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Most work starts as a Slack message: "can someone send the invoice?", "we need the deck by Friday". The trouble starts when that message scrolls away. To track team tasks and projects without leaving Slack, you need three things: a way to turn messages into tasks with an owner and a due date, a place to see what's open for each project, and reminders so nothing slips.
The quickest way to get all three is a task app built for Slack. Workast sets it up in about a minute, and it's free for unlimited users.
1. Install Workast to Slack. It takes under a minute. Everyone in your Slack workspace gets access straight away, with no invites, separate passwords or accounts.
2. Give each project a space. Type /todo in a project's channel and create a Workast space for it. The space holds that project's tasks, organised in lists for each stage. (Spaces for private channels and group DMs are on paid plans.)
3. Create tasks where the conversation happens. Type one line in the channel:
/todo Send client invitations Monday 9am @Blake
That creates the task, assigns it to Blake and sets the due date. You can also turn any Slack message into a task from its More actions menu, or use the Workast option in Slack's shortcuts menu.
4. See what's open. Type /todo list in the channel to see that project's open tasks. Complete or edit them from there, or share the list with the channel. Use /mytodo for private tasks only you can see.
5. Let reminders do the chasing. Each person can get a daily list in Slack of what's due and overdue, plus a reminder before each due time (30 minutes by default). They choose the days, time and what's included in their preferences.
6. Automate the routine. Set repeating tasks to come back daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. On paid plans, schedule saved reports to arrive in Slack, for example a Monday list of everything due that week, and collect requests with custom forms that create tasks automatically.
7. Step out of Slack only when you want to. Paid plans add a web app with list, board, calendar and timeline views for planning bigger projects. Everything stays in sync with Slack.
Workast's Essential plan is free for unlimited users and runs inside Slack. Standard is $39 per month for 8 users billed annually ($47 billed monthly), and Professional is $49 per month for 8 users billed annually ($59 monthly).
Slack also includes tools that track work on their own:
Lists (paid Slack plans). Create a list for a project, with assignee and due-date fields, and add any message to it. View it as a table or a board.
List automations (paid plans). Use Workflow Builder to notify assignees before items are due or overdue, or post a due-date summary to a channel.
/remind (all plans). Set one-off or recurring reminders for yourself, a teammate or a channel, for example: /remind #marketing to submit weekly reports every Friday at 10am.
To-dos (all plans). A personal to-do list: save a message as a to-do and give it a reminder or due date.
Together they cover simple tracking. Lists and list automations need a paid Slack plan, reminders for lists have to be built as workflows, and /remind and To-dos are personal rather than a shared team view.
If your team plans in Asana, Trello, Jira, Linear or monday.com, their Slack apps let you create tasks from messages and get updates in channels:
Asana: turn a message into a task, assign it, add it to a project, and see tasks with /asana.
Trello: create cards with /trello create or from a message, and get board activity in Slack.
Jira: create work items from messages and manage them by mentioning @Jira.
Linear: create issues from messages and keep threads in sync.
monday.com: create items from conversations and post board updates to channels.
That keeps everything in one place, but the project itself still lives in the other app, and each person needs an account there.
Can you manage projects entirely in Slack?
Yes. With Workast, each channel can be a project with its own task lists, and tasks are created, assigned, tracked and reminded inside Slack. Slack Lists also tracks project work on paid Slack plans.
How do I turn a Slack message into a task?
With Workast, open the message's More actions menu and choose Create a Task, then set the assignee and due date. In Slack Lists, add the message to a list from its menu.
How do I remind my team about deadlines in Slack?
Workast sends each person a daily list of due and overdue tasks and a reminder before each due time, with no setup. Slack's /remind handles one-off reminders, and list automations cover Slack Lists on paid plans.
About this page: written and published by Workast, which is why Workast is the setup we recommend here. Slack facts come from Slack's own help center. Both checked on 30 October 2026. Prices in USD.
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