Listen, I get Zeb threatened your life if you didnt promise to shove AI bloat into everything you do, thats why he laid of 20 percent of the company, but as someone who has to use your awful management tool, that is just a contractor please for the love of god stop shoving this shit in my face. I cannot disable the paid-for-by-the-company AI Slop my co-workers think is necessary, and it forces me to sit through constant (pointless) UX updates to try and direct me to use your god awful AI Tools.
If I wanted to use something akin to Brain2, I'd dockerize my own agents.
I've had to make HTML blacklists just to make clickup usable and presentable again as it seems there is no user-friendly way to disable the AI bloat and constant re-organization.
Please, please add consent toggles for every-day users that cant manage app billing/admin perms for their entire company and just want to work a minimum wage job in peace without your nepo-baby millionaire shoving his agentic garbage down my throat every day i wake up.

Stuff i noticed that should not be an issue in a company like clickup.

1. reordering HELL

Reordering SUBTASKS is absolute hell. It hits like 10% of the time. I cant reorder without nesting as sub-subtask unintentionally, it’s like a pixel perfect challenge that makes me look like an idiot when i share my screen. This one of the most important, basic fixes that are necessary now.

2. selling ai to me

stop it. This is supposed to he a professional tool. For companies. My employees see the ai features and i look like i dont care about them having the best features. Which is of course untrue, we just dont need it. It also looks bad when i share my screen on calls and i get a banner or stuff like that. I saw that they removed the popups, which is great, but i believe that a professional tool needs to look clean, not like it’s asking for money at every corner

3. speed

i am pro user, i use it for hours every day. I know exactly where things are, but slowness and my next two points punish me for being a fast user. I feel like the app can’t go “as fast as me”, and my connection or device aren’t the issue

4. unsaved progress

sometimes i add many tasks or subtasks quickly. Despite my connection being solid, like really solid, stuff sometimes just… isnt saved.

or another one, sometimes clickup’s backend does’t sync with the frontend. So i may duplicate a task, change its name, then the name actually goes back to the initial post-duplication name.

Issues like these are common on both the list view (unacceptable as it is the main view) and the gantt view

5. moving stuff

i’d like to have access to something that updates me on what features that i use often are changed. Like when they changed the assign comment button location, i thought they removed it.

Or when they removed the task tray feature thing, replacing it with the favourites.

Conclusion

most of us use clickup and love it for what it used to be. Maybe new users love the new stuff, but we don’t.

And there’s gonna come a day when the cost of keeping clickup vs the cost of switching (or vibe coding our own) are gonna tip over in favour of switching.

I also noticed some of their emails are clearly vibe coded (html stuff) with ai (claude). I use ai too, nothing wrong with it, but it makes me wonder what their priorities are since they didnt even bother to clean the look of email and fix the vibe coded look.

hoping it improves soon

Is there a way to use Clickup Planner without linking it to an external calendar?

AI Agents: I started using these more today and honestly I'm pretty impressed. Here I am over in Claude working hard to train my agents/project with a lot of the same info that is already sitting in CU. Silly me.

But.... Does clickup swing both ways? Can a clickup agent easily use non CU resources? Example: Over in claude I give each agent ( I create one per agency client ) access to it's own folder in Google Drive and it's own local Obsidian folder full of markup files. I know that CU agents have access to Google Drive in general but I don't see a way to point it to a specific folder there.

(Also posted in FB group)

We started to use clickup years ago. With many companies. hundreds of dollars a month subscription. Today, I think we have to leave. Clickup has made that tool so heavy, it's no longer that why we used it compared to Jira. Is anyone else feeling they lost their way? I truly belive they should run a light version that does simple task management without all that crap.

All of this pushing for us to use AI features yet we can't even get a detailed view of how the credits are being spent. I tried using the AI agents to circumvent missing features that should already be added like automatically setting subtask due dates to a set amount of time BEFORE the main task's due date. The credit usage shot up quick, so I'd like look and analyze the usage for the current billing period. But you CANNOT view your credit usage during previous months for the feature that ClickUp is pushing so very hard! Only the current month is available to view.

