macro-tasks is a free, open source miscellaneous project written in Rust and released under AGPL-3.0. It has 4,345 GitHub stars, 416 forks and 100 open issues, and was last pushed 3 hours ago. On this registry it ranks #15 of 25 tracked projects in Miscellaneous, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available. It gained 46 stars over the last 6 tracked days.

What is macro-tasks?

What it is

Macro is an open-source unified workspace named macro-tasks, built in Rust and SolidJS under AGPL-3.0. It brings email, messages, docs, tasks, canvas, agents, calls, files, pull requests, and CRM into one web interface. The project lives in the Rust and SolidJS web ecosystem, with GitHub topics such as agent, ai, mcp, messaging, notes, notion, crm, email, and linear.

The concrete problem is fragmented team software. The README says the team used Slack, Linear, Notion, HubSpot, and Superhuman, but those tools did not work together as one system as the company scaled. Macro is intended as a single operating system for work, where items are linked and searchable so people and agents do not switch between separate products.

Key capabilities

  • The email block provides a multi-account unified inbox, keyboard shortcuts, shared inboxes, Gmail support, Google account triage, and a built-in window manager for multiple splits.
  • The messages and tasks blocks support channels and direct messages, plus Linear-inspired tasks linked to channels, email, and agents.
  • The docs and canvas blocks provide real-time collaborative markdown editing on CRDTs and a two-dimensional board with links to tasks, files, and emails.
  • The agents, calls, and file storage blocks use shared team memory, let agents take action, record and transcribe calls, and auto-import searchable attachments.
  • The CRM, pull request, and AI blocks manage customers, contacts, custom properties, email sync, enrichment, linked pull requests, MCP tools, parsed PDF search, and email drafting or sending.

Who uses it and how

  • A small startup can use Macro as one workspace instead of Slack, Linear, Notion, HubSpot, and Superhuman when those tools are fragmented across teams.
  • A technical team can discuss work in channels, link pull requests to tasks, and let agents retrieve context from email, files, and docs.
  • A team can use the CRM for contacts, custom properties, email sync, and enrichment while keeping related email and tasks together.
  • An individual can triage Google accounts, use keyboard shortcuts, and draft or send email from AI chats.

Getting started

The README excerpt points to a hosted sign-up path, documentation, demo booking, and contribution links, but it does not list Docker images or package-manager install commands.

When to use it — and when not to

Macro is useful when a team wants one Rust and SolidJS workspace for email, messages, docs, tasks, agents, calls, files, pull requests, and CRM instead of running Slack, Linear, Notion, HubSpot, and Superhuman separately. It is less suitable when a team needs a documented self-hosted deployment path, because the README excerpt only lists sign-up, docs, demo booking, and contribution links. The zero contributor count and zero-year repository age mean public maintenance history is still early.

project readme (upstream, from github) — read inline
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Sign up · Docs · Book demo · Website · Feature requests · Contribute · Hiring


Macro is the all-in-one workspace for you and your team. It unifies email + messages + docs + tasks + agents + CRM into a single fast interface with shared team-level memory. Everything in your workspace is @linked and searchable so your team (and your agents) never have to switch tools.


Why Macro

We built Macro because we wanted a single operating system for our startup. There are many good software products, and we used them all — Slack, Linear, Notion, HubSpot, and Superhuman — but they don't work together as one system. As we scaled our last venture to ~20 people things started to break: every team got their own tools and the company was held together by MCP and Zapier. The company was not computable. It was chaotic.

Macro is a complete redesign of work software from the ground up as a single system.

Designed by us in NYC and Toronto, dogfooded by our team of ~15 for two years. Built in SolidJS and Rust for speed and reliability. We're focused on building something that any small company or team at a larger company can use as their "operating system".


Features

Macro is composed of 'blocks' designed to be modular, extensible, and work together like Lego. For each block, we studied the best prior art and tried to make it even better.

Each surface is purpose-built for its job rather than composed from a generic block primitive — but every one of them shares the same backend; cross-references between a doc and a task, or a channel message and an email, are natively stored as a bidirectional graph.

