A shared board for messages worth keeping
- Trigger
- 📌:pushpin:
- Lands in
- The team Pinboard
- Setup
- 1 min
- Needs
- Via invited to the channel
Pinned to the team board
“We are shipping the annual plan on the 14th, not the 7th.”
- Pinned by
- @aurellia
- Expires
- in 14 days
- Tag
- launch
- Attachments
- 1 screenshot
When the lifespan runs out the pin archives itself, so nobody has to remember to clean the board.
Pin a message in three taps
Every pushpin variant triggers the pinboard, and you can also use the Pin to pinboard message shortcut. A confirmation step means an accidental reaction never clutters the board.
Add a pushpin reaction to any message. Viably posts a confirmation prompt in the thread, so the pin only lands once you confirm it.
Confirm from the prompt to open a short modal where you choose how long the pin should live and, optionally, tag it.
The message lands on your team's shared Pinboard, viewable from the dashboard, until its lifespan ends.
Pins expire, so the board stays current
Every pin has an expiry. When its lifespan ends the pin is auto-archived, so it leaves the active board without ever being deleted and the board always reflects what is currently relevant. The default is 14 days and the maximum is 365.
A pin can become real work
A pin carries more than text. It keeps the context around it, and it can become real work.
Add a tag when you pin and the board stays filterable, grouping by project, topic, or team without anybody maintaining a folder structure.
Images in the pinned message are saved to the board too, so screenshots and diagrams stay attached. Videos are skipped.
A pin that turns out to be real work converts into an assignable task in place, so the board feeds your backlog instead of competing with it.
The /pinboard page shows every active pin for the workspace, with its tag, author, and remaining lifespan.
Slack pins accumulate until somebody remembers to clear them, which is why most channel pin lists are months out of date. Every Viably pin carries a lifespan chosen when you pin it, and archives itself when that runs out, so the board reflects what matters now.
It leaves the active board and moves to the archive, where it stays searchable. Nothing is deleted, so an expired pin is still there when somebody goes looking for the decision it recorded.
Yes. Any pin can be converted into an assignable task with an owner and a due date, so the thing everybody agreed was important stops being a note on a board and becomes something somebody owns.
Anybody in the channel can pin by reacting, and the pin only lands once they confirm the prompt Viably posts, which keeps stray reactions from cluttering the board.
Pin your first message with a reaction. The pinboard is on the free plan and needs no setup beyond inviting Via to the channel.
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