Use June in Slack

Add June to your Slack workspace and talk to it where your team already works: in a direct message for your own things, or in a channel thread when the work is shared.

On the Integrations page, open Slack.

If you administer an organization, choose under Belongs to whether the workspace is yours (Just me) or the organization's. Without an organization you administer there is no choice: the workspace is yours.

Choose Add to Slack and approve June for your workspace. Slack sends you back to June, with your Slack account linked to your June account, unless that Slack account is already linked to another June account; unlink it in that account's Settings first.

Open a direct message with June in Slack, or mention @June in a channel.

June is not in the Slack Marketplace; adding it from the Integrations page is the only way in.

Direct messages and channels

• In a direct message, June answers every message, with your own context, as in a chat on the web.
• In a channel, June answers only when someone mentions it. Mentioned partway through a thread, it first reads up to 50 replies from before the mention, as text without their files, and skips messages from people outside your workspace. From then on it follows that thread: it reads the later replies, and answers again when it is mentioned again.
• While June is working, mention it again to steer the reply it is writing.

While it works, Slack shows that June is typing, its reply arrives as it writes, and its steps show as they run. Once the reply is done, Slack's preview of it, in the Threads list for example, starts with June's answer, not with the names of its steps.

Steps that need your approval

Before June sends an email from your personal email account, sends a Teams message or creates a calendar event that invites someone, it shows you a card in the thread that only you can see. The card shows exactly what will happen: the account, every recipient or attendee, the time and the whole message. A message too long for the card comes to you as a file in your direct messages with June. Everyone else in the thread sees only that June is waiting for you to approve a request.

• Approve runs that one step, once, as shown, and Deny stops it. Your card then says what happened, the note in the thread says who decided, and June replies in the thread.
• Only the person whose message led to the step can decide it, because it runs on their connection.
• Your next message to June in the thread cancels a card you left open, and so do 24 hours.
• Slack can approve only these three steps. A Gmail send or draft, and a change to a Google Drive file, Doc, Sheet or Slides deck, need your approval in June on the web or in the app: June sends or changes nothing from Slack, and the thread gets a short note saying so.

A step that needs your confirmation has the details.

Who can use it

That depends on who the workspace belongs to:

• A workspace that is yours (Just me): only you. Anyone else who asks June there is told to ask you to connect the workspace to an organization.
• A workspace that belongs to an organization: any full member of the Slack workspace who links a June account. Someone who has not linked one yet and mentions June gets a direct message with a link to connect, so the link never lands in the channel. Linking makes them a member of the organization, and members can read its public channel threads on the web. Direct messages and private channels stay with the people in them.

Memory in Slack

In a direct message June uses your personal memory, the same one as on the web. In a channel it keeps memory for the room, shared by every thread in that channel, and it does not save personal facts there; tell it those in a direct message.

In Slack, June saves a memory only when someone asks it to remember something; it does not look back over the conversation on its own as it does on the web. Which memory each place reads and writes has the details.

What June does not do in Slack

• It does not show Slack conversations on the web or in the app: neither lists them. Reply in Slack.
• It does not work for guests, or for people from other organizations in a shared channel.