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Create Tasks in Slack

Create and assign tasks without leaving your Slack conversations.

Automatic Follow-Ups

Set it and forget it. Chaser keeps your team accountable automatically, right inside Slack.

Status Reports

Automatic status reports sent to any channel. See what's done, what's in progress, and what's stuck.

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Visibility & Reporting

See what's on track, what's falling behind, and who's working on what.

Followers

Keep the right people in the loop. Add followers to any task and they’ll get updates automatically.

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Kanban

See your workflow at a glance. Drag and drop tasks between columns to keep work moving.

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Docs & Files

Add links to tasks and upload files into the thread, then get back to them any time from your dashboard.

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Integrations

Your other tools create the tasks. Chaser makes sure they get done.

Slackbot

Ask Slackbot to review your team’s progress, reassign tasks, and update deadlines.

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Zapier

Create Chaser tasks automatically from the tools your team already uses.

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API

Connect Chaser to the tools and workflows your team already uses.

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Import & Export

Export all your tasks to CSV in one click, or use a connected AI assistant to turn other content into Chaser tasks.

View details: Import & Export
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Create Tasks Anywhere

Create tasks directly in your Slack conversations, or convert a message into a task.

In any channel or conversation in Slack, type /chaser @assignee [task] [due date (optional)]. Chaser’s AI will capture the due date and assign the task. The task appears in context for anyone to see, and you can edit, complete, or reassign it right there in Slack.

/chaser @alex prepare a sales report due next week Friday

You can also convert existing messages into a task by hovering over the message, selecting Connect to Apps, and then clicking Convert to Task.

Common Questions

Tasks get captured where the conversation happened — no copying context into another tool, no tabs, no “I’ll add it later.”

Yes. Assign anyone in your workspace — Chaser messages them directly and they can complete tasks without setting anything up.

Chaser follows up automatically and keeps the task visible on your dashboard until it’s done. Nothing gets buried.

Repeating Tasks

Set tasks to repeat automatically. Perfect for weekly reports, monthly blog updates, and more.

Create repeating tasks for anything that needs to be done regularly. Tasks can repeat on any schedule you want: daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, every full moon. Truly anything.

To set up a repeating task, just make a task like normal and describe how it should repeat at the end. Some examples:

/chaser @sam Share an update on the website’s traffic every Monday
/chaser @sales Update the CRM by 3pm every Friday
/chaser #general Fill out employee survey on the last Friday of every month

Common Questions

Yes — the next task is created on schedule, and the incomplete one stays open with follow-ups until it’s done.

Weekly reports, invoicing, content calendars, CRM updates, standup prep, employee surveys — anything on a rhythm.

Yes. Assign to a group or a whole channel and Chaser follows up with each person individually.

Assign to Groups

Assign to a group and Chaser follows up individually until everyone has completed their part.

Assign one task to a user group, a channel, or several people at once. Chaser creates a copy for each person and follows up individually until everyone has completed their part — you see who’s done at a glance.

Some examples:

/chaser @design-team Submit your Q3 goals by Friday
/chaser @amy @luis @priya Review the new pricing page by Thursday
/chaser #engineering Complete the security training by end of month

Common Questions

Yes — mention any Slack user group or channel and every member gets their own tracked copy of the task.

Chaser keeps following up with just the people who haven’t finished. Everyone else is left alone.

You can watch progress on the task itself or your dashboard, and get a summary when everyone’s done.

Checklists

Set up a checklist once, then instantly reuse it in Slack.

Build a checklist once — client onboarding, new hire onboarding, project launch — then run it in Slack with one command. Each item becomes a trackable task with its own assignee and due date.

Plans changed? When you move the due date on one checklist task, you can shift the rest by the same amount with just a click.

How to use it

  1. Open Checklists in Chaser and create a checklist.
  2. Add the tasks, assignees, and due dates for your process.
  3. Run the checklist in Slack whenever you need it.

Common Questions

Yes — each item can go to a different person with its own deadline, set when you build the checklist or when you run it.

That’s the point — run the same checklist as many times as you want, whenever you need it.

Yes — add, remove, or reassign items on a live run without affecting the saved template.

