I accidentally connected my OpenClaw agent to Notion and realized something: Chat is the wrong interface for managing an agent. đź‘Ž Agents need a task board, not a conversation. With a task board you can track multiple tasks in parallel and share the power with your team just like you would collaborate with a human teammate. âś…
For the past few weeks I’ve been experimenting a lot with OpenClaw agents. Like most people, I was interacting with them through chat.
And it worked… until it didn’t.
Very quickly the conversation became messy: tasks buried in messages, things repeated, no visibility into what had already been done.
One day I accidentally connected the agent to a Notion task board. Suddenly everything felt different.
Instead of chatting with the agent endlessly, I could just create tasks. The agent would pick them up and execute them. And my team could see what was happening.
That’s when it clicked for me.
Chat is the wrong interface for managing agents.
Because of ChatGPT, many of us started thinking that chat is the interface for AI. That made sense when AI was mostly answering questions and giving information.
But now AI can actually do tasks.
And when work happens, conversations become chaos.
I believe we’ll see a shift: from chat interfaces to task interfaces for agents.
Agents don’t belong in conversations. They belong in task boards.
So I built Clawther: a task board layer for OpenClaw agents.
With it you can: • manage multiple tasks in parallel • track what the agent did • collaborate with your team • assign tasks to different agents
It’s still very much an MVP, but it’s already extremely useful for the way we work.
Curious to hear how others are managing their agents today. Happy to answer any questions and hear feedback 🙏
Hey everyone đź‘‹
This product started almost by accident.
For the past few weeks I’ve been experimenting a lot with OpenClaw agents. Like most people, I was interacting with them through chat.
And it worked… until it didn’t.
Very quickly the conversation became messy: tasks buried in messages, things repeated, no visibility into what had already been done.
One day I accidentally connected the agent to a Notion task board.
Suddenly everything felt different.
Instead of chatting with the agent endlessly, I could just create tasks.
The agent would pick them up and execute them.
And my team could see what was happening.
That’s when it clicked for me.
Chat is the wrong interface for managing agents.
Because of ChatGPT, many of us started thinking that chat is the interface for AI. That made sense when AI was mostly answering questions and giving information.
But now AI can actually do tasks.
And when work happens, conversations become chaos.
I believe we’ll see a shift:
from chat interfaces to task interfaces for agents.
Agents don’t belong in conversations.
They belong in task boards.
So I built Clawther: a task board layer for OpenClaw agents.
With it you can:
• manage multiple tasks in parallel
• track what the agent did
• collaborate with your team
• assign tasks to different agents
It’s still very much an MVP, but it’s already extremely useful for the way we work.
Curious to hear how others are managing their agents today.
Happy to answer any questions and hear feedback 🙏