Tuesday's Tip #45: Insider Teams Tips for @mentions, Bookmarks, Unread & /dnd

See How and Why Teams Experts Use These 4 Tips

Use @ Mentions to see What's Important 

What are @mentions?

@mentions might be new to you. In Teams, it's used to get the specific attention of a person, team or channel. It's most often used in a chat. 

How to Use @mentions

In a chat type, "@" and a name, team or channel.

Why Filter @mentions

In your activity feed, you can filter your @mentions to sort When you have been mentioned. This allows you to filter through the more important to-do's in your activity feed and filter out general activity. 

1. Click Activity
2. Click the Filter icon and the ...
3. Choose @ mentions

Use Bookmarks to Find Things Later

You can bookmark a message or content to save it to easily find later.

1. In a chat, click the "..." and then choose the bookmark icon (Save this message).
   
2. You can find these later by clicking on your name in the upper right-hand corner, and click Saved.
   
   
   
3. You will see all the items you saved.
   
   
   

Use Unread Chats to Remind You 

You can mark chats or items as unread. This might seem obvious, but this can be used to remind yourself to come back to reply or read something later and not let it get lost.

1. In a chat, hover next to the chat, click on "..."
2. Choose, Mark as unread.
   

Find Unread Items

You can see which items are unread, because they appear in bold in your chat window.

In activity, you can also filter for unread items.

/DND to Focus

DND stands for Do Not Disturb. You can use this to change your status so you can work heads down on a project. This will prevent pop-ups and other distractions as well as notify people you don't want to be bothered.

How to set /dnd

1. In the search bar, type "/dnd". This will change your status.
   
   
2. To change your status back, type in "/available".