Connect your tools
Pull context from the tools you already use — email, calendar, docs, meetings, tasks, and notes.
Gmail
Google Calendar
Google Drive
Granola
Box
Superhuman
Calendly
Slack
Asana
Todoist
Dropbox
Outlook
monday.com
Cal.com
Fireflies
Ready-made skills
Import the two core workflows and start faster.
Daily Assistant
Briefings · Email triage · To-dos
Morning briefs, evening recaps, email triage, and persistent task tracking.
Personal CRM
Contacts · Follow-ups · Relationship scoring
Contact profiles, interaction logs, relationship scores, and weekly follow-up recommendations.
Recap every meeting
Manus turns meeting context into a clean recap with decisions, action items, and follow-up drafts.
Your operations stack
The core Manus capabilities behind your personal Chief of Staff.
Connectors
Connect Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Drive, Notion, and Granola so Manus can read the context around your work and write results back where you already operate.
Skills
Turn your preferences into reusable instructions: tone of voice, follow-up cadence, briefing format, prioritization rules, and escalation criteria.
Browser Operator
Let Manus gather external context, check pages, and compile research in the background when a briefing or follow-up needs more than your connected apps.
Wide Research
Research people, companies, accounts, and open questions in parallel so meeting prep includes the facts and relationship context that matter.
Spreadsheet
Maintain contact lists, weekly CRM reports, open action trackers, and follow-up queues in structured spreadsheets without manual updating.
Slides
Convert meeting notes, strategy updates, and stakeholder briefs into polished presentation-ready materials for internal or external audiences.
Design
Create simple executive-ready assets such as recap one-pagers, relationship maps, and status summaries without waiting on design support.
Data visualization
Transform tasks, relationships, meetings, and operating rhythms into dashboards that show what is moving, blocked, or going cold.
Web
Build shareable internal dashboards, briefing hubs, and lightweight portals for recurring operating workflows without developer tickets.
Video
Turn scripts, updates, or meeting summaries into short narrated videos when asynchronous communication needs more clarity than text.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about building a personal chief of staff with Manus.
What does a personal chief of staff do in Manus?
It handles recurring operational work such as meeting prep, follow-up drafting, daily briefings, email triage, to-do maintenance, and relationship tracking. You define the rules once, then Manus runs the workflow on demand or on a schedule.
How long does setup take?
You can usually get the basics running in minutes: connect your tools, add or create the skills that encode your preferences, and schedule the recurring prompts you want Manus to run.
Which tools should I connect first?
Start with Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Google Drive, Notion, and Granola. Together, they give Manus the context it needs across email, schedule, documents, team updates, workspace notes, and meeting transcripts.
Can Manus prepare me for meetings automatically?
Yes. You can schedule Manus to run before meetings and generate a one-page brief from past notes, relevant email threads, open items, documents, and relationship context.
Can it draft follow-up emails in my voice?
Yes. Use Skills to define your tone of voice, structure, and follow-up cadence. Manus can then draft follow-ups after meetings or recommend outreach when relationships have gone quiet.
How does the Daily Assistant skill work?
The Daily Assistant skill runs morning and evening routines. It checks calendar events, triages email, updates a persistent to-do list, and sends concise summaries through Slack and email.
How does the Personal CRM skill work?
The Personal CRM skill scans Gmail and Calendar, updates contact profiles, logs interactions, calculates relationship scores, and produces weekly follow-up recommendations with draft outreach emails.
Can I change the schedule?
Yes. Scheduled Tasks can run daily, weekly, before meetings, after meetings, or at any cadence you choose. You can edit the prompt, time, and delivery destination as your workflow evolves.
Do I need to write code or manage API keys?
No. Manus works through app connectors. Connect the tools you use, describe the workflow, and Manus handles it with your existing context and saved preferences — while keeping you in control. You can review, approve, or adjust anything before it’s sent or changed.