Capture work where it actually happens.
React with ๐ on any message and it becomes a task. Via assigns it, follows up, escalates when needed, and keeps the team moving without a separate project tool.
We should fix this by Friday โ probably the new checkout middleware.
Linked to issue #218 โ checkout middleware.
- Assignee
- @oscar
- Due
- Fri (in 2 days)
- Status
- Size ร Impact
What you can do
One-reaction capture
Turn any Slack message into a tracked task instantly โ title, description, and due date pre-filled. No copy-paste, no context switch.
Claim in one tap
Unowned tasks post ๐ up for grabs. Claiming assigns and starts the work in a single click โ no โwho's on this?โ thread.
Size ร Impact gauges
Every task carries a four-step size and impact scale, so priorities stay honest at a glance โ in Slack and on the board.
AI-native editing
Tell @Via what changed in plain language. It updates scope, pushes due dates, and reschedules its own follow-ups to match.
Follow-ups that escalate gently
Via checks in at 11:00 on the due date. If a task slips, the owner gets a private DM, the creator a quiet heads-up, and the task auto-tags overdue.
Set it to repeat
Daily, weekday, weekly, or monthly. Via spawns each occurrence at 11:00 your time, follows it up, and re-arms the next โ DST- and month-end-safe.
Attach a bounty
Pin a medal to a task at creation. The moment it's marked done, Via awards the medal and announces it โ recognition that pays itself out.
Tasks from your webhooks
Wire a Webhook Relay to spawn a task automatically โ a new lead, a contact-form fill, or a subscription set to cancel becomes an owned, claimable task in Slack, routed to the right person.
Weekly Digest & Month in Review
A Monday recap of overdue, unclaimed, expiring, and upcoming work โ plus a monthly highlight reel of everything shipped.
From decided to done, without leaving Slack
Follow one task through its whole life and watch its record change with every tap: captured from a decision, claimed, rescoped, followed up, escalated when it slips, and closed out.
Q3 revenue report for Dunder Mifflin
Someone reacts ๐ to a decision in a busy channel, and Via turns the message into a task with the title, description and due date filled in from the words already written.
The status meeting, replaced by two messages
Every Monday at 9:00 the Weekly Pulse lists what's overdue, unclaimed and coming up. On the first of the month the Month in Review counts what shipped and who carried it.
๐๏ธ Your Weekly Pulse
A snapshot of where your team stands โ Monday 30 June
๐ก Webhook activity โ last 7 days
612 events ยท ๐ฐ $11.8K ยท IDR 96M
โ ๏ธ Overdue โ 3 tagged overdue
Past their moment โ worth a nudge or a close-out.
๐ Q3 revenue report for Dunder Mifflin โ @jim
๐ Renew SSL certificates โ ๐ up for grabs
๐ #infra โ deploy-freeze decision
๐ Unclaimed tasks โ 2
Up for grabs. See one you can own? Claim it.
โข Draft the July changelog
๐ Claimโข QA the mobile nav fix
๐ Claim๐ Pins expiring this week โ 1
๐ Final brand palette + design tokens
โฆฟ expires Thu 3 Jul ยท in 3d
๐ Open issues โ 2
๐ด #218 Annual-plan checkout 500 โ @oscar
๐ด #224 Webhook retry storm โ unassigned
โฐ Reminders this week โ 2
โข Tue 1 Jul ยท in 1d ๐ โ Standup notes (#team)
โข Fri 4 Jul ยท in 4d โ Send Dunder Mifflin the invoice (DM to @kevin)
๐ Medals โ last 7 days
Open the command center โ ยท manage this digest under Digest
1One Monday message
Lands in #team on schedule. A section appears only when it has something to say, so a calm week reads as one tidy โall caught upโ.
The Weekly Pulse lands in #team at 9:00 every Monday with overdue work, unclaimed tasks, expiring pins, open issues, reminders and the week's medal movers. On the first of the month the Month in Review follows with what the team shipped, the revenue relayed and the medal champions.
Decided in Slack.Done in Slack.
No status meeting required.
Some work is never really done
The weekly report. The month-end close. The daily standup. Set a task to repeat once and Via runs the series forever โ each occurrence spawned, followed up, and re-armed, at 11:00 your workspace's time.
Compile revenue, send to finance. Fires at 11:00 your time, every occurrence.
Standups, backups, end-of-day checks. The occurrence that came due is closed; tomorrow's is already waiting.
Reward the work โ automatically
Pin a medal to any task when you create it. The instant it's marked done, Via awards the medal to whoever did the work and announces it in the channel. You set the reward once; the recognition closes its own loop.
Ship the Q3 investor deck
Owner: @kelly ยท Due today
Bounty: +1 ๐จ Craft medal
Set when the task was created.
Via announces the medal โ instantly.
Then track it all โ board or table, your call
Every task lands in the command center too: a kanban board where cards glide between lanes, and a table with inline editors on every cell. Both stay in sync with Slack.
To do
3Send Michael the twelve-seat quote
Prep Michael's twelve-seat onboarding checklist
Book the kickoff call with Dunder Mifflin
Active
1Draft annual invoice for Dunder Mifflin
Done
1Answer Michael's proration question
The work that enquiry spawned, on a board where cards glide between lanes as status changes. Viably can optionally manage the work through @Via so you can focus on managing the relationship instead.
Read how we use it
Task management in Slack: owners, due dates, and follow-ups
Task management in Slack: what the built-in tools miss, and how to give every request an owner, a due date, and an automatic follow-up.
Automating away our daily standup in Slack
Our daily call had stopped surfacing new information and started repeating what Slack already showed. Here's what we replaced it with: tasks that follow up on their own, issues with visible owners, and a weekly pulse digest instead of a meeting nobody wanted.
Questions, answered
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What happens when a task is due?
Can I leave a task for anyone to pick up?
Do recurring tasks work?
Where do I see everything in one place?
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