Productivity platform known as ClickUp has launched a revamped calendar tool that integrates tasks, docs, chats, and meetings in one place. The most interesting features of the calendar are an integrated AI meeting notetaker and AI-powered time blocking for tasks.
Prior to this moment, ClickUp had a calendar product, that focused more on team management and scheduling. Last year, the a16z- and Tiger Global-backed company acquired calendar startup Hypercal. It is now using parts of that acquisition in the new calendar product.
Moving forward, the company focuses on personal productivity in the workplace by putting tasks at the forefront. Users can add tasks in a queue and have the calendar automatically block time slots based on their schedule. The calendar can adjust due dates based on schedule and priority level changes. Alternatively, users can manually drag and drop tasks in the calendar view and change pre-assigned priority levels.
ClickUp also introduces an AI-powered notetaker that joins your meetings, like Read AI, Zoom’s AI assistant, Circleback, Granola, or Otter. This AI-powered calendar words like agentic AI in most cases. The company said that, apart from taking structured notes and transcribing the meeting, it can automatically assign action items and tasks to your teammates. In a survey conducted by the company, 71% of respondents said they would be comfortable sending a proxy or an AI assistant to a meeting on their behalf.
ClickUp’s founder and CEO, Zeb Evans maintained that the company trains its AI tool to pick up different signals from a person’s integrations (such as a GitHub assignee) and tune the prioritization algorithm accordingly.
Moreover, an AI assistant can answer questions about tasks, documents, schedules, meeting notes, and transcripts. You can also schedule a meeting by describing it to the AI assistant.
ClickUp is being modelled like an all-in-one productivity platform for users. It already had task management and project management. However, its growth process now entails meeting note-taking and AI-powered scheduling. Other platforms are also trying to expand their offerings in the productivity space to become more valuable to individual workers. Earlier this week, Read AI introduced a search copilot to let users search across meeting notes, Google Drive, One Drive, calendar, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Salesforce, Jira, and more. Atlassian’s Trello, which primarily focuses on project management, introduced new features for personal task organization last month.
Evans said that the company focuses on converging all these tools in one place, giving the company an advantage over specialized tools with the AI-powered calendar.
“I believe that all software in a few years will converge, and this is what we believed when we started ClickUp. We think that work management and collaboration communication categories would converge, and that’s how our product is built. There is no separate app within our product. It’s all one thing,” he said.
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