Maya runs a twelve-person design agency. On a typical Monday morning, she opens ClickUp to check the week’s tasks, Google Calendar to see what meetings are scheduled, Gmail to catch anything urgent from clients, Slack to check what her team posted over the weekend, and a time-tracking app to see where last week’s hours went. Five apps. Five logins. Five different interfaces, each with their own notification badge demanding attention.
By the time she’s reviewed everything, thirty minutes have passed and she hasn’t actually started working yet.
After she set up OpenClaw with the right combination of skills, that same Monday morning looks different. She opens Telegram and types: “Monday briefing.” Her Moltbot agent pulls her ClickUp tasks, calendar events, unread emails, Slack mentions, and time-tracking summary into a single formatted response. She reads it in two minutes, replies with a few adjustments (“move the Acme deadline to Wednesday,” “block 2pm for the design review”), and she’s working by 9:15.
The difference isn’t one skill. It’s the combination. Individual OpenClaw skills are useful on their own — we covered the best ones in our best productivity skills roundup. But the real time savings come when you wire multiple skills together into workflows that replace the morning ritual of opening six tabs and switching between them.
Here are five workflow combinations we’ve tested on real work. Each one uses two to four OpenClaw skills together, with step-by-step setup instructions and the actual results we measured.
Workflow 1: Project Management + Calendar + Email
Skills used: clickup, cal-com, Gmail skill
The problem: Project deadlines live in ClickUp. Meeting schedules live in Google Calendar. Client communications live in Gmail. Keeping all three aligned requires constant cross-referencing. A task is due Thursday, but there’s a client meeting Wednesday afternoon that might change the scope. An email came in Friday evening requesting a revision, but it hasn’t been reflected in the project timeline yet.
The workflow:
Every morning, Maya asks her agent for a combined view:
Show me all ClickUp tasks due this week, my calendar for the next 3 days, and any unread emails from clients.The agent pulls from all three sources and returns a unified briefing. Tasks are listed with their deadlines and assignees. Calendar events are shown with times and attendees. Emails are summarized with sender, subject, and a one-line preview.
But the real value comes from the follow-up actions.
“The Acme logo revision email came in Friday. Create a ClickUp task for it, due Wednesday, assigned to Tomoko.”
One message. The agent creates the task in the right ClickUp list with the correct deadline and assignee. No switching to ClickUp, no filling out forms, no copy-pasting the email content.
“Schedule a 30-minute review with Tomoko tomorrow afternoon before the Acme deadline.”
The agent checks both Maya’s and Tomoko’s availability through cal-com, finds an open slot, and creates the meeting. No “does 2pm work?” back-and-forth.
Setup steps:
- Install all three skills:
clawhub install clickup
clawhub install cal-com- Configure ClickUp with your API token (generate one in ClickUp Settings > Apps):
export CLICKUP_API_TOKEN=your_token_here- Configure cal-com with your API key:
export CALCOM_API_KEY=your_key_here-
Configure the Gmail skill with OAuth credentials following its setup instructions.
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Test each skill individually to confirm they’re working before combining them.
Results: Maya’s Monday morning review went from 30 minutes across five apps to 8 minutes in a single chat window. Task creation from emails dropped from a 4-step process (read email, switch to ClickUp, create task, copy details) to one message.
Workflow 2: Task Management + Slack + Daily Standups
Skills used: todoist-rs, Slack skill, meeting-notes
The problem: Dev teams that use Todoist for personal task management and Slack for team communication end up with information scattered across both. You finish a task in Todoist but forget to update the team in Slack. Someone posts a question in a Slack channel that creates a new task, but you don’t add it to Todoist until three days later when you remember. And standup meetings generate action items that live in everyone’s memory until they don’t.
The workflow:
Diego, a senior developer, starts each morning with:
Show my Todoist tasks for today and any Slack messages mentioning me since yesterday.His agent returns today’s task list alongside any Slack mentions, DMs, or thread replies he needs to address. He triages both in the same conversation.
“Add a task: investigate the caching bug Carlos mentioned in #backend, due today, labeled ‘urgent’.”
The task lands in Todoist with the right label and due date. No context switching.
After the daily standup meeting, Diego sends the audio recording to his agent:
“Transcribe this standup and extract action items.”
The meeting-notes skill processes the recording and returns a structured list: who said what, what decisions were made, and what action items were assigned. Diego reviews the list and turns his items into Todoist tasks:
“Add these action items to Todoist: review the auth PR by end of day, write migration script for the database change by Thursday.”
Both tasks are created. The standup’s action items went from verbal agreements to tracked tasks in under a minute.
Setup steps:
- Install the skills:
clawhub install todoist-rs
clawhub install meeting-notes- Configure Todoist with your API token (found in Todoist Settings > Integrations > Developer):
export TODOIST_API_TOKEN=your_token_here-
Configure the Slack skill with your workspace’s bot token.
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For meeting-notes, ensure your agent has access to audio files (you can send recordings through your messaging app).
