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Pros of Outline
Pros of Slack
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      Easy to integrate with
    • 876
      Excellent interface on multiple platforms
    • 849
      Free
    • 694
      Mobile friendly
    • 690
      People really enjoy using it
    • 331
      Great integrations
    • 315
      Flexible notification preferences
    • 198
      Unlimited users
    • 184
      Strong search and data archiving
    • 155
      Multi domain switching support
    • 82
      Easy to use
    • 40
      Beautiful
    • 27
      Hubot support
    • 22
      Unread/read control
    • 21
      Slackbot
    • 19
      Permalink for each messages
    • 17
      Text snippet with highlighting
    • 15
      Quote message easily
    • 14
      Per-room notification
    • 13
      Awesome integration support
    • 12
      Star for each message / attached files
    • 12
      IRC gateway
    • 11
      Good communication within a team
    • 11
      Dropbox Integration
    • 10
      Slick, search is great
    • 10
      Jira Integration
    • 9
      New Relic Integration
    • 8
      Great communication tool
    • 8
      Combine All Services Quickly
    • 8
      Asana Integration
    • 7
      This tool understands developers
    • 7
      XMPP gateway
    • 7
      Google Drive Integration
    • 7
      Awesomeness
    • 6
      Replaces email
    • 6
      Twitter Integration
    • 6
      Google Docs Integration
    • 6
      BitBucket integration
    • 5
      Jenkins Integration
    • 5
      GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback
    • 5
      Guest and Restricted user control
    • 4
      Clean UI
    • 4
      Excellent multi platform internal communication tool
    • 4
      GitHub integration
    • 4
      Mention list view
    • 4
      Gathers all my communications in one place
    • 3
      Perfect implementation of chat + integrations
    • 3
      Easy
    • 3
      Easy to add a reaction
    • 3
      Timely while non intrusive
    • 3
      Great on-boarding
    • 3
      Threaded chat
    • 3
      Visual Studio Integration
    • 3
      Easy to start working with
    • 3
      Android app
    • 2
      Simplicity
    • 2
      Message Actions
    • 2
      It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC
    • 2
      So much better than email
    • 2
      Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams
    • 2
      Great interface
    • 2
      Great Channel Customization
    • 2
      Markdown
    • 2
      Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations
    • 1
      Great Support Team
    • 1
      Watch
    • 1
      Multi work-space support
    • 1
      Flexible and Accessible
    • 1
      Better User Experience
    • 1
      Archive Importing
    • 1
      Travis CI integration
    • 1
      It's the coolest IM ever
    • 1
      Community
    • 1
      Great API
    • 1
      Easy remote communication
    • 1
      Get less busy
    • 1
      API
    • 1
      Zapier integration
    • 1
      Targetprocess integration
    • 1
      Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock
    • 1
      Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT
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      I was 666 star :D
    • 1
      Dev communication Made Easy
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      Integrates with just about everything
    • 1
      Very customizable
    • 0
      Platforms
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    Cons of Outline
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      • 13
        Can be distracting depending on how you use it
      • 6
        Requires some management for large teams
      • 6
        Limit messages history
      • 5
        Too expensive
      • 5
        You don't really own your messages
      • 4
        Too many notifications by default

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      What is Outline?

      It is the fastest wiki and knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, feature rich, markdown compatible and open source. Team wiki, documentation, meeting notes, playbooks, onboarding, work logs, brainstorming, & more.

      What is Slack?

      Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.

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