After you run a checklist, when you move one task’s due date, you can shift the rest of that run by the same amount with just a click. Push one task back three days, for example, and you can push the others back three days too.

Subtasks

Break work into smaller tasks and keep them together in a Slack thread.

In Chaser, subtasks are individual tasks grouped in the same Slack thread. Open a thread and type /chaser @person [task] [due date] for each step. Each task gets its own assignee and due date, and they stay grouped in Slack and on your Web Dashboard.

Common Questions

Yes. Use Checklists as reusable templates for workflows like client onboarding or a project launch. Set one up once, then run it whenever you need it. Each item becomes a task with its own assignee and due date.

Create a dedicated Slack channel for the project, then use threads to group related tasks within it.

Yes. Add the same tag to related tasks, then filter your dashboard by that tag. See Tags →

Round Robin

Distribute tasks evenly across team members with automatic round-robin assignment.

Post a task to a rotation and Chaser assigns it to the next person in line automatically. Great for support triage, code reviews, and anything that should be shared fairly.

How to use it

  1. Create a task assigned to a Slack user group or an entire channel.
  2. Choose Round Robin as the assignment mode. Chaser picks one person from the group to take the task.

Common Questions

It rotates through the group in order, so work is distributed evenly over time.

Yes — remove them from the rotation temporarily and Chaser skips to the next person. And like any task, you can always reassign one after it’s been created.

Yes — a repeating task on a rotation is a great way to share recurring chores like standup notes.

Volunteer Requests

Post tasks for anyone on the team to claim.

Post a task to a channel and let anyone claim it. Once claimed, it’s assigned and tracked like any other task — and Chaser follows up if nobody steps up.

How to use it

  1. Create a task assigned to several people, a user group, or a channel.
  2. Choose Request a Volunteer as the assignment mode so one person can claim the task.

Common Questions

The task stays visible in the channel and on everyone’s dashboard, and Chaser occasionally follows up until someone claims it.

The first claim wins by default, keeping ownership clear.

Yes — post the request to specific people, a channel, or a user group to scope who can pick it up.

Automatic Reminders

Chaser sends reminders at the right time so tasks get done without you chasing anyone.

Chaser reminds assignees before the due date, on the due date, and after it — escalating politely so you never have to chase anyone yourself.

Chaser keeps you in the loop too. If the assignee doesn’t acknowledge the task, Chaser follows up with them and lets you know they might not have seen it (maybe they’re actually on vacation). And as the assigner, you get a heads-up the morning the task is due.

How to customize your reminders

  1. Open Chaser in your Slack sidebar, then choose Reminder Settings from the dropdown to customize your defaults.
  2. To adjust an existing task, open its task dropdown → Reminders.

Changes to your defaults apply to future tasks you create.

Common Questions

Yes — tune the reminder schedule for your team, or per task when timing matters.

Immediately. Completing a task ends all follow-ups on it.

They’re spaced out and polite, and only go to the people involved with the task — far less annoying than a human asking “any update?” for the third time.

Status Reports

Automatic status reports sent to any channel. See what's done, what's in progress, and what's stuck.

Schedule automatic status reports to any channel: what’s done, what’s in progress, what’s overdue, and what’s stuck. Your standup writes itself.

How to use it

  1. Type /chaser in the channel and press Enter.
  2. Click the channel’s Status Report button, then Adjust Schedule to choose when reports are sent.

You can also adjust the schedule using the gear icon on an existing report.

Common Questions

You control the frequency for each channel. We recommend sending one weekly Status Report on Monday morning, but you can add more if that suits your team.

Status Reports are generated per channel and include all tasks created in that channel.

Everyone in the channel can see them. Reports only include tasks from that channel, so no one will see anything they couldn’t already see in Slack.

Followers

Keep the right people in the loop. Add followers to any task and they’ll get updates automatically.

Add followers to any task and they’ll get updates on progress, completion, and changes automatically—no more “any update on this?” pings.

To add followers, click Edit on a task and update the follower list. Or, when creating a task, type “CC @person” to add them automatically.

Common Questions

Status changes, completion, reassignment, and due-date changes.

Yes — add yourself as a follower on any task you can see.

