# Find messages in Slack based on a date or date range

> Two quick ways to find a conversation in Slack based on a known date or date range.

Source: https://curiouslychase.com/posts/find-messages-in-slack-based-on-a-date-or-date-range/

I often find myself needing to find a conversation that happened on a specific date in [Slack](https://curiouslychase.com/tools/slack/) (a critical part of my [digital tool stack](/tools/digital)) but can't remember keywords from the conversation or who all was in the conversation.

**Here are two quick ways to find a conversation in Slack based on a known date or date range.** 

# Jump to date via UI

I can usually remember _around_ the time something happened (or use GitHub merge information) and I'll want to find a conversation that happened in Slack around it.

There's an easy way to **Jump to date** within a channel or direct message:

- Open the channel or direct message where you want to jump to date
- Find _any_ date in the channel or direct message
- Click it
- Select **Jump to a specific date**
- This will give you a date picker
- Select the date (or around the date) you want

![Jump to a specific date in Slack](/img/Pasted%20image%2020220725171217.png)

# Search all messages in all channels or direct messages by range

If you can't quite remember which channel or specific day a conversation happened but remember it happened within a range, you can use Slack's **Search feature**.

Let's say you remember you had a conversation in the first week of July of 2022.

- select the search bar in the top of the Slack UI
- type `after:2022-07-01 before:2022-07-05` and hit enter

This will return all results _after_ July 1st and _before_ July 5th.