It's genuinely insulting. There are so many missing features and quality of life fixes that are being put on hold so ClickUp can shove AI at us, and then when you finally give in and adjust your workflow to implement the new AI feature, they hide the usage data so you can't track it! It's obvious they want to get you dependent on AI then pull the rug out from under you once you unknowingly hit your credit limit to force you to fork over more money or switch back to your old process and hope that they release the feature you need in the next couple years.

And how is this ethical? We are paying for these credits but can barely view how they're being spent? We just have to trust that the system is tracking it accurately? It's like the credits disappear into a void if you don't screenshot the page at the end of each month. I see online in some places that you need to contact them to get a full report, and while I don't know if that's even true, that's ridiculous. I shouldn't need to contact support whenever I want to look into the usage of a currency that we are paying for and its automatic consumption is calculated entirely by ClickUp.

We have a finite amount of AI credits, so let us analyze our usage and create a plan. I can't believe that even needs to be said.

Hey r/ClickUp,

I'm Jay and I lead the AI team here at ClickUp. For the past year my team has been rebuilding ClickUp Brain from the ground up to be a frontier agent offering - We call it Brain².

The short version: Brain² is designed to actually do work with you, not just answer questions. It has full context on your workspace, can take action (create tasks, update projects, search across your tools, draft docs), and reasons across multiple pieces of work instead of treating each prompt like an isolated question. It also has memory, so it learns how you work over time.

Some things I'm happy to dig into:

• What's actually different under the hood vs. the old Brain
• Where Brain² saves real time in day-to-day workflows
• How we think about autonomy vs. keeping humans in control
• The best first use cases if you're just trying it out
• How connected apps and cross-workspace reasoning works
• What feedback from early users changed our direction
• How I think about building useful AI inside a productivity tool (vs. chat-in-a-box)

I'll be answering questions live on the post, Tuesday, July 7th, from 9am to 11am PT. Drop questions below now, and I'll hit them when I'm there.

Thanks! Excited to chat.

Proof:

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A bit about me:
A bit about me: I've been at ClickUp building the AI org since the acquisition of Codegen, a startup I built over the past 4 years for agentic software engineering. Before that I was doing ML research and building AI products at Palantir and various startups. I think most "AI features" in SaaS are demos pretending to be products, and my job is making sure ours isn't. Happy to talk about that tension too.

Hoping someone here has cracked this because support hasn't yet.

A few weeks ago, notifications for Chat thread replies quietly stopped reaching me. If I start a thread and someone replies, I get nothing in my Inbox and nothing in the "Unread" view. The only clue anything happened is a small blue dot on the channel itself, so the only way to know there's a reply is to manually open every channel and check. Not workable when you're running a busy workspace.

A few things worth flagging:

• Notifications are definitely on. The thread menu still shows "Turn off notifications for replies", so they're enabled.
• I haven't touched any notification settings on my end.
• It's not one thread. It's happening across multiple threads and channels.
• It started out as just me, but now several of my team are reporting the same missing notifications.

What I've already tried: logged out and back in to clear the notification cache, double-checked both global and channel-level notification settings, confirmed I'm on the latest version, and tested by replying from a second account. No change.

Is anyone else seeing thread reply notifications disappear from Unread/Inbox and only showing as a blue dot? Did you find a cause or a workaround? Trying to work out if this is a known bug or something in our workspace config.

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Working with getting this setup for my team. Running into an issue where my previously saved custom automation disappeared. There are saved instances of it working in the Activity Log, but I am unable to locate and edit it. Any advise?

Hi we are new to using ClickupNew click up user looking for advice

We had used Monday.com for a month or two to manage projects and had got to the stage where we were testing it on live projects but we have decided to trial Clickup as well before we commit to Monday long term.

On Monday.com we have 2 boards - Projects and Tasks. New projects are created from a form, then all the tasks for the project are created via automations in the Tasks board and assigned the tasks to the correct people based on information in the form.

All projects will follow the same steps but the people who tasks are assigned to will be different by project - we used a project creation form for this.

We might have 20-30 active projects running at one time.

Should I look to replicate this in some way in Clickup or would there be a better route to go down - using a template?

Thanks!

My company is an enterprise client but our in-house ClickUp expert is out on leave.