Results: Diego estimated he was losing 15-20 minutes per day to the friction between Todoist and Slack. Action items from standups used to have a ~60% capture rate — people would forget to log them. With the meeting-notes extraction step, capture rate went to nearly 100%. The items that used to slip through the cracks — the “oh wait, didn’t we agree to do that?” moments — stopped happening.
Workflow 3: Calendar + Email + Weekly Planning
Skills used: cal-com, Gmail skill, mission-control
The problem: Weekly planning requires pulling information from multiple sources. What happened last week? What’s scheduled for next week? Which emails need follow-up? Which meetings need preparation? Assembling this picture manually means opening three apps and spending twenty minutes building a mental model of the week ahead.
The workflow:
Every Sunday evening, Kenji runs a weekly planning session with his agent:
Give me my weekly review: last week's calendar summary, any emails still needing replies, and next week's schedule.His agent, powered by mission-control aggregating data from cal-com and the email skill, returns a comprehensive view. Last week’s meetings listed with attendees and any notes. Emails flagged as needing a response. Next week’s calendar laid out day by day.
Kenji reads through it and makes decisions:
“Move the Thursday design sync to Friday at 10am — I need Thursday for deep work.”
The agent reschedules through cal-com.
“Draft a reply to the Terraform proposal email: ‘Looks good, let’s discuss in our Wednesday meeting. Can you add the cost estimates before then?’”
The agent drafts the email. Kenji reviews, approves, and it sends.
“Block Monday and Tuesday mornings for focused coding. No meetings before noon.”
The agent creates calendar blocks for both mornings.
In fifteen minutes, Kenji has reviewed the past week, planned the next one, handled outstanding emails, and protected his focus time. All from the couch with his phone.
Setup steps:
- Install the skills:
clawhub install cal-com
clawhub install mission-control-
Configure cal-com for calendar access (see Workflow 1 setup).
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Configure the email skill for Gmail or Outlook access.
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Mission-control aggregates data from the other installed skills automatically. No additional configuration needed beyond ensuring the source skills are working.
Results: Kenji’s Sunday planning session used to take 40 minutes and felt like homework. With this workflow, it takes 15 minutes and happens conversationally. He described it as “the difference between doing a chore and having a conversation about my week.” The calendar blocking step — protecting focus time — was something he rarely did manually because it required opening Google Calendar and creating events. Now it’s one sentence, so he does it every week.
Workflow 4: Project Management + Time Tracking + Client Reporting
Skills used: clickup, time-tracking skill, Google Sheets skill
The problem: Client-facing teams need to report on hours spent, tasks completed, and project progress. This usually means exporting data from the project management tool, cross-referencing it with time-tracking logs, formatting everything into a spreadsheet, and sending it to the client. It’s tedious enough that most teams only do it monthly, when it should happen weekly.
The workflow:
Sonia manages three client projects simultaneously. Every Friday, she generates a client update:
Show me all completed ClickUp tasks this week for the Riverside project with their time entries.Her agent pulls completed tasks from ClickUp and matches them with time-tracking data. She gets a list: task name, assignee, hours logged, completion date.
Format that as a table and add it to the Riverside weekly report sheet in Google Sheets.The agent creates a formatted table in the shared Google Sheet that the client has access to. Column headers, task names, hours, status — all populated automatically.
What's the total hours this week and how does it compare to last week?The agent calculates the sum and pulls last week’s data for comparison. “This week: 34.5 hours across 12 tasks. Last week: 28 hours across 9 tasks. Up 23%.”
Sonia adds a brief note at the top of the sheet with context — “Increased hours this week due to the homepage redesign sprint” — and the weekly report is done. Ten minutes, start to finish. She repeats this for the other two clients.
Setup steps:
- Install the skills:
clawhub install clickup-
Install your time-tracking skill of choice and configure it with API credentials.
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Install and configure a Google Sheets skill with Google API OAuth credentials.
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Set up your Google Sheets templates ahead of time. Create the spreadsheet structure once, and the agent populates it each week.
Results: Before this workflow, Sonia’s Friday reporting took 90 minutes across three clients. Each report required opening ClickUp, filtering tasks, switching to the time tracker, exporting hours, opening Google Sheets, and manually entering everything. With the combined workflow, all three reports take 30 minutes total. The 60 minutes she saved became an hour of actual project work every Friday.
Workflow 5: Notes + Knowledge Base + Research
Skills used: triple-memory-skill, web research skill, flowmind
The problem: Knowledge workers accumulate information constantly — meeting takeaways, articles worth referencing, decisions made in passing, technical details that matter later. Most of this information goes into notes that are never searched again, or worse, into memory that fades by next week. Finding something you know you read three weeks ago means searching through Notion, Slack, email, and your browser history.
The workflow:
Jordan, a product manager, uses triple-memory-skill as a persistent knowledge base that lives inside his agent.
