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Create ClickUp tasks from email
Turn any email into a ClickUp task in seconds, without leaving your inbox. It works with every email provider, and there is nothing to install or set up.
Ben Okafor
Amends to the spring brochure
Your instructions
Add this to the Design Requests list as high priority for Amy.
ClickUp
Add a task for the brochure amends
Design Requests, high priority, for Amy
You receive a confirmation email once complete, with an undo button that works for 24 hours.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "add this to the Design Requests list as high priority for Amy".
The task appears on the list from your instructions, with the priority and the assignee set from the same line.
You receive a confirmation email containing a link to the new task, plus an undo button if something doesn't look right.
What is ForwardThis?
ForwardThis is an AI email assistant that turns email into action in 144+ of the apps you use every day.
Works with any email
Compatible with any personal or professional email provider. Gmail, Outlook and more.
144+ apps
Works across the apps you already use, with more added every month.
Setup in seconds
Nothing to install and no workflows to build. Sign up, forward an email, and it runs.
Secure & private
ForwardThis only acts on the emails you send it, and the email is deleted within 24 hours of the work being done.
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
FAQs
- How do I create a ClickUp task from an email?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "add this to the Design Requests list as high priority for Amy". ForwardThis adds the task and replies with a link. The first time, you will need a free ForwardThis account with ClickUp connected. It takes about 30 seconds.
- Which list does the task go into?
- Whichever your instructions name. With only one list, ForwardThis uses it without asking.
- Can it set the priority and assignee?
- Yes. Your instructions can set the priority (urgent, high, normal or low) and assign a named person when the task is created.
- Doesn't ClickUp have its own email-to-task address?
- It does. ClickUp lists can have their own email addresses that turn a message into a task, and it works well. The difference is that ForwardThis is one address for every list, the priority and assignee come from plain instructions, and the reply links to the task it created.
- Can it attach the email's files to the task?
- Yes. Say so in your instructions and the files go on with it; the confirmation lists each one.
- Does it work with Outlook and other email apps?
- Yes. ForwardThis works with any email provider: Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and everything else. If it can forward an email, it works.
- What happens to my email afterwards?
- It gets deleted. ForwardThis holds your email briefly in case you press undo, then removes it completely. Nothing is stored long term.