ClickUp: Tasks, Screenshots, Email, Time
ClickUp is a productivity platform that makes your personal and work lives more productive, saving you time.
ClickUp's revolutionary Chrome Extension replaces five separate apps, virtually allowing you to do anything!
1. Create Tasks & Save Websites as Tasks
2. Time Tracking: Easily attach time to ClickUp tasks
3. Screenshots: Capture, mark up, and edit screenshots
4. Email: Create tasks and attach emails to tasks
5. Notepad
ClickUp is free forever for up to 100MB of files storage.
Installing the Chrome Extension
1. Click ADD TO CHROME
2. Click Add extension in the next popup
3. Click the ClickUp extension icon at the top of your browser window.
4. Log in to your ClickUp Account
5. Select the Workspace(s) that should have access
Create Tasks & Saves Websites as Tasks
Creating a new task
1. Select the "New Task" tab
2. Write a title for your task
3. Add assignees and a due date
4. Write a description for your task. (Pro tip: Use Markdown Shortcuts in your description fast rich text editing)
5. Click Create New Task
Bookmark a site as a task
1. Click on the Bookmark tab
2. This automatically sets the page title & URL as the task title
3. You can also add a description here
4. Then you'll also be given the option to attach a screenshot of the website to the task by clicking Include screenshot
Set a Default List
Save a default destination for tasks making this the fastest way to add new tasks!
Time Tracking: Easily attach time to ClickUp tasks
Simply locate a task in the extension and select it to begin tracking time.
From the Time Spent window, you are able to view time logged on recent tasks and even remove time that was accidentally logged.
Back in the ClickUp task, the time has been logged, and we can even start the extension's timer from within the task.
Screenshots: capture, mark up, and edit screenshots
Capture
Capture your entire browser tab or select a certain area to add to a task or download to your computer
Attach
Attach the file to an existing task or create a new one
Mark Up
The extension grants you extremely detailed mark up functionality:
Paintbrush
- draw what you want on top of the screenshot
- set a color and brush size
Arrow, line, circle, square
- quickly add shapes to highlight areas of the screenshot
- set a color and brush size
Text
- add notes right onto a screenshot
- set a color, size, and substrate (background)
Blur
- select an area of the screen you would like to remain hidden.
Numbers
- drop increasing numbered markers on your screenshot
- dragging and dropping allows you to create a box with the number
- perfect for sharing steps with a team member
Pointer
- select things you've already added to the screenshot and make adjustments
Undo / Redo
Attach to comments
1. Take a screenshot with the Chrome Extension
2. With the screenshot still in the extension, open a task in ClickUp
3. Open the comment editor
4. Click the "Chrome attachment" button
Email: Create tasks and attach emails to tasks
Capture an email
Click the Add to ClickUp button in your email to generate a full HTML record of the email.
Attach emails to tasks and create tasks from emails
ClickUp will attach the email to a task or create a brand new one with the email attachment included so you can quickly view, jump back, or download the email!
For more info, check out our doc on attaching emails to ClickUp!
Notepad
You can also access your ClickUp notes from any page. Open the extension to the Notepad tab, and all of your notes are available from ClickUp. Your notes will sync across all your devices. Use Markdown Shortcuts and Rich Text in any note.
When hovering over a note, you will be able to rename the note, archive, delete, and convert the note to a task.
While inside a note, at the bottom are the options to see earlier versions of the note, open the fullscreen editor, as well as the option to convert the note to a task.
Floating Button
The ClickUp button gives you quick access to the Notepad, Bookmarks, Screenshots, Time Tracking, and creating a task from any webpage.
To move the button, click and drag it to any spot on the page.
To hide the button, hover over the x icon. You can choose to hide the button for the current session, always for the current website you're on, or turn them off all together.
Latest reviews
This tool would be amazing if it actually worked. Basic features like syncing edits from the extension to ClickUp are unreliable at best. For example, I can open the same notepad item in both the extension and the ClickUp app, but edits made in the extension are not reflected in the note when opened in ClickUp. In fact, ClickUp eventually overwrites the edits with its last saved version. Which makes taking notes in the extension pointless if I want to access them later. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the extension, logged out and back in, cleared caches and cookies, and repeated tests several times. If ClickUp fixes this syncing issue I’d happily use the extension daily and update my rating to 5 stars.
