Even if you use Fleep daily for team chat, project communication, for managing your emails, or all of the above, you probably don’t use all of its functionality. Which is fine — as long as it gets the job done, right?
Well, if you’re using Fleep a lot, you might as well try to make the most of it. Without further ado, here are 14 handy less-known and hidden features in Fleep to elevate your experience…
1. Add any character as a reaction
This may seem a bit random, but you can add any character or number as a message reaction in the Fleep iOS app. Long story short, our iOS developer Erik decided to build our emoji reactions in a way where you can also use the regular keyboard when adding a reaction.
Instead of fixing it, we’ve embraced it as a hidden feature. And why not — you can use it in many ways, and leave your team members wondering just how you do that…
2. Set a conversation avatar with an emoji
One of my personal favorites, this little trick is a great way to customize any conversation. Just copy and paste an emoji to the beginning of the conversation’s topic, and it becomes the conversation’s avatar in your conversation list:
3. Assign tasks to people with drag and drop
Fleep Tasks are a great way to track to-dos within the conversations where discussions take place and decisions are made. We’ve built a handy way to assign tasks quickly on the desktop versions: simply drag and drop an existing assignee to the assignee placeholder on a different task. Here’s how:
4. Navigate quickly with shortcuts
Everyone has their favorite keyboard shortcuts in Fleep. For example, our CEO Henn loves using Cmd + Alt + Left and Right arrows to navigate between recently opened conversations. Others love using Cmd + G to quickly activate the Search (on the Left pane conversation list), and then search and open conversations from there.
Check out a full list of Fleep keyboard shortcuts.
5. Use quick commands
Chat commands are a great way to quickly do actions that would otherwise require several clicks. For example, you can quickly create a task with /task, a pinned message with /pin, add someone with /add and so on. You can type a forward slash in the message box and a popup menu with the list of quick commands will appear!
See the full list of quick commands in Fleep.
6. Search and find any Fleep user
As Fleep is a network, you can communicate with any other Fleep user. To search and find any other person you know is using Fleep, simply type their name into the search bar at the top of the conversation list and click on “Search for users”. All matching results will then be shown!
Read more about user search in Fleep.
7. Choose to use Fleep emoticons — or only emoji
If you’re anything like the creator of emoticons and think the yellow-faced emoji are ugly, you might want to try out using Fleep emoticons. All you need to do is open your account Preferences and configure the setting for Fleep emoticons. Now, you’ll be able to see and use the minimalist blue Fleep emoticons!
Read more about the Fleep emoticons in this blog post.
8. Get a daily weather forecast in a Fleep conversation
There’s a super simple IFTTT applet for this — you can either send today’s weather forecast to Fleep or send tomorrow’s forecast to Fleep. I use it to receive the weather forecast in a dedicated chat every day at 7am.
Just remember to change your location in the Weather applet on IFTTT if you’re traveling!
Read more in the Fleep-IFTTT integration blog post.
9. Set yourself a reminder
This is another handy thing you can do with the IFTTT integration — set a reminder that recurs on certain days at a certain time of the day. In our team, for example, we have configured one to remind everyone when our weekly meeting is about to start:
10. Talk to yourself
Yes, you can have a conversation with yourself in Fleep. Use it for personal notes, as a personal tasklist, to save links or files, or for anything else you wish! After all, only you will be able to see it.
To create a monologue, just start a new conversation and do not add anyone else to the conversation. The conversation will be named “Monologue with myself”, but you can rename it to be anything.
11. Organize your conversations however you wish
You can use conversation labels to organize your conversations. Wish to see all of your team’s conversations grouped together? Sure, just enable the team’s label. Want to group all 1:1 conversations together? Yes, you can.
Would prefer to see email conversations grouped separately from Fleep-Fleep conversations? No problemo.
Want to see labels in a different order on the conversation list? Reorder them.
… you get the point.
Read more about conversation labels in this blog post: Manage your Fleep conversations with labels.
12. Edit your messages
You may already know this one. But just in case you don’t, it’s really, really useful. Hitting the Up key (when the message box is active) will automatically let you edit your last message — or you can choose Edit from the message actions menu.
So, you made a typo? No problem. Edit away! You can also delete messages from the message actions — in case, say, you accidentally typed and sent message meant for another conversation.
13. Format your messages
Like the previous one, this may not be news for you. Here’s a few ways in which you can format your messages: putting *asterisks* around something will make it bold. Putting _underscores_ around it make it italic.
See all Fleep text formatting options here.
14. Create and manage email lists
This may not be cool as other features highlighted in this post, but it is definitely a power feature. You create and manage electronic mailing lists that any participant can also post (email) messages to.
All you need to do is create a conversation with the email addresses (and Fleep users), choose to add email members as email participants in the popup that appears and then make sure the Email list behavior has been enabled in the conversation settings. And voilà, you can send emails to the list!
The email lists have been put to good use in Fleep for different communities where everyone does not wish to sign up to Fleep. Email list setting makes sure the experience of such mixed conversations with Fleep and email users are enjoyable to use.
Read more here: Introducing email list behavior in Fleep!
As always, if you have any questions or feedback, let us know at support@fleep.io. Let’s also stay in touch through our social media channels. We’re on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
