Section 10: Project management and autonomous agent workflows with Manus

Scenario 99: Lessons learned report and knowledge base

Level: Intermediate · Tools: Manus Projects, Notion connector, knowledge base, Notion page and database [167] [188] [180]

Who and in what situation

Elif coordinates the administrative transformation of a private hospital group. When the project closes, she turns the decisions, actions, risks and final report into a lessons learned page.

How it is done today

Elif opens the notes and reports in the folders, consolidates recurring issues and copies the results to the wiki.

How to do it with AI

  1. Create a workspace with Create Project; add the charter, risk register, closure report and decision notes as Files & sources. [167] [177]
  2. Grant access to the relevant wiki or database through Connectors > Notion > Connect. Notion can read and create pages and databases, update fields and write comments. [188]
  3. Ask it to compare the documents and complete the event, cause, impact, effective practice, proposed change, owner and source fields for each lesson.
  4. Generate the draft report first; after approval, create a new page in Notion and add a link to the relevant database entry. [188]
  5. Redact personal data and select the files to include in the new Project.

Example prompt

Compare the charter, risk register, decision notes and closure report in the {project name} Project. Create a lessons learned report based only on events documented in the sources. Write each item with fields for event, cause, impact, practice, recommendation, owner and source file. List contradictions separately. Obtain my approval before creating a page in Notion.

Evidence and real-world example

No independently published case study was found for this lessons learned scenario. Projects documents reusable context, while the Notion connector documents writing research results to a new knowledge base page. [167] [188]

Points to consider

Changes to Project files take effect in new tasks; they do not automatically change the context of previous tasks. If hospital files contain health data or personally identifiable information, redact them before uploading; the privacy policy states that this data may be processed if provided or authorized by the user. [167] [180]

Sources for this scenario

  1. Projects documentation (manus.im)
  2. Projects feature page (manus.im)
  3. Manus Privacy Policy (manus.im)
  4. Notion connector (manus.im)