Connect work tools

The workstream owner or an organization administrator configures where approved work goes. Open Settings, or complete the work-tool step during first setup. You can also choose Keep work in Chrona.

For Smartsheet, start with a discussion-topic tracking sheet prepared for your workstream. Column matching connects that sheet's fields to Chrona.

Set up a work destination

1. Choose Choose Linear or Choose Smartsheet.
2. Connect your own account and approve access in that tool. A teammate who sends changes connects their own account.
3. Choose where new approved work should land. For Linear, choose a team and a project, or explicitly choose No project. For Smartsheet, choose the prepared discussion-topic sheet.
4. For Smartsheet, match Chrona's fields with the sheet's columns and confirm the matches. Linear uses its own fields and needs no column matching.
5. Complete Writing using Turn on writing when offered. Check the saved setup state before leaving.

An active connection alone does not enable external saves. The workstream's writing setup must be ready, and the person making the change needs working access to the destination. The decision or send control names the operation being attempted.

When changing work tools, the current destination stays active until the replacement is ready. Cancel change cancels the pending replacement. If cancellation or setup has an uncertain outcome, reload to check the saved state.

What each connection supports

Connection	Current use	Limits
Linear	Read work from a team; create topics and actions as issues; rename topic issues; write supported owner or assignee, due-date, and status changes.	Next-update dates, meeting notes and hand-added updates stay in Chrona. Creation is one record at a time, not a topic and all its actions in one operation.
Smartsheet	Read work from a sheet; create topics as rows; rename topic rows; save mapped owner, due-date, next-update, and status changes, plus approved meeting notes and hand-added topic updates.	Actions stay in Chrona because they have no corresponding sheet row. Owner, date, status and note writes need usable column matches. Topic names use the primary column automatically.
Granola	Read selected meeting notes to create recaps.	Read-only meeting source. No writeback or automatic processing of every meeting. Add a meeting.

Linear details

An action sent to Linear can become a sub-issue when its topic already has an issue there. Otherwise it becomes a standalone issue in the chosen destination. Keeping an extracted action in Chrona does not itself send it to Linear.

Assignment uses the selected person's email to find their Linear account. If that cannot identify one account, Chrona leaves the external assignee unchanged and tells you to check the issue. Chrona does not write a blocked status to Linear.

Projects in Paused, Completed, or Canceled are left out of meeting comparison. Work already read from those projects appears in a separate group in Work. Resume the project in Linear to include it again on the next read. Backlog, Planned, and In Progress projects remain eligible.

Start with a Smartsheet topic-tracking sheet

Use a sheet organized around discussion topics, with one topic per row. A template provides a starting structure that can be adapted to your workstream. If you need a starting template, ask Chrona.

The sheet's primary column holds topic names. Match the columns you use for topic owners, status, due dates, next-update dates, meeting notes, and meeting dates. Column names can differ between sheets, so confirm the actual matches rather than assuming a template name is enough.

Support depends on the topic-row structure and confirmed column matches.

Match the sheet's actual columns, including its status values. Lane is an optional read mapping for how your sheet groups work. Leaving it empty does not prevent writing.

Smartsheet dates written as EOD, EOM, EOQ, end of month, or end of quarter are offered as dates for you to review. Chrona does not adopt those dates automatically.

Leaving Meeting note unmapped means approved notes cannot be written to the sheet. Setup can still be completed. If columns change later, review the matches before resuming writes.

Availability

These guides cover the current supported connections. Jira, monday.com, Azure DevOps, and Microsoft Planner are not available work destinations. Contact Chrona to discuss a work tool or meeting source your team needs.

Teams self-service, Zoom, and Google Meet connections are coming. See meeting-source options for supported transcript use and help arranging Teams capture.