Block Docs What it does
Email Docs → Multi-account unified inbox, keyboard shortcuts, and shared inboxes. Gmail.
Messages Docs → Channels and direct messages designed for focused technical discussions.
Tasks Docs → Linear-inspired tasks, tightly integrated with channels, email, and agents.
Docs Docs → Real-time collaborative, markdown-native docs built on CRDTs, with @mentions.
Canvas Docs → 2D board with embedded @links to tasks, files, and emails.
Agents Docs → Unified, team-level memory. Can take action on your behalf.
Calls Docs → Recorded, transcribed, and logged to team memory for agents.
File storage Docs → Auto-imported from email and channels, fully searchable.
Pull requests Docs → Linked to tasks, embeddable in channels, available to agents.
CRM Docs → Customer and contact objects, custom properties, email sync, enrichment.

Multiple email inboxes w/ good AI tools, integrated CRM

Macro Mail is inspired by Superhuman's keyboard-first interface with a few key additions:

  1. Multi-account. Triage all your Google accounts in a single inbox, with the same tagging and sharing system. Or triage individually.
  2. Unified inbox: emails, messages, @mentions, and tasks to complete, all in the same list. Use j k and e to navigate everything.
  3. Better AI, with a tools/MCP surface designed to work across inboxes and to help your agents more accurately retrieve information. For example, we expose a unified search tool that allows agents to search all file attachment PDFs (parsed out of email) directly, rather than pulling email threads then attachments. You can also draft, edit and send emails right from AI chats, without opening your email.

Macro email thread with actions, tags, and properties in the sidebar

  1. Multitasking ability — Macro has a built-in window manager that lets you create 3+ splits (scales with monitor size) so you can draft emails while reviewing prior threads.
  2. Company/Contact objects. Macro has native CRM capability so you can cmd+k to a contact, like [email protected] to see all emails between you and that person, or companies, to see all emails and files between everyone on your team and everyone at that company, e.g. @acme.com. All of this right from your email without having to open a heavyweight CRM like HubSpot or Salesforce. Email aggregation by contact or company is also available to your agents so they can better assist with CRM-type queries and actions.

Macro Mail lives in the same interface as channels, docs, tasks, and code. From any email, hit "task" to create a linked task, e.g. a ticket for an engineer from a customer support email. @mention emails in documents, e.g. @Re: Contract Signature.eml inside of Todos.md. In Macro, your email is brought into the fold with all of your tools, and your team, in the same permissions system: just hit Share to share an email to any DM or channel — no need to screenshot.

Email docs →


Team chat for focused technical discussions

Macro Chat is designed to be more focused than Slack. The first couple of replies show inline and the rest collapse into a thread, so a busy channel stays readable. Threads are permissioned severally so you can share threads across channels by copying links. Everything is stored in a bidirectional graph, so tasks @link to messages that created them, customer support emails tie into support channels, CRM records get updated when they're discussed in messages, etc. The core idea is that (i) messaging should be the centerpiece around which tasks, mail, docs, and content management are built, all in a lightweight way, and agents should be first-class citizens like human users and (ii) messaging needs to be more focused and readable for technical conversations, and not turn into battles where context is lost and progress is indistinguishable from noise.

Macro #Engineers channel with threads, mentions, and an inline GitHub check

Messages docs →


Task management built around chat

Linear recently published a report that issue tracking is dead. We agree with that, but the stronger form is that issue tracking never really worked, at least for us. We really tried and we blamed ourselves, but as we talked to other companies, it turns out that nobody was using their issue tracker "correctly". And if that's the case, the problem is the design of the tool, not the companies that use it.

The core problem with traditional issue trackers or project management tools is that they get out of date. The reason they get out of date is that (i) they're a separate system from where the conversation really happens in team chat (e.g. Slack, Macro, Discord, etc.) and (ii) they don't add much benefit beyond tracking the work. They're a chore with near-term costs and only the promise of long-term benefit. They're too rigid compared to a 2D canvas, too opinionated, and don't match how your project actually functions.

The solution isn't to forgo tracking entirely. We tried that and it was a different form of chaos. The solution we've found is lightweight issues tightly coupled to your channels and DMs, so that issue tracking naturally occurs where the conversation itself happens.

Macro tasks list grouped by assignee, with a task detail showing its source message and linked PR

Creating tasks in Macro is easy. Where possible, tasks created are bidirectionally linked to the creating context (e.g. a customer email) so the full chain is auditable from "wh

readme truncated — read the full docs on github

Frequently asked questions

Is macro-tasks free to use?

macro-tasks is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does macro-tasks do?

Macro is a unified workspace for teams: email, chat, docs, tasks, agents, calls, and CRM — @-linked together with shared AI memory.

What is macro-tasks written in?

macro-tasks is primarily written in Rust. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/macro-inc/macro, and it has 4,345 GitHub stars.