> Rally Help Center. Index of every page: https://rallywith.ai/help/llms.txt
> This chapter's pages: https://rallywith.ai/help/rally-everywhere/llms.txt

# Rally outside the app

> Use Rally from Slack, email, your iPhone and a web browser, and choose how it tells you what needs you.

So far this book has kept you at your desk, in the Mac app, with a Channel open
in front of you. That is where Rally does its best work, and where you set
everything up. But work has a habit of happening somewhere else. A question
turns up in Slack. A customer replies by email. Someone mentions you while you
are on a train, or a client wants to see one conversation and has no intention
of installing anything.

This chapter is about those places, and Rally meets them from both sides.

You can reach Rally from elsewhere. Hand it work from Slack with a direct
message, an **@Rally** mention, the `/rally` command or a shortcut, and the
finished answer comes back in the same Slack thread. Forward an email into any
Channel, because every Channel has its own email address. Read and reply from
your iPhone. People you share a conversation with can join from an ordinary web
browser.

Rally can also reach you. When someone mentions you or adds you to a Channel,
Rally tells you, on your Mac, on your iPhone or in Slack. If you would rather
not hear about everything the moment it happens, Rally can write you a digest
instead: a short summary of what moved, on the days and at the times you pick.

The thing to hold on to is that these are all doors into the same rooms. A
thread you start in Slack becomes a Channel in Rally. A reply you type on your
iPhone lands in the same conversation your teammates see on their Macs. An
email you forward shows up in the Channel it was addressed to. There is no
separate Slack Rally or phone Rally keeping its own copy. There is one Rally,
and you pick the door.

The doors are not the same size, though, and we think that is right. The Mac
app is the workshop. The others are for following along and joining in, which
is most of what you want to do from a phone in a queue. Creating Spaces and
Sidekicks, connecting tools and changing most settings still happen on the Mac.
Each page that follows says plainly what its door can and cannot do, so you do
not spend an afternoon hunting for a button that lives somewhere else.

> [!NOTE]
> Slack calls its own top-level thing a **workspace**. A Slack workspace is not
> your Rally Organization, even though Rally itself used to call Organizations
> "workspaces" and you may still see the old word here and there. In this
> chapter, "Slack workspace" always means Slack's, and "Organization" always
> means Rally's.

The chapter starts with Slack, because that is where most teams already talk.
Then come email, notifications and the digest, and it ends with the iPhone app
and the browser.