Yes — anyone can unfollow. To add or remove other people as followers, click Edit on the task.

In-Slack Dashboard

View and manage all your tasks from a dashboard built into Slack.

Open Chaser in your Slack sidebar, then choose Assigned to me to see your tasks. Edit, complete, and reassign tasks without leaving Slack.

Filter for tasks assigned to you or by you, then group or filter them by channel, assignee, or due date to find exactly what you need.

Common Questions

Tasks follow Slack’s visibility: people can only see tasks made in conversations they’re part of. A task created in a DM or private channel stays private to that conversation.

Yes — the same dashboard is available on the web for bigger-screen planning.

Yes — it reflects completions and changes the moment they happen in Slack.

Team Reports

Track what’s getting done across your team. Filter by person, status, or project.

Open the Web Dashboard and select Reports in the left sidebar to track what’s getting done across the team. Filter by person, status, tag, or project, and spot what’s stuck before it slips.

You get the basic, popular reports by default. Need something different? Just describe the report you want and Chaser creates it for you in under 2 minutes.

Common Questions

Yes — export any view to CSV in one click.

Anyone can create their own reports. A report includes all tasks made in the conversations you’re a member of.

Yes — for example, you can look back at completion rates over time to see how the team is trending.

Calendar View

See tasks on a weekly or monthly calendar, or sync with Google Calendar.

See tasks laid out on a weekly or monthly calendar, or sync with Google Calendar so deadlines show up where you already plan your time.

How to use it

  1. Open Chaser in Slack, click Web Dashboard, then select Calendar to see your tasks by date.
  2. To sync tasks to your calendar app, open Connect in the dashboard’s left sidebar and subscribe from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook.

Common Questions

No — it’s one-way. You make tasks in Slack with Chaser, and they flow into your Google Calendar automatically and stay current as they change.

By default, yes. You can also choose to include tasks you’ve assigned to others and tasks you follow.

By default, yes — so your calendar only shows outstanding work. You can change this setting.

Tags

Add tags to organize tasks by priority, project, and more.

Add tags for priority, project, client — anything. Filter your dashboard and reports by tag to see exactly one slice of the work.

Common Questions

Yes — tag a task with as many as you need, like +urgent and +website.

Anyone by default, so the system grows with your team — admins can tidy the list.

Yes — tags work as filters everywhere: dashboard, reports, and calendar.

Custom Task Statuses

Set up task statuses that fit your team’s workflow.

Go beyond to-do and done. Define statuses that match your workflow — In Review, Blocked, Waiting on Client — and track tasks through them.

How to use it

  1. Open Chaser’s Admin settings and add your custom statuses.
  2. Choose a status from any task’s status dropdown in Slack or on the dashboard.

Only Chaser admins can create or reorder statuses.

Common Questions

As many as your workflow needs — though most teams do best with 4–6.

No — to ensure consistency, statuses apply across your entire workspace.

Yes — see counts per status to spot bottlenecks like a growing “Blocked” pile.

Kanban

See your workflow at a glance. Drag and drop tasks between columns to keep work moving.

Your Kanban board turns custom statuses into columns, so you can see where every task stands and drag work from one stage to the next. When you move a task, its status updates automatically in Slack and on the Dashboard—so everyone stays in the loop, even if they never open the Kanban board.

How to use it

  1. Ask a Chaser admin to add your workflow’s custom statuses in Admin settings. These become your board’s columns.
  2. Open the Kanban board on the Web Dashboard and drag a task to another column to update its status.

Common Questions

Your board automatically uses your custom statuses as columns, so it matches the workflow your team already uses.

Dragging a task to another column changes its status. That update is automatically reflected in Slack and everywhere on the Dashboard.

No. Teammates can work from Kanban, the Web Dashboard, or Slack. Changes stay in sync, so everyone sees the latest status regardless of how they work.

Slackbot

Ask Slackbot to review your team’s progress, reassign tasks, and update deadlines.

See what’s done and what needs attention without reviewing every task yourself. Ask Slackbot to summarize your team’s work, then follow up to make changes — like reassigning a teammate’s tasks while they’re on vacation.

