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Alex Lashkov
Good news! We're rebuilding the ClickUp Chrome Extension from the ground up -- AI-first, faster, and free from the reliability issues of the past.
To make sure it fits seamlessly into your daily workflows, we'd love to know:
👉 What other Chrome extensions do you use regularly?
(e.g. writing assistants, screenshot tools, video clip recorders, AI copilots - anything!)
This info will fuel our roadmap + ensure compatibility with tools you already use!
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Jason Joseph
Hey Alex, hope you had a good weekend.
Im sure its already come up, but in this rebuild, could it please be considered to add the ability to reposition the Brain icon in the bottom right of the browser.
There are too many things it competes with. (And it has from the jump felt like a step backward to have it locked in place considering the original CLickUp browser app has always been able to be repositioned.
(RE: Other Chrome extensions...
I use Cloze ( https://ai.cloze.com/platform/real-estate-crm/ ) which is a CRM that while designed for Real Estate, has a few features that ClickUp would benefit greatly from. 1- It opens as a side bar in LInkedIn and can create a contact from the persons Profile, or from a Company's Page. And 2- It lets you set types of connections, Acquaintance, Team Member, Lead, Client, etc., etc., you can define them. For each, it let's you customize how often you get a reminder to contact that person based on the group they are in, and if you haven't reached out to them within that amount of time. That feature alone has always been leaps ahead of all else available and it lets you connect your phone as well so it knows when you've messaged them wether it is via email, text or phone call. It is a very powerful toolset.
The other I would love to see in ClickUp, is something like Scribe: https://scribe.com/ It allows users to easily record, document, and share SOPs. I think ClickUp could actually use this to help outline its own How-Tos for its client base. It is an incredibly enabling tool. Please have a good look through it when time allows. Clips in ClickUp does allow for explaining things, but this goes a step further for those times when step by step explanations are better presented with each step clearly outlined. )
Alex Lashkov
Jason Joseph wow these are cool ideas, especially about LinkedIn enrichment. I really like that, but I am not sure how that fits into the current roadmap. But will do some evaluation on what is can be done here. For now our focus is to make the app more functional for top email websites, then see what we can attack next.
For the clips in extension, yeah, I was thinking of it from the day one of this project, it is just also a question of resourcing and multiple priorities. But this is smth that is on our radar, just need to get to a place where we have a headspace to assess it properly.
P. S. On the moving icon here and there, we used to have several options of where you can pin it in the desktop version of MAX, but there were some technical difficulties that forced us to remove it. I will talk more on that internally too.
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Diana S
Please add the ability to select My Personal List as a destination when creating tasks from the extension. Currently, only Spaces, Folders, and Lists are available, but not My Personal List. This would make it much easier to quickly add personal tasks.
The feature of adding tasks to ClickUp from Gmail is amazing, please keep it.
Jason Joseph
Diana S I second both of these requests.
Alex Lashkov
Diana S yeah we already have a PoC that can do both things! Just need to polish the UX here because it is a bit different from what we used to have in the old extension
Alex Lashkov
Jason Joseph gotcha!
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Shawn Clement
Alex Lashkov It would be really helpful if the extension allowed us to set custom field values at the time a task is created.
For example, we use ClickUp for support tickets. Often, tickets start from an email or chat, and we create the task directly using the ClickUp extension. As part of our workflow, we try to capture specific details like task start date and other custom field data. Right now, that requires creating the task first, then going back into ClickUp to find it and manually update those fields.
Being able to set custom fields directly within the extension during task creation would save time, reduce back-and-forth steps, and help ensure more consistent data capture from the start. Alex Lashkov
Natalie Williams
Shawn Clement, having custom fields available within the extension would be a huge time saver.
Alex Lashkov
Shawn Clement responded on that in another thread, yeah. I will do some digging on how we best implement that and if the AI can do it seamslessly
Alex Lashkov
Natalie Williams understood!
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Vincent D'Amico
Alex Lashkov
Wanted to just follow up on this to say I think you're on the right track with us no matter what people are saying. If they don't have AI, they don't have AI. But we need the application extension to be able to have the full context of the actual task, not just what's visible on the image.
And of course having the safe prongs to be able to dump things to specific rules would be super helpful. Because it's coming up as we're actually doing these things. We need to have these specific rules and things in place. So if I want to use automations to help me with this. I could use an automation or if I want to use an agent to help, then I could use an agent to help. But I need to have a way to do that.
Alex Lashkov
Vincent D'Amico Happy to hear that! We are thinking of how we could satisfy some non-AI workflows asks, but agents and things like that is the key for unlocking real productivity anyway
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Vincent D'Amico
Alex Lashkov sounds great, and I would love it and have been pushing for non ai features for 4 years.
Would love to see Custom Fields for Spaces load to be able to Intake information based on what Space I need to create a task for. Sometimes I also work between different Clickup workspaces between companies that use the platform.
Alex Lashkov
Vincent D'Amico: that may be a bit too advanced for our level now, I was talking more of a way of creating tasks/attaching emails via clickthrough workflows, but we will see what we can do!
