Star a Slack Message to Create a Trello Card, Todoist Task, Basecamp To-Do and More

Team communication tool Slack now offers two new Triggers, including a highly-requested "New Starred Message." Now when you star a message—whether it be in a public or private channel, including @slackbot—you can trigger activity in another app. Use this added "New Starred Message" to create tasks elsewhere, kick off an email to a colleague or keep a running list of starred messages in a Evernote note or Google Sheets spreadsheet.

A "New User" Trigger is also now available on Slack, giving you the ability to quickly welcome new members of a Slack group, keep a log of them elsewhere or email them a welcome note after they've joined.

Related: "Slack Everything: How to Turn Your Team's Communication App Into Central Command"

Also new for Slack: You now have the ability to upload a file when using the "Create New Message" Action.

To do so, just select the image URL provided by the Trigger service, such as the image URL of an Instagram photo.

To check out dozens of ways to use these new Slack additions, see our Slack Zapbook page.