) next to the avatars at the top of the chat.
• In a project, the Chat tab is the project's own chat for everyone in it. It also appears in your Chat list.

Send messages and files

• Type in Type a message... (@ to mention) and press Enter. Typing @ lists people to mention; Assistant is there too and answers in the chat for everyone.
• Click + (Add to message) for Photo or video or File, or drag files into the chat: up to 10 files per message.
• Hover a message to Reply (it quotes the message), Add reaction, or Edit and Delete your own.
• Your messages show Delivered, then Seen once everyone has read them.

Send a message later

1. 1Type your message.
2. 2Click + and choose Send later.
3. 3Pick Tomorrow at 9:00 AM, the next weekday at 9:00 AM, or Choose a custom time.

• The message is sent from your browser tab, so keep Workel open until then. Messages with attachments can't be scheduled yet.

Find and organise chats

Threads, pinning a single message and muting one chat aren't in the web app yet. To pause every notification, see notifications.

• The tabs at the top of the list show All, Unread, Pinned or Groups. Search messages filters your conversations; Search in chat finds a message inside one.
• Right-click a chat to Pin chat, Mark as unread or Open as popup, a small window that stays open while you work.
• Owners and Admins can rename a group or delete a chat from Chat options at the top of it.
• On Free, chats show the last 30 days, and Search in chat looks back as far. Older messages are hidden, not deleted, and come back when you upgrade.