Lukas Moser it is unfortunately not possible to build on top of an old extension. What possible though is to bring some features of an old extension to the new one - how this should exactly look is tbd. But if you could hop on a quick call and share your vision of how this should work to be the most efficient for you, that would help us a lot! Wdyt?

James hey there! We are in the early days with the extension, this is just the first beta. It will be AI-first, but at some point there might be more non-AI features that will allow usage when you run out of credits. We are now evaluating all the feedback before we can make any further decisions on features! So thanks for the message, it is really helpful

Michael Anderson: that is interesting, mind jumping on a quick interview this week to talk through your experience with the new extension and asks? My email should be visible in the profile!

Alex Lashkov sure thing.

Alex Lashkov can you share your email? I am not able to find it

Michael Anderson: I just emailed you!

Vincent D'Amico you can email me directly too, that will be faster. Can you find my email in the profile?

Alex Lashkov Will this extension require us to have the AI add-on in our ClickUp accounts? We have a paid Business Plan. Adding AI would more than quadruple our costs.

Leslie Surel pricing strategy for this is not yet 100% set in stone, so having an input from your side would help us to better shape the offering.

Alex Lashkov I'm actually a little confused here. Maybe I'm not in the right thread. I want a Chrome extension that lets me add ClickUp tasks easily from my browser, without having to copy something from one place, switch over to ClickUp, manually create a new task, then paste the info I copied, then save. Pretty much like the old chrome extension was supposed to do, but didn't work reliably.

My use cases are very simple -- (1) I'm in gmail and a client sends me a suggestion for a project we're working on. I'd click something to add a task to Clickup. Enter the info into a popup or something, click save. Without leaving gmail. (2) I'm on a website with an interesting article I want to add to our team wiki, I click a button in my Chrome menu, select which list or folder to add it to, then save and close. Again, without having to manually copy the URL, switch over to my ClickUp tab, select a list, create a task, and paste the info.

I may be missing something with what you're sharing here, but pretty sure I don't need AI for any of that. I don't need AI to evaluate or process anything, I just want to connect tools.

Leslie Surel this extension is AI-first, meaning that right now it is not a direct replica of an old extension with its specific workflows. Also you are not supposed to copy and paste anything with the new extension - you click buttons in the sidebar or Gmail and it creates tasks and does things or you command it to do so.

Alex Lashkov I was so excited to test it when I received the email, just to uninstall it few minutes later. Sorry, I can't justify $320 to create a task with AI from an email when I had this feature for free 3 years ago.

It's mindblowing how all the research you did here had people asking for a minimum of basic features from the old extension, yet you kept pushing the 'you can just tell the AI to do it' narrative and delivered just 10% of that.

Vlad Nedelcu let's not forget this is a very early beta and nobody said there will be nothing beyond that.

Alex Lashkov Does your roadmap have feature, that allows attach files from Gmail? (when I want to create task from Gmail).

Vladimirs Anufrijevs: we are planning our next milestones, this will be in the list

Alex Lashkov I guess that is where the problem is. Like Vlad said, I don't want AI involved for a simple connector. There are much less robust tools than ClickUp that can do this. I don't need or want AI in ClickUp especially if I have to pay for it. I find it incredibly disappointing if the "rebuild the Chrome extension" actually meant not having a useful Chrome extension, but rather another AI tool that we have to pay for.

To me it sounds like anyone who wants to add tasks to their project management platform from email or other websites will have to (a) Use something other than ClickUp, or (b) Continue to use ClickUp, but go through the steps and maintenance of using a 3rd party tool like Zapier somehow.

Leslie Surel sure I understand, but we really believe AI can be leveraged efficiently for those tasks + we are planning our future roadmap now, and there is a huge chance there will also be additional features beyond that, as I said before.