Throughout the day, he stores important information as it comes up:
Remember: the API rate limit for the partner integration is 1000 requests per hour. Sarah confirmed this in the Tuesday sync.Remember: the Q2 launch date is April 15, but legal review needs to complete by March 28.Remember: the competitor launched a similar feature last week. Their pricing is $49/month for teams.These facts are stored in the agent’s long-term memory. Days or weeks later, when Jordan needs them:
What do we know about the partner API rate limits?“The API rate limit for the partner integration is 1000 requests per hour. Sarah confirmed this in the Tuesday sync. (Stored February 18.)”
For research workflows, Jordan combines memory with web research:
Search for recent articles about AI-powered product analytics tools and summarize the top 3.The agent searches, reads, and summarizes. Jordan reviews the summaries and stores the relevant findings:
Remember: Amplitude launched an AI insights feature in January 2026. Mixpanel is beta testing something similar. PostHog hasn't announced anything yet.Using flowmind, Jordan automated his weekly research routine:
Run my competitive-research flow.The flow searches for news about three competitor products, summarizes findings, compares them against stored knowledge about their previous positions, and presents a weekly competitive update. What used to be a two-hour Friday afternoon research session now produces a more thorough result in fifteen minutes.
Setup steps:
- Install the skills:
clawhub install triple-memory-skill
clawhub install flowmind-
Triple-memory-skill works immediately after installation — no API keys or external services required. It stores data locally with your agent.
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Configure your preferred web research skill with any required API keys.
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Build flowmind workflows gradually. Start with simple two-step flows and add complexity as you learn what works.
Results: Jordan described the impact as “having a second brain that actually works.” Before triple-memory-skill, he estimated that 30-40% of information from meetings was effectively lost within a week. Key decisions, specific numbers, names of contacts — they’d come up in a future conversation and he’d have to dig through notes or ask someone to repeat themselves. With persistent agent memory, the retrieval rate jumped to near 100% for anything he explicitly stored. The competitive research flow saves roughly 90 minutes per week and produces more consistent results than manual searching.
Building Your Own Workflow Combinations
These five workflows aren’t the only combinations that work. They’re starting points.
The pattern is always the same: identify the apps you switch between most frequently, install the corresponding OpenClaw skills, and start using them together through your agent.
A few principles we learned from testing:
Start with two skills, not five. Install ClickUp and cal-com. Get comfortable using them together. Then add email. Then add time tracking. Each skill you add creates new combination possibilities, but it also adds complexity. Build incrementally.
Let the workflow emerge from use. Don’t plan the perfect workflow on paper. Use the skills individually for a week, notice which tasks you keep repeating, and then ask your agent to combine them. The best workflows are the ones that evolved from actual habits.
Use flowmind to lock in what works. Once you’ve found a combination that saves time, save it as a flowmind workflow. That way you trigger it with one command instead of typing the full instructions each time.
For the full list of productivity skills worth considering, read our best OpenClaw productivity skills roundup. Browse the productivity category on Oh My OpenClaw for every option. And if you’re starting from scratch, the install guide will get you from zero to a working agent.
FAQ
Can I combine skills from different categories, not just productivity?
Yes. OpenClaw skills are modular and category-agnostic from the agent’s perspective. You can combine a productivity skill like ClickUp with a media skill like the Figma integration, or a smart home skill with a calendar tool. The agent picks the right skill based on what you ask. Categories are organizational labels on Oh My OpenClaw, not technical boundaries.
Do these workflows require a specific OpenClaw agent, or do they work with any?
The workflows described here work with any OpenClaw-compatible agent, including Moltbot and Clawdbot. The skills are agent-agnostic — they’re modules that any agent can call. Your choice of agent affects the messaging platform and some configuration details, but the skill combinations work the same way.
How many skills can I install at once without performance issues?
There’s no hard limit, and installing many skills doesn’t slow your agent down in a meaningful way. Skills are loaded on demand, not all running simultaneously. Users with 15-20 skills installed report no noticeable performance impact. The practical constraint is managing API tokens and configurations for external services, not agent performance.
What happens if one skill in a multi-skill workflow fails?
The agent handles each skill call independently. If the calendar skill returns an error (say, an expired API token), the other parts of the workflow still complete. You’ll get results from the working skills and an error message for the one that failed. Fix the broken skill and re-run just that part.
Can I schedule these workflows to run automatically at specific times?
With flowmind, you can define workflows and trigger them manually with a single command. Fully automated scheduling — running a workflow at 8am every Monday without any input — depends on your agent’s configuration and hosting setup. Some users set up cron jobs that send a message to their agent at scheduled times, which triggers the workflow. It works, though it’s a workaround rather than a built-in feature.
What to Try Next
Pick the workflow closest to your current pain point and start there. If you spend too much time switching between project management and calendar, start with Workflow 1. If standup action items keep falling through the cracks, try Workflow 2.
The common thread across all five workflows is the same: information that used to live in separate apps now flows through a single conversation. You stop being the integration layer between your tools. Your agent handles that, and you handle the decisions.
Browse the full productivity category on Oh My OpenClaw for every skill option. Read the best productivity skills article for individual skill reviews. And start with clawhub install and the skill that matches your biggest daily friction point.
The thirty minutes you spend every morning opening tabs and switching between apps isn’t productive time. It’s glue work. Let the agent be the glue.