As the rest of the lot is the same here, it stops working all the time... 8 months later still having troubles, it works for a while and then boom empty window or something like that again, luckily I'm not experiencing any performance issues
ClickUp tech support should notify user when features disappear or break.
The clickup extension suddenly stopped working last week , it just blanks when you click on the icon and cant use any feature ,Will it be back ?
This extension takes like half of my CPU capacity. I use i7-14700k CPU. I opened Google chrome just 1 tab and bam 50% capacity gone. CPU fan goes crazy noises I thought it's just a clocking issue or something but digging deeper I was able to isolate that when I just disable this extension my CPU would calm down. Not to mention it won't always show up in the email. This has been going on for like months now probably started April
Be warned that this extension can eat up CPU cycles like you would not believe. This extension was single-handedly bringing my 2020 iMac to a crawl. I expect something is screwy about how it's parsing/checking page content.
The extension is not working. It keeps disappearing from Gmail when it opens it is just a blank window. I know that company works on new one, but when will be it availble? Current one does not work
I thought "Track time" was broken in this extension because I couldn't see my tasks. Turns out you have to first turn on "time tracking" in your spaces settings before you can use time tracking feature. Clickup needs better documentation, and a "help" AI chatbot that can help users. There are too many nice features, but new users will struggle.
Loved using this extension but now as most have reported, blank pop-up and removed from all emails previously linked. I have tried everything but nothing works. Hopefully this gets sorted out soon.
keeps disappearing from my gmail, and not clear how to put it back!
Massive CPU/battery drain on my M3 Macbook Air...unfortunate. I guess it's not a priority for ClickUp management.
Current version of the extension causes my chrome to run at up to/over 140% CPU power. (Chrome is at 7-9% without the extension running). Is a useful extension if it worked properly (creating new tasks directly from emails was great in the past), but now my comp currently overheats and massively slows down when its on, reducing my productivity. Needs some proper investigation from their team and a new, performance tested version released.
I like the extension. I like the functionality. But I cannot use it because it causes my browser to eat tons of CPU power. When the extension is uninstalled, Brave runs at around 3-10%. When it is installed, it shoots up to over 144%. Similar results with Chrome. This extension is "free," at the hidden expense of reducing the life of your laptop due to overheating.
This extension would be very useful if it worked. It only works briefly after a new installation and then stops working after a few calls. It then has to be uninstalled and reinstalled. Also, the search within the extension only works partially. Please fix it, as it is necessary for the efficient use of ClickUp.
The only thing I was using this extension for was to put emails into clickup tasks. This functionality has been broken for the past two months, and there is no sign of a fix being made. Edit: Recently this extension has started using 100% of my cpu for no apparent reason. I am not sure if it is extreme incompetence in how it is set up, or if they added a crypto miner to the extension, but I have reported the extension as malicious to be reviewed.
I am really upset, I have been used to with the extension but it's now not working that's really interrupt daily jobs.
Completely stopped working - just get a white screen. Tried reinstalling etc. Completely sabotaging the habit / process i had implemented for myself.
The extension is great when it works, but it is constantly crashing and needing reinstallation. Now it doesn't even work at all and just gives blank white pop ups when trying to install and login.
Intermittently working, and then now I can't access the extension within my email completely!
Love Clickup but suddenly lost the ability to see the clickup button at the corner, and seeing them in my emails. That's something I really need! Any help for this?
I love ClickUp, it has been a game-changer for work. They have made changes and upgrades to the extension that allows for seamless integration between the app, Gmail and Google Chrome. Awesome app and I would recommend it for anyone
Stopped working in Edge with their latest update. 😒
Great extension WHEN it works which unfortunately is not often. Like someone said, CU is great when it works but their QA is no bueno and I'm forced to spend countless amounts of time submitting bugs. We are doing their testing work and paying for it. When it does work/the things that do work are great. I am 1000000% convinced they don't use their own product. There is now way they would tolerate the endless bugs, glitches, poor UI/UX design and features that are just plain unusable like their Whiteboard. CU has A LOT of potential but they really need to get their act together.