Common Questions

Docs & Files

Add links to tasks and upload files into the thread, then get back to them any time from your dashboard.

Create the task first, then open its Slack thread to upload files or share links. Links can also be added to the task itself. To find a file later, open the task’s Slack thread from your dashboard.

Common Questions

Anything Slack accepts — docs, images, PDFs, spreadsheets — plus any URL.

Yes. Files and links stay in the task’s Slack thread alongside the conversation, so the full context is always in one place—no separate tool to check.

Open the task from your dashboard — its files and links are right there in the thread.

Connect Workspaces

Assign and track tasks with clients and partners across organizations in Slack Connect.

Chaser works across connected workspaces, so the other organization can participate without signing up for Chaser or installing anything.

Common Questions

No — if one side has Chaser, tasks can be assigned and tracked in the shared channel.

No — they only see tasks in the shared channel. Your internal tasks stay internal.

Yes — Chaser reminds external assignees the same way it reminds your own team.

Connect AI Agents (MCP)

Use AI tools like ChatGPT & Claude to assign tasks, run reports, and more.

Connect ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI tools to Chaser through MCP. Ask your AI to assign tasks, run reports, or reschedule work — and it happens in Slack.

Paste meeting notes and ask for action items as tasks. Ask “what’s overdue for the design team?” and get a live answer. Your AI becomes a project manager that actually does the follow-through.

How to use it

  1. Connect your Chaser account using the setup guide for Claude or ChatGPT.
  2. Open a conversation with your connected AI assistant and ask it to create a task, update a due date, or run a report.

Common Questions

Anything that supports MCP — Claude, ChatGPT, and a growing list of agents and IDEs.

A few minutes — connect once and every conversation with your AI can create and manage tasks.

Pretty much anything. Create and assign tasks, set due dates, run reports, and check status. Coworker switched teams? Ask Claude to reassign all their tasks to someone else.

Browser Extension

Create a task from any website in two clicks. Attach a link or screenshot, and it lands in Slack.

Create a task from any website in two clicks. Attach the link or a screenshot, and it lands in Slack — assigned, due-dated, and tracked like any other task.

How to use it

  1. Open Web Dashboard → Connect → Browser Extensions and install the extension for Chrome or Edge.
  2. On any webpage, open the Chaser extension and choose who to assign the task to.
  3. Add a due date and optionally include the page link or a screenshot, then create the task.

Common Questions

Chrome and Chromium-based browsers like Edge, Brave, and Arc.

The extension captures the page for you and attaches it to the task automatically.

Yes — pick any teammate and set a due date right in the popup.

Zapier

Create Chaser tasks automatically from the tools your team already uses.

With 6,000+ Zapier integrations, events like a new form response, a deal stage change, or a support ticket can trigger a task.

How to use it

  1. Create a Zap with the trigger you want to use, such as a new form response or a deal stage change.
  2. Add an action, search for Chaser, and select Send Task to create the task in Slack.

Creating several tasks? Add one Send Task action for each task.

Set up Zapier →

Common Questions

Typeform response → task for sales, HubSpot deal won → onboarding checklist, new Stripe dispute → task for finance.

Chaser works on Zapier’s free tier.

No — Zapier is for creating tasks. To update or complete tasks from other tools, use Chaser’s API. Chaser API

Incoming Webhooks

Create Chaser tasks automatically from any tool or service that can send a webhook.

Send a JSON POST request using your webhook token, and Chaser creates the tasks in Slack.

How to use it

  1. In Slack, type /chaser get-chaser-webhook-token to get your webhook token.
  2. Follow the webhook setup guide to add your token and task details to your automation’s HTTP POST request.

Common Questions

A JSON array of up to 50 tasks. A task summary is the only required field; assignee, due date and time, channel, and multi-assignee strategy are optional.

Each request must include a secret webhook token generated in Slack.

Yes. Specify an assignee by email address or Slack user group handle, and add a due date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

API

Connect Chaser to the tools and workflows your team already uses.

Use the API to create and manage Chaser tasks from your CRM, internal tools, scripts, or custom apps. Tasks appear in Slack, so the people doing the work don’t need to open the system that created them.

