Haystack is the most powerful way to locate any files, links, images, docs, videos in your Slack account! All the more, you can locate files and links from other platforms such as Gmail or GDrive.
See how Haystack can help you locate things that are shared between you and your colleagues.
FROM SLACK APP DIRECTORY
How to install from Slack App Directory
1. Go to the Slack App Directory page of Haystack and click “Add to Slack” or “Sign in to install” depending on whether you are logged into your Slack workspace or not. You will be taken to Haystack.
2. Sign in or Sign up to Haystack. If you are already signed in go to “Add integration” and select “Slack”
3. On the Slack integration page click “Next”
4. From Slack’s popup choose the Workspace you want to integrate with and click “Submit”
5. Now choose the public channels you want to automatically sync.
To sync files and links from private channels you will need to invite Haystack’s bot to the private channels in Slack.
You can also just send any files and links from Haystack back to Slack.
FROM HAYSTACK
How to install from Haystack?
1. In the sidebar click the plus button and click “Add integration”
2. From the “Integration Center” choose Slack and click “Next”.
3. On the Slack integration page click “Next”
4. From Slack’s popup choose the Workspace you want to integrate with and click “Submit”
5. Now choose the public channels you want to automatically sync.
To sync files and links from private channels you will need to invite Haystack’s bot to the private channels in Slack.
You can also easily send any files and links from Haystack back to Slack.
SEARCH & SEND TO SLACK
Are your files and links spread out over too many channels and direct messages?
Haystack automatically syncs your Slack files and links to channel specific Haystack folders and matches your search with the most relevant results.
You can also easily send any files and links from Haystack back to Slack.
FILTER
You know the category but aren't sure about the name?
Haystack organizes your contents into links, docs, news, photos and many other categories to help you locate whatever it is, faster.
BROWSE
You have too many messages to scroll through when wanting to find something in a channel?
Haystack mirrors your Slack account’s file structure (channels) to let you browse for files and links in a familiar hierarchy.
CONNECT
You remember who saved or shared something but cannot remember where?
Haystack lets you search and browse across multiple accounts at the same time. All from one place.
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Filter for a spreadsheet in a Slack channel instead of scrolling for ages to find it
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Find your files quicker by filtering for its file type
Instead of asking a colleague where a document is find it based on your colleague’s name
Search Slack conversations, Gmail threads and GDrive folders associated with the same project
Browse old photos you and your family members shared with each other in Gmail
Search for a document based on author when you are not sure which folder it was saved to
Find the link to a movie your friend recommended to you a while back
Favourite a Slack channel you often finding yourself searching in
Find a document based on its message context
Instead of your colleagues asking you where a document is you shared they can find it based on your name
Filter for videos across all your connected platforms
Get instant update on the newest documents created in GDrive
Frequently Asked Questions
How much time do you waste looking for files, images, links etc. that people send you? You might remember the file name but not who sent it. Or you might remember who sent it but not where. People use Haystack to perform quick and powerful cross-searches through their integrated platforms. Haystack can also automatically bookmark both links and files friends or colleagues save or share with each other on various platforms and find what they are looking for more easily and quickly in one place. Haystack has a super clean and simple user interface alongside powerful features. Haystack is suitable for students, busy freelancers or work-teams, small and medium sized companies and any individual or group who would like to spend less time searching for photos, documents, news or other files and links they already have.
We use a multitude of applications for both work and personal reasons and the information we save, share or is shared with us is spread across email, messaging, file sharing, productivity and other tools. In this overloaded world it is easy to feel overwhelmed or not even know where to begin when you want to find something. That’s where Haystack steps in – helping people take control and locate what they are looking for.
With Haystack you can quickly and easily find the photos, documents, news and other files and links from all of your applications based on people, conversations, topics, message context or whatever you can recall more easily in the moment
Haystack allows you to share the link of all the photos, documents, news and other files and links that are synced, making it very convenient to share your content between conversations within a single application or between multiple applications. You don’t have to download or upload anything ever again. It’s just going to make your life so much easier.
Haystack currently integrates with Slack, Gmail and Google drive. Additional integrations such as Messenger, Dropbox, Jira, Trello and many other tools you love will be available soon.
Haystack is free for the first 30 days.
Simply click here to request any features. It will feed into our product backlog which is refined by our product and research team based on usage analytics, user interviews, usability tests and feedback such as yours.
Haystack doesn’t read, use or sell your data and all of the data from your accounts is securely stored on our hosted server and cannot be accessed by unauthorized parties. Our host – Google – one of the world’s largest hosting services, trusted by numerous corporations. All data transport from the client to the server is encrypted.
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