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The Chaser blog—ideas and insights to help your team stay aligned, accountable, and moving forward - In Slack and beyond.

Slack Lists seems like the obvious way to manage work in Slack. Here’s what happens when you try to use it for conversations, deadlines and recurring work.

Alex Steshenko

17 Slack Productivity Tricks & Hacks for Maximum Team Productivity

17 tactics that transform Slack from a noisy chat app into your team's productivity engine, covering channels, automation, and etiquette.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

How to run a project in Slack

Run projects in Slack with a dedicated channel, a shared brief, tasks in threads, reminders and views for tracking progress.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

Enterprise Task Management Software for Teams That Use Slack

A practical guide to enterprise task management software for Slack teams

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

How to Create Tasks in Slack From Web Pages

Create tasks from web pages with Chaser's Chrome extension. Send the page link or a screenshot to a tracked task in Slack.

Alex Steshenko

Productivity & Focus

9 Best Apps for Small Businesses in 2026

Nine practical apps for small businesses, covering the core tools for office work, money, communication, customers, scheduling, design, and security.

Josh Martow

Slack Tips

Slack Forms: How to Set Them Up and What to Use Them For

How to create Slack forms with Workflow Builder or a form app, what teams use them for, and a lighter way to capture requests from plain messages.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

10 Best Notion Alternatives, Grouped by What You Need

Compare 10 Notion alternatives by use case and find the right option for your team's documents, project work, or personal notes.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

AI Project Management: The Tools and Agents Worth Knowing in 2026

A look at AI project management tools and agents in 2026 — from platform AI features to agents like Claude Tag, and where people stay in charge.

Alex Steshenko

Productivity & Focus

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication: What Goes Where

What synchronous vs asynchronous communication means, which work belongs in each mode, and the habits that make async work for your team.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Jira Alternatives: What to Switch To, and When

Main Jira alternatives — Linear, Shortcut, GitHub Projects, Asana, Trello, and Slack-based tracking with Chaser

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Project Management for Freelancers: Hiring One, or Being One

Project management for freelancers, both directions: hire contractors without full tool access, or track work across clients in shared Slack channels.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Sample Checklists You Can Run in Slack

Run checklists in Slack for almost any business function. Browse Chaser's sample checklists, from client onboarding to SOC 2 compliance.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

How to Do Time Tracking in Slack

Time tracking in Slack that works as a billable hours tracker: turn messages into tasks, log hours, and get a live Google Sheets report for invoicing.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Best Task Management Software for Teams

Compare the best task management software for teams — Chaser, Asana, Monday.com, ClickUp and more — and how to pick one your whole team will keep using.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

How to Streamline the Review and Approval Process

How to streamline the review and approval: tracked in Slack with automatic reminders.

Alex Steshenko

Slack Tips

Monday.com Slack Integration: What It Does and How to Set It Up

How to set up the Monday.com Slack integration: notification recipes, creating items from Slack messages, and what the integration won't do.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

Cross-Functional Collaboration: How to Work Across Teams, Departments, and Organizations (with Slack Connect)

How to run cross-functional collaboration in Slack: a setup that works across departments, and Slack Connect for work with outside companies.

Alex Steshenko

Slack Tips

Slack AI Tools: The Bots and Built-In Features Worth Using

A guide to the main Slack AI tools — Chaser, Claude, Slack's built-in AI, Viktor and Runbear: what each one does, where it falls short, and what it costs.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

How to Set Up a Social Media Content Workflow

A social media content workflow turns scattered posting into a repeatable process.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Project Management Software for SaaS Startups

Choosing project management software for a SaaS startup is a decision about how much structure to take on, and when.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

Monday vs ClickUp: Which One Fits How Your Team Works

Monday vs ClickUp compared — how each structures work, views, and automation.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Employee Onboarding Checklist: How to Set Up a New Hire Onboarding Checklist

An employee onboarding checklist covering preboarding, paperwork, access, equipment and the first 90 days — with an owner and deadline for every step.

Josh Martow

Productivity & Focus

Time Blocking: What It's Good For, and Where It Breaks

Time blocking gives your day structure, but a rigid calendar breaks once work gets reactive. Where it helps, where it fails, and a more flexible approach.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Simple Project Management: How to Keep It Light

Simple project management means adding only the structure a project earns. What it actually needs, and how to run it in Slack where your team works.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

Managing Work in Slack

Managing work is the coordination that keeps a team's real work moving. What it involves, how much you need, and how to do it in Slack with less overhead.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Project Plan Template: How to Run It in Slack

A simple project plan template you can download as a spreadsheet, plus how to run the whole project in Slack

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Best Tools for Collaborative Task Management

