Delegate browser tasks like flight booking to Manus
TLDR: Overall I rate Manus 6/10 mostly because the website builder is really good. Task: TLDR: Overall I rate Manus 6/10 mostly because the website builder is really good. But if my agent was a person, they'd be fired and sent back to summer school! I'm not a programmer. I wanted to use manus for getting stuff done, rather than generating sloppy copy from the declining ChatGpt. Booking flights and adding them to my calendar sounded like an awesome use case.... until... Imagine taking 1.5 hours to supervise your AI agent in doing 15 minutes worth of menial labor (in this case, booking a flight, a train, and putting the relevant into a calendar. In the end Manus took so long I just did it myself. So let's call it a net negative for now. Maybe I'm the problem and I need to learn how to understand this delicate tech. But for now it's underwhelming. I like using the voice to text, which is not as good as chatgpt but much better than Claude. However, on mobile and desktop, I'll give a long voice prompt, and the last couple seconds are completely missing. I want the AI to work for me, but right now I'm working for the AI. Rocky start. I will say that the website builder is impressive. What it did a good enough job of on first try for website copy, took chatgpt 5+ hours to tie into a gordian knot of word salad slop. And since I can host websites, Manus just became my new website hosting solution. Sad that you can't really export your website to be usable on a third party host. Sad that the google calendar and gmail integrations seem to have severe reliablity issues. Not sure if this is Google thwarting the competition or what, but so far google doesn't play well with ChatGpt or Manus, despite offering connectors. My overall rating: 6/10. May go up as I discover more of Manus's strengths. But I can't unsee the epic time drain when it came to making calendar entries with gmail info. I expect an agentic tool to outperform a chat tool. Epilogue: Manus and Chatgpt Agent where somehow unable to take travel booking information form my gmail and use it to make a google calendar event. And guess what? Claude chat did it first try in under a minute! ----- Update from the morning after: Manus computer stayed on all night and burned through all of my remaining credits. How was this time spent? Waiting for me to take over and do a task Manus was already empowered to do (accessing a login code from my email). Now my credits are down to 0. I can't shake the impression that when I was in free trial mode, Manus was going all out trying to woo me. And it worked! But now that I'm paid, it's my results have been as underwhelming as ChatGPT. So now I'm going to view Manus as no more than a website builder that permanently locks you into their hosting plan. This whole lock in for the websites smells gross and I will leave the paid plan as soon as I find a better website builder, or the have the courtesy to let me export the website I built with tools that I paid to use.; tools: Manus, ChatGPT Agent, Claude. Human role: The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.; limitations: Prerequisites include a paid Manus subscription and Google account access. Significant constraints include unreliable Google Calendar/Gmail connectors, inability to export hosted websites to third-party platforms, and voice-to-text truncation on long prompts. Operating costs are high due to credit consumption during idle or failed agent loops. Human approval is required for login credentials and final booking confirmations..
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TLDR: Overall I rate Manus 6/10 mostly because the website builder is really good.
Workflow
TLDR: Overall I rate Manus 6/10 mostly because the website builder is really good. But if my agent was a person, they'd be fired and sent back to summer school! I'm not a programmer. I wanted to use manus for getting stuff done, rather than generating sloppy copy from the declining ChatGpt. Booking flights and adding them to my calendar sounded like an awesome use case.... until... Imagine taking 1.5 hours to supervise your AI agent in doing 15 minutes worth of menial labor (in this case, booking a flight, a train, and putting the relevant into a calendar. In the end Manus took so long I just did it myself. So let's call it a net negative for now. Maybe I'm the problem and I need to learn how to understand this delicate tech. But for now it's underwhelming. I like using the voice to text, which is not as good as chatgpt but much better than Claude. However, on mobile and desktop, I'll give a long voice prompt, and the last couple seconds are completely missing. I want the AI to work for me, but right now I'm working for the AI. Rocky start. I will say that the website builder is impressive. What it did a good enough job of on first try for website copy, took chatgpt 5+ hours to tie into a gordian knot of word salad slop. And since I can host websites, Manus just became my new website hosting solution. Sad that you can't really export your website to be usable on a third party host. Sad that the google calendar and gmail integrations seem to have severe reliablity issues. Not sure if this is Google thwarting the competition or what, but so far google doesn't play well with ChatGpt or Manus, despite offering connectors. My overall rating: 6/10. May go up as I discover more of Manus's strengths. But I can't unsee the epic time drain when it came to making calendar entries with gmail info. I expect an agentic tool to outperform a chat tool. Epilogue: Manus and Chatgpt Agent where somehow unable to take travel booking information form my gmail and use it to make a google calendar event. And guess what? Claude chat did it first try in under a minute! ----- Update from the morning after: Manus computer stayed on all night and burned through all of my remaining credits. How was this time spent? Waiting for me to take over and do a task Manus was already empowered to do (accessing a login code from my email). Now my credits are down to 0. I can't shake the impression that when I was in free trial mode, Manus was going all out trying to woo me. And it worked! But now that I'm paid, it's my results have been as underwhelming as ChatGPT. So now I'm going to view Manus as no more than a website builder that permanently locks you into their hosting plan. This whole lock in for the websites smells gross and I will leave the paid plan as soon as I find a better website builder, or the have the courtesy to let me export the website I built with tools that I paid to use.
Reported result
The user reported a net negative outcome for travel booking automation, citing excessive supervision time and eventual manual completion. Manus successfully generated website copy and hosted the site, outperforming ChatGPT in this specific task. However, Google Calendar and Gmail integrations failed to create events from email data, and the agent consumed all credits overnight while waiting for manual login code input.
Human role
The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.
Limitations
Prerequisites include a paid Manus subscription and Google account access. Significant constraints include unreliable Google Calendar/Gmail connectors, inability to export hosted websites to third-party platforms, and voice-to-text truncation on long prompts. Operating costs are high due to credit consumption during idle or failed agent loops. Human approval is required for login credentials and final booking confirmations.
Try it
I want to test Manus for website creation and travel booking automation. First, use Manus to generate a simple landing page for [replaceable business context] and host it on Manus. Second, provide a sample email from [replaceable source file/URL] containing flight details. Instruct Manus to extract these details and create a Google Calendar event. Monitor the process closely. If Manus stalls or fails to access the email/calendar within 15 minutes, stop the agent and manually complete the task. Do not let the agent run unattended overnight to avoid credit drain. Verify the website copy quality against ChatGPT output. Confirm the calendar event exists before considering the task done. If integration fails, document the error and switch to manual entry. Ask me for clarification if the email format is ambiguous.
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