I want to set up a system to track and manage the licensing of third-party content in clickup. This info is in different spreadsheets but I want to manage it all in ClickUp.

I don't have the time or patience to learn how to do it. I have a list of what I want/need and want someone to set it up for me, or at least set it up enough for me to try it out...

anyways, let me know if it's possible to work with someone to discuss what I want, see if its possible and if they can set it up themselves as a template or something. Thanks!!!

It feels like every time I start it up theres a new bloody popup trying to get me to use an AI feature. I get it, you want to inform people about stuff. You've invested a bunch into AI. But noone needs three popups about Brain. I literally couldn't care less about Brain snidely chiding your CEO as if that's supposed to be a good thing.

Wanna know what I asked Brain today?
"How do I turn off the constant barrage of in-app new feature notifications or popups?"

Yes, the modals never comes up again once you close it, but that doesn't stop new ones. We're close to the point where we're genuinely thinking about moving to another less annoying platform and recommending clients to do the same.

I run a WordPress development agency. Alongside building sites, we do recurring maintenance for clients, and I manage this in ClickUp with my team.

What I'm trying to do:

I want a maintenance task to land in my employee John's list on a fixed date — the 1st of every other month (July 1, Sept 1, Nov 1, etc.). John does the work sometime over the following weeks and drags the task to Done. It should then sit in Done until the next scheduled date, at which point it returns to his list automatically.

The problem:

The task comes back one day after he completes it, not on the next scheduled date.

Example: The task is due July 1 and appears in John's list. He does the work on July 22 and moves it to Done. Instead of staying in Done until Sept 1, it bounces back into his list on July 23. If he then completes it again, it returns the next day, and so on.

What I want instead:

The task should only return to John on the 1st of the scheduled month, regardless of when he completed it. If he finishes on July 22, it stays in Done until Sept 1. If he then finishes on Sept 4, it stays in Done until Nov 1. Completion date should not affect the trigger — only the calendar should.

This way my overview stays clean and I can see at a glance what's genuinely still outstanding versus what's already been handled this cycle.

My current setup:

• Recurring: Custom → Every 2 months → on date → 1st
• Trigger: "On a schedule"
• Recur forever: ✅
• Update status to: TASK JOHN ✅

The only trigger options available to me are "On status change: Complete," "On status change: Done," and "On a schedule." I'm already using "On a schedule" but it still re-triggers based on completion.

My question:

How do I configure this so the recurrence is locked to the calendar date and completely ignores when the task was marked Done? Is "Create new task" the right approach here, or is there a way to make the status-based recurrence behave on a fixed schedule?

Thanks in advance.

IMAGE: Dates is set for tomorrow because tomorrow is also 1 of july but it's set every 2 months on the first so thats why its also tommorow :)

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New to Click Up & LMDM. Every source, including click up help & their AI says you can have custom fields on a subtask but have them not show on the parent task. For example, checkboxes that are vital to a subtask, but make no sense as a field on a parent task. Even following click up's very basic directions does not get these fields to show on the subtasks. ​what gives? Is my whole Click Up experience going to be like this??

I manage client work in ClickUp and kept struggling to turn tasks into clean, branded reports clients actually enjoy reading - so I built ClickReports.

You connect a ClickUp list, add your logo, and export a polished PDF in minutes. It works alongside ClickUp (pulls via the API), not instead of it.

It's still early and I'm opening a small paid beta. Genuine question for fellow ClickUp users: is client reporting a real pain for you, or have you already solved it? Anything you'd want in a report?

Link if you want a look: clickreports.vercel.app

Been using ClickUp for about 2 years for my agency. When Brain first came out I tried it couple of times, thought it was meh.

Yesterday one of my employees presented slides to us that were shockingly well built - she mentioned that she used Brain for them.

So this morning I started using Brain and now I haven't used Claude all day... anyone else having similar aha moments?

Hi all! At the request of a coworker, I successfully connected our entire ClickUp workspace to our MS Teams account. My question now is... what does this integration actually do? Does anyone utilize this in their own workplace? What I'm finding seems to be the two platforms can feed each other notifications but what else is there to offer? Is it a useful integration? Any advice helps, thank you!