Turn Slack messages into owned tasks
- Trigger
- 📋:clipboard:
- Lands in
- Thread, plus the Tasks board
- Setup
- 1 min
- Needs
- Via invited to the channel
Ship the changelog for the annual plan
Created by @evelyn from this thread
- Owner
- @samuel
- Due
- Friday
- Status
- In progress
- Bounty
- 3 medals
At 11am on the due date, Via posts a follow-up in this channel tagging the owner.
Add the clipboard reaction to any message. Viably opens a task modal pre-filled with the message text, so the request becomes a task without a copy-paste.
Open Slack's message shortcut menu and pick Create a Task to open the same modal from any message, including ones you cannot react to.
Describe it: “@Via create a task for @sam to ship the changelog by Friday”. Via fills in the title, assignee, and due date for you.
From created to done
A task moves through three states, each driven by a button on the Slack card. The card stays editable and is always closable, so a task never gets stuck.
An unassigned task is up for grabs, so anyone can claim it from Slack and take ownership. Assigned tasks skip straight to the next step for whoever owns them.
The owner marks the task in progress, signalling to the team that it is actively being worked on. The card updates in place.
Close the task from the Slack card at any point. If the task carries a medal bounty, the assignee is paid on completion.
Leave the assignee empty and the task becomes claimable by anyone in the channel, which suits shared queues where whoever has capacity picks it up. Assign it to someone specific to make ownership explicit from the start.
Due dates and automatic follow-up
Give a task a due date and Viably takes care of the nudging. At 11:00 in your workspace timezone on the due date, Via posts a follow-up that tags the assignee, so nothing slips silently past its deadline.
- 1Set a due date when you create the task
Pick a date in the modal, or let Via parse it from your request, as in “by Friday”.
- 2Via follows up at 11am on the day
A reminder fires in the relevant channel, tagging the owner. Overdue tasks escalate with a private-first nudge that is aware of replies.
- 3Close it from Slack
Mark the task done straight from the card, with no dashboard trip required.
See everything on one board
Tasks created in Slack are mirrored to the dashboard, so admins and members get a board view alongside the in-channel cards.
The /kanban page shows tasks and issues together in a drag-and-drop board, grouped by status, giving you a single place to see what is open, in progress, and done.
The /tasks page lists every task with assignee, due date, and status filters for a focused, list-style read of the backlog.
Attach a medal bounty to a task and the assignee earns recognition on the leaderboard when they finish it, which turns follow-through into something the whole team can see.
Ask Via to create several tasks at once from a planning message, and each becomes its own card with the right owner and date.
React with the clipboard emoji, use the Create a Task shortcut, or ask Via in plain language. All three open the same task, so people can use whichever is nearest to hand.
Via posts a follow-up at 11am on the day, in your workspace timezone, tagging whoever owns it. The nudge happens in the channel, so a task going quiet is visible rather than private.
Yes, and that is often the point. An unassigned task sits up for grabs and anybody can claim it from Slack, which works well for shared queues where whoever has capacity should take the next thing.
The Tasks page in the dashboard puts every task in a drag-and-drop board grouped by status, so you get a single view across channels without anybody maintaining a separate tracker.
Turn your next message into an owned task with one reaction. Task management is on the free plan.
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