Index

Guides

• Getting started with Zulip
• Setting up your organization

Using Zulip

Account basics

• Change your name
• Change your email address
• Manage your password
• Edit your settings
• Set your avatar
• Change your default language
• Use 24-hour time
• Joining an organization
• Logging in
• Logging out
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Deactivate your account
• Zulip glossary
• The Zulip browser window

Sending messages

• Send a stream message
• Private messages
• Group private messages
• Format messages using Markdown
• Preview messages before sending
• Message drafts
• Emoji
• Video calls
• Share and upload files
• Manage your uploaded files
• Enable pressing Enter to send
• Verify a message was sent
• Status messages
• @-mention a user
• Write in a different language
• Reply to a message
• Edit or delete a message
• Edit the topic of a message
• Message a stream by email
• Notify everyone on a stream

Reading messages

• Navigation and unread counts
• View the Markdown source of a message
• View the exact time a message was sent
• View an image at full size
• See all images in a narrow
• Collapse a message
• Star a message
• Emoji reactions
• Share a message or conversation
• Advanced search
• View a message's edit history
• Reading by stream or topic
• Private messages and group PMs

People

• Check whether someone is on-line
• Invite another user

Streams & topics

• About streams and topics
• Browse and subscribe to streams
• Create a stream
• View your stream subscriptions
• Add someone to a stream
• Change the stream description
• Rename a stream
• Unsubscribe from a stream
• Make a private stream public
• Make a public stream private
• Organize the Streams sidebar
• Pin a stream
• Change the color of a stream
• Message a stream by email

Notifications

• Mute or unmute a stream
• Mute or unmute a topic
• Set notifications for a single stream
• Desktop notifications
• Email notifications
• Mobile notifications
• Digest emails
• Add an alert word
• Notify everyone on a stream

Tools & customization

• Bots and integrations
• Enable high contrast mode
• Enable night mode
• Enable emoticon translations
• Display the buddy list on narrow screens
• View organization statistics

Apps

• Desktop installation guides
• Tips for Zulip on Windows
• Tips for Zulip on Android
• Zulip in a Terminal

Zulip administration

Organization basics

• Create your organization's profile
• Update your organization's settings
• Link to your Zulip from the web
• Import data from Slack
• Restrict new users by email domain
• Allow joining without an invitation
• Manage who can send invitations
• Set the default language for new users

Organization settings

• Restrict stream creation
• Change who can add custom emoji
• Block image and link previews
• Restrict name and email changes
• Disable message edit history
• Manage editing of old messages
• Require topics in stream messages
• Add custom emoji
• Configure authentication methods
• Add a custom linkification filter

Server settings

• Add a link preview

Users & bots

• Deactivate or reactivate a user
• Deactivate or reactivate a bot
• Make a user an administrator
• Change a user's name
• View all bots in your organization

Stream management

• Delete or archive a stream
• Set default streams for new users
• Rename a stream
• Change a stream's description
• Make a private stream public
• Make a public stream private
• Add or remove users from a stream

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