Managing work effectively has always been at the heart of successful teams. With the rise of remote work, hybrid teams, and distributed global offices, having the right task management tool has never been more important. While there are plenty of project management apps available today, one of the best places to manage tasks is right where your team already communicates—Slack.
In this blog, we’ll explore how to create, assign, and manage tasks in Slack. We’ll cover everything from simple assignments to round robin and scheduled tasks, and show you how Pagerly makes Slack the ultimate hub for task management.
When we talk about slack tasks, we’re referring to specific tasks that need to be completed by an individual, a team, or even the entire team. In a Slack workspace, tasks can be linked to due dates, slack messages, or created using workflow builder for automated project management workflows.
By starting small with simple assignments, these tasks quickly evolve into a structured task list that supports project managers, team leaders, and relevant team members across different projects.
Creating a new task in Slack is a great way to capture action items without switching to different apps.
Project managers and team leaders rely on Slack to track progress in real time.
Slack is a project management app that simplifies daily task management and routine tasks.
Inbound requests are one of the most common specific tasks for support teams and sales teams.
For marketing teams, Slack serves as a collaboration tool and task management software for running marketing campaigns.
Slack has become the go-to collaboration tool for modern teams because of its ease of use, real-time updates, and seamless integrations. Here’s why it excels at task management:
Slack makes it possible to create tasks automatically through integrations. For example, with Pagerly:
For manual creation, you can:
This gives teams flexibility to capture both structured project management workflows and ad-hoc requests.
Assigning tasks effectively is one of the key features of any task management software. It ensures that the right people are aligned with the right tools, while giving project managers, team leaders, and the entire team visibility into who is doing what. With Slack alone, you can tag a Slack user, share tasks in direct messages, or post them in a project channel. But when you add Pagerly into the mix, assignment becomes seamless, automated, and scalable for modern teams.
Pagerly enhances task creation inside your Slack workspace by offering multiple ways to assign specific tasks, ensuring both small teams and remote teams can achieve effective task management.
With Pagerly, every slack message can be turned into a new task and assigned automatically.
By offering one-by-one and scheduled assignment, Pagerly provides the flexibility needed for different projects and specific needs:
This combination of automation and ease of use transforms Slack from just a communication tool into one of the best task management apps for seamless team collaboration.
Creating and assigning tasks is only part of the picture. For effective task management, teams also need the ability to transition tasks as work progresses. With Pagerly inside your Slack workspace, you can handle the entire approval workflow—approve, reject, assign to the next person, or reassign to a specific person—all without leaving Slack.
This capability turns Slack from just a communication tool into a complete task management software solution, helping modern teams streamline their project management workflows.
By enabling task transitions directly in Slack, Pagerly makes it possible for the entire team to collaborate without switching to different apps:
This full approval workflow—approve, reject, reassign, escalate—ensures tasks not only get created but also move efficiently through every stage until completion.
One of the key features of any project management tool is reporting. Without visibility, even the best task management software struggles to deliver true value. For modern teams working inside a Slack workspace, reporting helps project managers, team leaders, and the entire team see how specific tasks are progressing, where delays are occurring, and whether the right people are completing important tasks on time.
Slack provides reporting in two powerful ways: CSV Reports for external analysis and Slack Reports for real time visibility within your Slack workspace.
Exporting data to CSV is a great way to track and analyze specific tasks across different projects, especially when you need advanced visualization or external project management app integration.
CSV reporting acts as a bridge between Slack and other task management tools, offering flexibility while ensuring effective task management across entire teams.
While CSV supports external analysis, Slack Reports give you real time visibility inside your Slack workspace. These reports are crucial for effective task management, enabling project managers, team leaders, and relevant team members to see status updates, project updates, and slack messages without leaving Slack.
Both CSV and Slack Reports ensure effective task management by offering transparency and accountability. Together, they allow project managers and team leaders to:
This blend of flexibility (CSV) and ease of use (Slack Reports) makes Slack one of the best task management apps available today, especially when combined with Pagerly’s native Slack integration and automation through workflow builder.
Transparency is key to effective task management. Slack makes it easy to:
This visibility improves accountability and helps track progress in day-to-day work.
Slack’s workflow builder is a great tool for automating routine tasks and daily task management.
By combining Pagerly with workflow builder, you can fully automate project management workflows inside Slack.
One of the most overlooked parts of effective task management is ensuring specific tasks are completed before deadlines. Tasks without a clear due date can cause delays, missed deliverables, and unhappy stakeholders. With Pagerly, modern teams get proactive real time alerts in Slack when tasks approach or exceed SLA timelines.
Pagerly turns Slack into a proactive task management tool by sending alerts whenever important tasks are at risk of being delayed.
Keeping everyone informed is critical for seamless team collaboration. Pagerly supports multiple ways to notify the right people:
If deadlines slip, Pagerly automatically escalates alerts to team leaders or project managers, enabling effective task management and quick action.
Proactive SLA monitoring helps project managers, development teams, and marketing teams ensure projects stay on track:
By combining SLA alerts with slack messages, slack tasks, and workflow builder automations, Pagerly transforms Slack into one of the best task management apps for modern teams, enabling them to track tasks, manage inbound requests, and support day-to-day work with confidence.
Slack is already a strong communication tool, but Pagerly turns it into a complete project management tool. With native Slack integration, teams can create, assign, and transition tasks without switching to different apps, giving modern teams the ease of use they need.
Pagerly provides:
From small teams and remote teams to large enterprises handling complex projects, Pagerly supports project management workflows across different projects—from routine tasks to marketing campaigns and product releases.
With seamless team collaboration, automation, and effective task management, Pagerly transforms Slack into the ultimate task management software for teams that want to track progress and complete work more efficiently.