How to use it

  1. Open Connect on the Web Dashboard and create an API key.
  2. Use your key with the request examples in the API documentation to connect your tool or script to Chaser.

Common Questions

Create, read, update, complete, reopen, and delete tasks. You can also acknowledge tasks and log time.

Every request uses a Bearer token. Create and manage API keys from the Connect page in your Chaser dashboard.

The API allows 300 requests per minute per authenticated user. Contact support if you need a higher limit.

Import & Export

Export all your tasks to CSV in one click, or use a connected AI assistant to turn other content into Chaser tasks.

To import, connect ChatGPT, Claude, or another compatible AI assistant to Chaser through MCP. Then add a spreadsheet, meeting notes, or another tool’s export and ask it to create the tasks in Chaser.

To export, open the Web Dashboard and use its export option to download your task data as a CSV file.

Common Questions

Every task with assignee, status, due date, tags, and completion history.

Yes — export from your old tool, hand the file to your AI, and it recreates the tasks in Chaser.

No special template needed. Share your spreadsheet, notes, or export with your connected AI assistant, then tell it which tasks to create, who to assign them to, and when they’re due.

Time Tracking

Log hours directly in Slack, get instant visibility into time spent on tasks. (Optional)

Log hours directly in Slack and see time spent per task, person, or project. Fully optional — turn it on only if your team needs it.

When a task is completed, Chaser immediately prompts the assignee to log their time. They can also log time before completing the task — say, if they’re partway done.

Common Questions

Right on the task in Slack — one click to log hours, no separate timer app.

Your time tracking report is an auto-updating Google Sheet that lives in your Drive — hours by task, person, tag, and project, ready to slice however you want.

Yes — it’s off by default, and you can enable or disable it for any individual user.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Other tools sit outside your daily flow. Chaser lives in Slack, making task tracking easy for your team and giving you a clear view of what’s due, what’s late, and what needs attention.

How is Chaser different from Monday, Asana, or ClickUp?

Chaser is purpose-built for teams that already live in Slack.

While Monday, Asana, and ClickUp are powerful tools designed for deep project planning in standalone apps, Chaser keeps everything inside Slack—so your team doesn’t have to change how they work or learn a new system.

What are Chaser’s top features?

Check out Chaser’s top features on the Features Page.

Does Chaser require any setup?

Simply add Chaser to Slack and you can instantly start creating tasks.‍

No one needs to sign up and no training is required. Chaser will explain itself to anyone that gets a task!

What’s included in the free trial?

The free trial offers unlimited access for unlimited seats for 14 days. No credit card needed!

How does project management in Slack work with Chaser?

Here’s what happens when your team starts using Chaser:

  • Tasks can be created in the middle of your conversations in Slack.
  • Your dashboard shows all tasks, grouped by the channel they were made in. This means no more manually creating/deleting project boards and managing who has access – your Slack channels act like “projects” and the members of each channel can see all the tasks.
  • Chaser automatically follows up on any incomplete tasks and generates Status Reports for each channel.
    • Assigning to Groups
    • Volunteer Requests
    • Repeating Tasks
    • Reusable Checklists
    • Zapier/API integrations
    • And much more

What’s the difference between Slack task management and traditional project management tools?

Slack task management is built for execution inside the place your team already works, while traditional project management tools are built for planning inside a separate system.

With Slack-first task management (like Chaser), tasks, updates, and reminders live directly in Slack, so people don’t have to change behavior or switch tabs to stay on track. It’s fast to adopt, easy to learn, and stays up to date because tasks come with automatic reminders and status checks by default.

Traditional project management tools (like Asana, Monday, ClickUp, Trello, etc.) are typically standalone web and mobile apps designed for deeper project planning. They offer more advanced features - things like dependencies, Gantt charts, workload management, and highly customizable workflows - but they often require setup, onboarding, and ongoing maintenance. The biggest risk is adoption: visibility and dashboards are only accurate if the team consistently logs in and updates tasks.

In short: Slack task management wins on speed, simplicity, and engagement, while traditional PM tools win on depth, structure, and advanced planning.

Do I need to get Chaser for everyone in my Slack workspace?

Nope. You choose exactly who gets access — add the people who need it and leave everyone else out.

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