Slack Free Plan Limits: What Happens After 90 Days and One Year?
Slack hides messages past 90 days and may delete them after a year. No personal upgrade — it bills the whole workspace — so keeping your own copy is on you.
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Guides on backing up Slack, owning your data, and getting more out of your archive.
The Best Free HTML Editors, Compared
The best free HTML editors, compared fairly — where W3Schools, PlayCode, HTML-Online, CoffeeCup, Pinegrow, and HTML Tweak each genuinely win.
Best Slack Backup Tools Compared: Official Export, Slackdump, Backupery, Enterprise & Empowia
Official export, Slackdump, Backupery, enterprise backup, or Empowia — an honest, named comparison of Slack backup tools, matched to who you are.
How to Edit an HTML File — Your Real Options
Four ways to edit an HTML file — code, a desktop program, an online editor, or a simple visual tool — with the trade-offs and the easiest pick for non-coders.
Why I choose Empowia to back up & manage my Slack
I already pay for Slack. Two weeks into using Empowia for Slack, it's where I go to find, sort, and keep my own history — and it's a copy that lives on my own computer, not another subscription.
Your word, and what you're owed: a personal to-do list built from Slack
You typed 'yep, on it' and the channel swallowed it. Someone promised to send you a file and never did. Here's how to keep a private list of both — the things you owe, and the things owed to you — pulled straight from your own Slack.
Did we say Thursday or Friday? Settle what you agreed in Slack, on the spot
Someone asks you to confirm a detail you definitely decided weeks ago — and you blank. Here's how to pin down exactly what your team agreed to, with the original message as proof, before you reply.
Your personal Slack archive: every file and link someone sent you, in one place
You know someone sent you that PDF, that Figma link, that spreadsheet — you just can't find where. Here's how to keep your own copy of every attachment and every URL shared with you, all pulled out of Slack and sitting in one place you control.
Slack MCP: Connect Your Slack History to Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT
Learn how Slack MCP lets you connect Slack to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT so you can query your backed-up Slack history from inside the AI tools you already use, all while your archive stays local.
How to capture decisions from Slack (and find every link people share)
Decisions and links are the two things teams lose most in Slack. Here's how Empowia's AI Insights round up a running Slack decision log and a tidy library of every URL — each one linked back to the message it came from.
Set Up Custom AI Extraction for Slack — Pull Exactly the Data You Need
Go beyond the built-in Insights and tell Empowia's AI exactly what to pull out of your Slack. Describe what to gather in your own words, scope it to the right channels, and run it on a schedule so your structured data stays fresh on its own.
Ask your Slack a question in plain language — and get an answer with receipts
Slack search finds messages that contain a word. Asking finds the answer. Here's how to pose a real question to your whole Slack history and get back a written answer, with every claim linked to the message it came from.
The little tasks your team buries in Slack — and how a lead keeps them all moving
Big work gets a ticket. The small stuff — 'can you resize that', 'ping the vendor', 'recheck staging' — just gets said in a channel and forgotten. Here's how a team lead can track every one of those little tasks without opening a project tool.
How I built Empowia for Slack — a tool I made for myself first
The honest story behind Empowia for Slack — why I started with a backup I built for myself, and how each feature came from a specific problem I actually had in my own day.
Empowia vs. the official Slack export: which should you use?
A plain comparison of Slack's built-in export and Empowia for Slack — setup, coverage, and exporting your history to JSON, CSV, or Excel, all-or-part.
How to back up a free Slack workspace before messages disappear
Slack's free plan hides messages after 90 days. Here's how to keep your full history — including private channels and DMs — on your own computer.