Alex Lashkov There seems to be an issue when adding Gmail emails as tasks. The email link in the task opens Gmail but does not open the email that was referenced. Attachments from emails do not come with the tasks either like before. I like the new extension, but I miss the old extension where I can easily see all my spaces and lists and quickly add people and due dates. Now it seems to be cumbersome having to type in everything especially when the Brain does not pick the right lists to choose from. That defeats the purpose of not having to remember everything in Clickup and everyone's name. I also find it not as quick vs the old extension. Brain has to think... vs before I just click on my list and assign it and date it and done quickly. However, when I do know the exact list and everything about the task then the new Brain extension is very useful because it does exactly what I asked right into Clickup. There could be options to select lists for times when someone doesn't remember the list, otherwise I find myself going to the Clickup app and create the task there. The @ could be improved to show a people tab and a task tab and a recent tab. It currently shows recent only but If I want to @ someone or a task, I then again need to remember but If I don't then off to the app I go. Adding a calendar option too would be good to choose a date from because there are times when I need to pull up a calendar to find a good due date and currently that requires me to leave the Brain extension and open up the Clickup app or another windows calendar. I would prefer to have as much of this in the extension to act similar to Clickup app where I can do everything within it and not have to type as much or even talk because I'm in meetings. This is through Edge Browser so maybe Chrome is different in experience. Let me know if maybe I'm missing something. Everything else in Brain has been great so far.

Andres Vitela if you installed it in Edge, it should be basically be similar experience. I've recorded everything you've mentioned. We will try to work in making all flows as fast as we can, that is for sure! Thanks for the feedback 💜

Luke Kilgour try the new one I've shared above!

David Mucci like events in Gcal or how exactly? Trying to understand the use-case better..

Alex Lashkov So for example, if I have an Event created in ClickUp (with lots of custom fields for Tradeshows, Expos, etc. - see attached sample from my Space - it's 2 pages/images), I'd like to be able to attach Gmails from the event hosts, venues, etc into the Event itself. Currently, you can only attach Gmails directly to Tasks (see additional screenshots) and not Events. It makes little sense to be able to attach docs, lists, etc inside an Event in ClickUp but not be able to attach any Gmail communications surrounding that event. Does that make sense?

Gabe Farajollah you should be able to do smth like that via AI, I think. Can you try here https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickup-talk-to-ai-in-any/bpanegeigcjabmofichmidnfmfhomkgo ?

Alex Norton new extension can do this via AI - you just prompt it to go to this task and create a subtask

Lukas Moser: it will be a completely new extension, with separate Chrome Store listing, etc. What mail plugins do you mean here? Not sure I understand..

Alex Lashkov Thanks for your answer. I mean if this plugin will also get an update or be part of the new extension: https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-ie/product/office/WA104382026?tab=Overview

Lukas Moser: nope, ClickUp for Outlook is a different app, here we are talking about Chrome Extension

Alex Lashkov Thanks, but once you have the components created and built. Will you consider re using these libraries with the other apps across the Clickup family of apps? Like Outlook etc? Is that still under consideration.

I know previously alot of these systems were reused throughout other apps of clickup. When I ever I had wanted a clickup enhancement to something else it was always tied to a limitation of the original chrome extension / library. So, can't wait to see what you come up with. Such exciting times with everything.

Vincent D'Amico yeah sure that is a goal, however, the extension is built off of Brain MAX - and it has a bit different tech stack compared to ClickUp web, so for now we will be re-using components across extension/Brain MAX desktop/Brain Max mobile and go from there and expand the reach.

Alex Lashkov thanks for the transparency and context. I do agree and hope to be able to use Max Brain more once i get my hands on this extension hoping it solves for alot of what i struggle with inside of the browser in between my emails etc.

I do think its going to take me to a whole new level.

Vincent D'Amico: yeah that is the plan. This thing is actually mind-blowing imo, excited to show it you y'all soon!

Alex Lashkov we still on track with this? Cant wait to see it! on my list to check weekly.

Vincent DAmico Chrome Store moderation for a prod build takes forever..But once it is done we are live and will do an update