The Planning Board That Fills Itself — Because Your Support, Frontdesk & Marketing All Live in the Same Office
Notion, Linear, and Trello all ship you an empty board. Maniana's Planning is fed by the rest of your office: Support calls become cards, Frontdesk forwards become tasks, app releases hit the calendar — automatically. Board, list, and calendar over one shared graph.
Every planning tool has the same origin story. Someone opens Notion / Linear / Trello / Jira, stares at an empty board, spends forty-five minutes configuring statuses and labels, types in the six tasks they can remember off the top of their head, then closes the tab. Two weeks later the board is stale because the real work happened in Slack, in email, on a customer call.
We just shipped Planning inside Maniana's Virtual Office — with one fundamentally different property. It doesn't start empty. It's wired to the rest of your office, so tasks land on it automatically. Support triages a call → the follow-up is a card. Frontdesk forwards a partnership email → the reply is a task. You ship an app → the QA checklist is on the calendar. You don't log the work. The office logs it for you.
Three views over one truth
- Board — drag cards between lanes as work moves. Rename lanes, delete lanes, no ceremony. This is what most teams open first thing in the morning.
- List — every task in one dense screen. Filter, sort, edit inline. Perfect for triage sessions when you need to see forty things at once instead of clicking forty cards.
- Calendar — every task lives on a real date. Week, month, or quarter view. Deadlines that slip are visible instead of hiding in a separate roadmap tool.
The part that actually matters: tasks come to you
Every planning tool on the market starts empty and stays empty until a human logs work into it. That's the failure mode — the work happens in Slack, in email, on calls, in customer conversations, and the board never catches up.
Planning inside Maniana is fed by the rest of your office. When Support triages a call, the follow-up shows up as a card. When Frontdesk forwards a partnership email, the reply becomes a task. When you ship an app, the QA checklist appears on the calendar. You're not the one logging the work — the office is doing it, and you're just executing.
Why every other board can't do this
Notion, Linear, Jira, Trello, ClickUp — they're all world-class at what they do. The problem isn't the container. The problem is that they're only the container. They don't know anything about what's happening outside the board.
To make any of them "self-filling," you'd need to wire up: an email integration that reads Gmail and creates tasks; a support integration that reads Vapi/Intercom transcripts and creates tasks; a deployment integration that reads GitHub/Vercel and creates tasks; a CRM integration that reads HubSpot and creates tasks. That's five paid Zapier zaps, three broken webhooks, and a Sunday you'll never get back.
Maniana's Planning has zero integrations to configure — because the email, the support, the CRM, and the apps already live in the same platform. It's not "integrated with" the rest of your stack. It is the rest of your stack.
Who this is for
You built a SaaS — in Maniana, or in Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit. You already have three or four tools open trying to run the thing (an inbox, a support widget, a Notion for "planning"). Every extra tool means one more place work falls through. This is the option where the office is one place — and Planning is the surface where you actually see everything that's happening.
Try it now
Sign up, open Planning, add your first three tasks. Or don't — turn on Frontdesk and Support and let them add the tasks for you. Free to start.