A survey of collaborative task management tools — Asana, Monday, ClickUp, Trello, Notion and others

Alex Steshenko

Slack Tips

How to Create a Poll in Slack

How to create a poll in Slack: poll apps like Simple Poll and Polly, or assigning it as a task

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

How to Organize a Sales to Customer Success Handoff in Slack

How to run a sales to customer success handoff: what the handoff doc covers, who owns each step, and how to track the whole checklist in Slack.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Monday.com Alternatives: What to Use Instead, and When

Looking for a Monday.com alternative? A plain guide to Asana, ClickUp, Trello, Notion, Jira, spreadsheets and Slack-based trackers — and how to choose.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

ClickUp Alternatives: The Main Options and Where Each Fits

The main ClickUp alternatives surveyed: Trello, Asana, ProofHub, Monday, Notion, Linear, Jira and Slack-based trackers — what each trades away and how to choose.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Asana vs Monday.com: Which One Fits How Your Team Works

Asana vs Monday compared — task models, views, automation, pricing and seat minimums, and what changes for teams that coordinate in Slack.

Josh Martow

Slack Tips

Slack Gmail Integration: From Forwarded Emails to Tracked Tasks

How the Slack Gmail integration works: the Gmail add-on, channel email addresses, Slackbot forwarding, and turning labeled emails into tracked tasks.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

The Employee Offboarding Checklist: Every Step and Who Owns It

An employee offboarding checklist covering knowledge transfer, access revocation, equipment and final pay — with an owner and deadline for every step.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Agency Client Onboarding: What to Cover and How to Run It in Slack

What goes into agency client onboarding — access, kickoff, first 30 days — and how to run the whole checklist in a shared Slack channel with the client.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

How to Build a Content Production Workflow (With Examples)

The stages and roles of a content production workflow, two example setups, and how to run the whole process in Slack with reusable checklists.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

A Conference Planning Checklist You Can Run in Slack

A conference planning checklist organized by timeframe — venue, speakers, registration, day-of

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

Do Slack Teams Even Need a Project Management Tool?

Should your Slack team run projects in Slack, lean on a traditional tool, or skip the tool entirely? A simple framework for picking the approach that sticks.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

How to Do Slack Analytics with Chaser

How to get Slack analytics on what's assigned, done, and overdue

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Google Calendar Slack Integration with Chaser

How to connect Google Calendar and Slack with Chaser, so tasks created from Slack messages show up next to your meetings — plus Chaser's own calendar view.

Alex Steshenko

Slack Tips

GitHub Slack Integration: Connecting Your Code and Your Conversations

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

Asana vs Trello for Teams That Work in Slack

Asana vs Trello comparison for teams that work in Slack. How to choose.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

Project Management for Agencies, Built for Slack

How agencies can run project management in Slack: turn messages into tracked tasks, automate onboarding checklists and client updates, and chase every task to done.

Josh Martow

Slack Tips

Slack Workflow Automations: A Guide for Teams

How Slack workflow automation works, and the main tools for it - Workflow Builder, Zapier, and Chaser - what each is good for, and how they fit together.

Alex Steshenko

Task & Project Management in Slack

How to Manage Multiple Projects at Once

Practical ways to manage multiple projects at once: keep one view of the work, prioritise, watch workload, and track progress — whatever tool you use.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

Trello Alternatives: How to Choose

A plain rundown of the main Trello alternatives — Asana, Monday, ClickUp, Notion, Jira and Slack-based tools — what each is good and bad at, and how to choose.

Josh Martow

Slack Tips

Using Slack Lists & Checklists: How To Use & Powerful Alternatives in Slack

Learn how to use Slack Lists and checklists, where they break down, and how to build a reusable checklist in Slack that runs itself with Chaser.

Josh Martow

Slack Tips

Slack Ticketing & Issues Tracking: Guide for Teams

Stop losing tickets in Slack threads. Learn how to track and resolve issues right where your team already communicates.

Josh Martow

Productivity & Focus

Why Context Switching Is Killing Your Team’s Productivity (and what to do about it)

Context switching costs teams up to 40% of their productivity. Learn why it happens, why tools make it worse, and how to solve it with Chaser.

Josh Martow

Productivity & Focus

The Old Way Is Slowing You Down: How Chaser Rethinks Task Management for Modern Teams

Traditional project management tools slow modern teams down. Learn how Chaser keeps work visible, follow-through automatic, and everything running inside Slack—no extra logins, no context switching.

Josh Martow

Task & Project Management in Slack

Why Slack Needs Built-In Task Management (And What to Do About It)

Slack is great for communication, but not for managing tasks. Discover how Chaser turns Slack into a powerful, native task management solution without disrupting your team’s workflow.

Josh Martow

Productivity & Focus