I've only been using the extension for a few days but can already tell it may be the single most useful productivity/organization tool I've found in a long time. The ability to attach emails to to-do list items, or to create new tasks without leaving email, is a game changer. I haven't had any issues with having to reinstall (it's only been a few days), but my feeling is that even if I have to reinstall often, this app will 100% be worth it.
Great when it works but in the space of 1 month I have had to remove and reinstall this extension 3 times so far and on the last and current attempt I can't get the extension to work properly at all when it comes to attaching emails (from Gmail) to an existing task and this is a function I use all the time. ClickUp is great but this extension is unreliable and frustrating. Update 31st March 2025 - I've just deleted and reinstalled this extension for the (I've stopped counting) gazillionth time.
It should be reinstalled at least once a month. It's frustrating.
Sigh. As everyone else notes: requires deleting and reinstalling every few weeks. Super annoying, but I do it because when it's working, I really like how easy it is to add a screenshot into a clickup comment. I also use email clipping feature.
Why is this extension, and by extension, ClickUp in general, only rated at 2.x stars? Makes me nervous about even trying the app.
It's frustrating (and ironic) that an app I pay for that promises efficiency wastes so much my time on a frequent and regular basis deleting and reinstalling the Chrome extension because it keeps failing. I've long given up reporting it.
This extension is a clear representation of clickup's product policy: lack of proper QA testing before launching updates which causes things to break all the time and it's the users who are forced to do the QA work by spotting and reporting the bugs. They get fixed after a long while and on the next update, things break again.
Time tracking is buggy - doesnt stop, cannot be extended with comment
Please update this extension! I'm tired of having to remove and reinstall. I want to love ClickUp but there are so many bugs lately it's frustrating.
Same as all of the previous reviews, it's very buggy! Cannot trust this extension.
Very bugy, always have to reinstall after a few weeks. Also date picker is bugy, and you cant set the priority while creating the task?
As many others have said over a long period, it's good when it works but every few weeks it breaks and needs to be reinstalled.
Awesome extension when it works. If you don't utilize enough or for no reason at all, the extension always stops working. You constantly have to re-install it for it to start working again. Once that's fixed, it really works wonders.
Constantly having to uninstall e install again..stops working out of nowhere
Given how buggy the time tracker in the click up web app is, I can only imagine how buggy this extension must be. The click up support isn't much of a help either. Really disappointed.
It's super glitchy and constantly having to uninstall and reinstall!
Everyone is saying the same thing here and yet the Clickup PMs aren't taking this up as a priority. Pros - everything at the same place. Cons - it is too buggy and the extension's dialog box freezes or becomes blank after a while, so I finally need to uninstall the extension and install it again.
Unhappy about always needing to reinstall. For it to work (maybe) for unpredictable amount of time. I love ClickUp, but, desperately unhappy about this supporting feature.
Same as so many others - it's amazing when it works but it always stops working and I have to uninstall and reinstall. I figured they'd fix it by now based on how many of the same reviews they continue to receive.
Brilliant Extension - when it works! Seems super glitchy and constantly having to uninstall and reinstall. It would be my favourite extension if it was stable :) Please please fix!
Great when it works, but it never works... I've had to uninstall and reinstall a LOT. After reinstalling today, I can't put anything past 31/12/24 for the due date but I've yet to perfect a time machine so that due date won't work for me.
IF YOU WANT TO RETAIN OUR BUSINESS AND OTHERS, AS SHOWN IN THE COMMENTS HERE, FIX THE EXTENSION. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Fix the bug where we have to constantly uninstall
PLEASE, PLEASE stop spending time developing AI add on tools and look at the basics. This is meant to be a productivity tool and as you can see from the comments, a lot of peoples time is wasted by having to regularly reinstall this extension. Great tool when it works, but a waste of time when it goes wrong (which it frequently does). Come on put the development effort where it is needed.
Functionality - 1 star: Just had to uninstall it again today. It stops working, logs you out, and the only way to get it working again is to uninstall and reinstall. Features - 4 stars: I love that you can send a google email to a task, or create a task right from Gmail. You can also create a task from any website and include a screenshot.
As others have stated, it stops working all the time. You have to delete it and add it again to get it to work. This is causing a loss in productivity. ;-(
Does not work most of the time. Come on ClickUp, where is all your funding going!
