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 🙏
The selling outcomes move at Crossnode is great. Most people get lost in the tech. You are actually helping people get paid.
One quick thing: Your site talks about "Premium Storefronts," but the first thing I see is a technical JSON file. It makes the Money part look like Coding Work. Why not show the $299 subscription screen instead of the code? That’s the dream you’re actually selling.
Plz make it connected to Notion, using API keys right now and read it from nowhere feels painful
Have you found that the agent was better at sticking to the details specified within the task board or have there been instances where it still deviated from the tasks you specified for it?
Now let it run 24/7 on the board with full orchestrator building & scaling an entire company into eternity
There’s a lot of these dashboard coming up now, how does yours separate itself?
Also, how does it handle assigning and delegating tasks? Do you manually assign? How does it know the order of things?
Thanks and congrats on the launch!
Congrats on the launch!
What are the clear benefits of giving your agent a taskboard and does it only work with OpenClaw? I'm curious how you see Clawther differ from @VidClaw .
very cool idea!! congrats on the launch guys!
btw do i get notified when a task changes it's state ( like going from to-do to done ) ?
oh this is so much needed, especially in the context of governance issues across ai agent entreprise use that's been spawning lately.
100% agree that chat is the wrong interface for agents doing real work. We've been building project management tools and the same thing comes up constantly. When agents are just responding in a thread, nobody knows what's actually getting done vs what's still pending.
The Notion task board angle is clever. Are you planning to support other PM tools eventually or going all-in on Notion as the backbone?
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 🙏