LBell
Alex Lashkov Thinking more on this, attaching the email isn't ideal, as often there's a bunch of stuff that doesn't need to be in Clickup (and visible to others). I'd love JUST a link back to the email.
To that point, for gmail, changing the link from:
to
makes the link work even if I archive the message out of the inbox.
Alex Lashkov
LBell I see, it is a bit different use case + we also want to cover Outlook and Front with the same mechanism, working with URLs there might be different. We will need to do a digging here, but thanks for the hint!
Adrian Arama
The most important feature was the email integration, adding the possibility to create tasks from email by adding the email as attachement. This was removing the friction of going into the app and creating tasks, filling all the mandatory fields and so on.
For technical teams or teams that work on tickets (responsive approach vs planning), this was golden.
Please make sure that rules and automations apply to these kind of tasks created from the extension, as this feature was buggy in the older version.
Looking forward to, as this is making major improvements in usability
Alex Lashkov
Adrian Arama we work on adding this easy clickthrough way of adding a task from email. What exactly was not working automations-wise there though? Not sure I understand that part fully.
Adrian Arama
Alex Lashkov Hi Alex,
Thanks for picking this up. Let me explain my comment in more detail
Every list contains certain custom fields, automation rules,mandatory fields and so on.
When using the chrome extension to add tasks from Gmail in the past, these tasks were bypassing the rules set for that particular list, space.
Mandatory fields were not required, because the extension interface was "reading" only the basic fields like "assignee", "priority" and "deadline".
If I had 2 mandatory fields set for the list, let's say "Customer" (dropdown) and "type of service" (label), I was not able to set these fields from the extension and creating the task with complete information.
Also if the certain list had an automation set, let's say another label custom field that should be added when a task enters a certain status, the automation was not applied to the tasks created through the extension.
This is what I meant, I hope it is more straight-fw now.
One thing to alwasy keep in mind is that people hate to introduce data in more than one place. Even worse, most of technical people don't do it at all because they are more focused on the solution that on documenting the requirement.
For us, the ability to create tasks from emails with 2-3 clicks was the main reason why we moved from Jira to ClickUp. It made it easier for people to use the app
Jason Joseph
Adrian Arama I second this. The Mandatory Fields need to be better addressed via the Extension.
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Yann CHEKROUN
Is it planned to let us use the saved brain prompts in the extension as well?
Alex Lashkov
Yann CHEKROUN hey! yes we have task for that, but just limited capacity to pick it up right away
Neel C
I really need the notes feature in it, previously was also not usable due to bugginess. This time seems very seamless & snappy, but now can't take notes at all. Notes is the most important one for us, so please let us know when it is going to be added. Overall speed wise looks great but this AI first thing unfortunately is starting to be very annoying for us as they don't add that much value as much these basic features will and yet you guys are prioritizing that. Hope you understand
Alex Lashkov
Neel C can you pls elaborate more on the notes in the extension exact use case? We do not see this ask often and therefore this feature was not yet prioritized for porting from an old one to be frank
Natalie Williams
Alex Lashkov I used the notepad feature all the time until it became so dang buggy that it cost time rather than saved it.
I always kept a quick list for anything that pops to mind while working to keep apps/tabs to a minimum. (These are not always things that require tasks.)
Anything that gets referenced while working, I kept in notes (i.e. code snippets, visual brand details, common responses, links referenced for specific projects).
There are other ways to do this, of course, but having the notes right there in the extension, no matter where I was working saved so much time and kept my digital workspace clutter-free.
LBell
Can we stop with the AI drool-fest and just let me easily create a task from what I'm looking at?
90% of the time it's a Gmail message. Occasionally it's a grant application webpage I need to remember.
None of that requires AI mucking things up.
Alex Lashkov
LBell we are working on that too!
Natalie Williams
LBell agreed! I just need to be able to create a task or bookmark a link. I don't need anything to be done with it no AI summaries or recommended tasks or action steps. Honestly, there are things that people spend time doing with AI that don't need to be done in the first place, which is the opposite of being productive.
Natalie Williams
Jason Joseph yes the original extension does, but it's buggy.
Frank Filippelli
I love that you guys are deciding to build another chrome extension because the old one needed some love for a while now. But please do keep all the functionality that made the old one great. Please do not be so consumed with all this AI crap that it clouds you good judgment. I know investors love it, but AI can not solve all problems and it is not the silver bullet for limited functionality and bad design... So, what I'm saying is PLEASE don't make the extension less usable with this update 🙏
Alex Lashkov
Frank Filippelli we will not be retiring an old one before we can suggest a viable alternative. It has been decided that we will be AI-first in a new extension, and it is working quite good like that! But we will be also adding non-AI workflows too!
JT
Process recording tools and functions like Tango or Guidde is a must. Having to use these tools then copy into clickup docs is a pain. Please bring these standardized process creation and recording documents to clickup. Tango is nice because it literally will force you to walk through it. While Guidde is nice because it creates an Ai video after.
Alex Lashkov
JT not quite sure of the workflow here. Can you please describe step by step?
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