Every company wants its employees to spend less time on boring, repetitive tasks and more time on important projects. But the truth is, people waste hours each week doing things like manually updating stuff, waiting for approvals, or moving info between different programs. These things might seem small, but they add up and make teams way less productive. Modern project management tools fix this by adding automation to everyday tasks. Instead of wasting energy on the same old stuff, teams get time back to be creative, come up with new ideas, and work on plans for the future.
Automation is great because it saves time and cuts down on mistakes that happen when things are done by hand. When tasks aren’t done the same way each time or depend on someone remembering small steps, mistakes happen a lot. By automating these tasks, you make the system more reliable. Work gets done the same way every time, so there’s less chance of messing up. This mix of speed and consistency lets companies do what they really want: let employees concentrate on important decisions and growing the business.
Lark Base: creating structured systems that save time
Manual data tracking is one of the most common sources of wasted effort. Lark Base eliminates this problem by giving teams structured, automated systems to manage projects, responsibilities, and customer commitments. Instead of updating spreadsheets or chasing colleagues for information, Base ensures that data is always current. Customizable dashboards give leaders visibility into project milestones, while automations update records in real time, reducing human error. By housing customer pipelines alongside internal projects, Base also supports CRM app scenarios—providing visibility that keeps every commitment, from client needs to internal goals, moving in sync.
Lark Docs: turning documents into living workflows
Traditional documents often act as static repositories of information, requiring manual updates and duplication of effort. Lark Docs changes this by making documents dynamic, actionable, and connected to execution. Teams can co-edit strategies, proposals, or reports in real time, eliminating delays caused by emailing files back and forth. Embedded Sheets ensure data is always live, while comments and version history reduce confusion about changes. Most importantly, Docs link directly to tasks or approvals, so updates flow automatically into the systems that drive work. This prevents repetitive handovers and ensures documents act as accelerators for execution, not barriers.
Lark Sheets: automating data management
Data management consumes enormous amounts of employee time, particularly when updates are done manually. Lark Sheets reduces this burden by providing automation features that keep information accurate without requiring constant oversight. Conditional formatting highlights anomalies before they become problems, while built-in formulas reduce the risk of human error in calculations. Teams can also pull live data into Sheets from other Lark tools, ensuring that numbers stay current without manual imports. By automating routine data handling, Sheets allows employees to focus on interpreting results and making better decisions, rather than chasing numbers.
Lark Messenger: reducing time spent on repetitive updates
Everyday communication, things like sending reminders, asking for updates, or pointing out urgent stuff, usually takes up more of people’s time than they think. Lark Messenger can help lighten the load by adding automation to how people work together each day. Notifications can show deadlines or things waiting for approval, and pinned updates will make sure important info is easy to see. You don’t have to keep reminding people. Also, you can turn chats into tasks or events, which means follow-ups happen on your own, without any extra work from you. Messenger makes sure communication helps get things done instead of just being a pain that you have to deal with over and over.
Lark Minutes: removing the need for duplicate meeting effort
Meetings are notorious for generating repetitive work when notes, summaries, and action items are handled manually. Lark Minutes addresses this by capturing discussions automatically, transcribing conversations. Action items flow directly into Lark Tasks or Lark Base, ensuring follow-through without additional meetings or manual effort. Employees who miss sessions can review summaries or clips instead of rewatching entire recordings, saving valuable hours. By removing the need to repeat or reconstruct discussions, Minutes ensures meetings are efficient and outcomes move seamlessly into execution.
Lark Approval: streamlining sign-offs with automation
Slow or inconsistent approvals are one of the biggest barriers to freeing up time for strategic work. Lark Approval solves this by automating the flow of requests, making sign-offs faster, more reliable, and more transparent. Employees submit requests with structured forms that capture all necessary details up front, reducing back-and-forth clarifications. Automated routing ensures requests reach the right decision-makers instantly, while Messenger notifications keep them responsive. Every approval is logged in an automated workflow, creating accountability and eliminating bottlenecks. Instead of approvals acting as slowdowns, they become efficient checkpoints that keep projects moving without unnecessary delays.
Conclusion: automation as a pathway to strategy
Even though some boring tasks will always be around, they shouldn’t take over our work lives. If companies put automation into regular tasks, they can do less of the same stuff over and over, mess things up less, and let workers spend more time on what really matters. Lark has the tools to make this happen. Base keeps customers and projects info together nicely. With Docs, documents help get things done. Sheets helps keep data right, Messenger shares updates smoothly, Minutes writes down what happens in meetings on its own, and Approval speeds up decisions.
With all these things working together, the usual tasks happen behind the scenes. This lets people be creative, think of fresh ideas, and be successful in the long run. The way we work is not only getting faster, but smarter, and automation helps this happen.