Users can connect their Read accounts with Slack in order to unlock powerful features to boost productivity and make their Read content available in Slack. This page provides an overview of these features, with links out to other pages for more details on how to make use of them. These features are available to all Read users, including those on the free plan.
Read’s integration with Slack consists of two distinct features, and you can enable each one independently of the other. You can find these by going to the Integrations page:
Note that for each of these integrations, you must select a single Slack workspace to connect.
Push to Slack
The Push to Slack integration allows users to automatically or manually distribute their meeting notes to Slack. This can be enabled either for just the individual user (under Your Integrations > Messaging > Push to Slack) or for all users within the same Read Workspace (under Workspace > Push to Slack). The Workspace option is only available if you have created a Read Workspace and are the owner of it. See these pages for more details:
- Integrations | Enabling Push to Slack for your account
- Integrations | Enabling Push to Slack for your Workspace
Users can then choose whether to enable automatic distribution for their own meetings using the “Meeting Reports” and "Meeting Pre-Read" setting (under Account Settings > Report Sharing & Notifications). Users can also manually distribute meeting notes done by clicking on the “post to Slack” button at the top right of a meeting report. This article describes the process in more detail:
Slack Sync to Read
The Slack Sync to Read integration allows users to sync their Slack messages with Read, enabling features like Search Copilot and Readouts (topic summary reports). You can enable this integration by connecting Slack under Your Integrations > Slack Sync to Read. This will only give Read access to the messages that you have access to in Slack.
After you connect, Read will begin the sync process by importing your past messages over the last 30 days. Once Read is finished syncing, you'll be able to search and prompt against your Slack messages using Search Copilot. Read will also start generating Readout "topic reports," which contain summaries, key questions, and actions items based on your conversations in Slack, automatically organized into topics based on the content. Going forward, Read will continue to sync your messages from Slack periodically.
You can search and ask questions about your Slack messages directly from Read's Slack app, or from the Search page or search bar that appears throughout Read's web app. You can also use the source filter to restrict your searches to just Slack, or even specific Slack channels:
Readout topic reports appear on the Reports page alongside your meeting reports. It may take up to an hour after first connecting Slack in order to receive a topic report, and after that, they get updated daily. Topic reports generated from Slack will show a Slack icon on the left side. You can use the check boxes at the top left to filter between topic reports, meeting reports, or all reports: