Asana MCP Server

What do you like best about the product?

Ability to organize many people, many projects, keep track of individual tasks, and bring unity to my staff

What do you dislike about the product?

A bit overwhelming to get used to and get trained on. Also sends way too many email notifications by default. Tasks without due dates and/or projects are way too easily lost/forgotten about. I wish project templates could be copied.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cross-department collaboration is much smoother when done in Asana and avoids lack of a paper trail and/or abundant emails back and forth

What do you like best about the product?

With Asana, it is easy to create an actionable work breakdown down for larger initiatives with task owners, realistic deadlines, and milestones. What's more, I really like that one can easily switch to the appropriate view (List, Board, Timeline, and Calendar), depending on what kind of project we are working with right now. The discussion, files, approvals, and status updates are directly connected to the task at hand.

What do you dislike about the product?

This tool works only if everyone uses it regularly. In case some team members forget about updating their task statuses and deadlines, the project will be hard to follow. For larger initiatives, sometimes the dashboard is quite overcrowded, and such advanced tools as portfolio management, reports, and automation are available only in the premium version.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Asana eliminates the need for spreadsheets, emails, and other ad hoc ways to track work progress. With this tool, teams always know what's going on in terms of priorities, blockers, dependencies, and upcoming deadlines.

What do you like best about the product?

I love how flexible Asana is to organize things, the color coding makes it easy to review information or projects quickly. Its integration with Claude makes work even faster and easier. It also consolidates all of our work and projects and campaigns into one place, which is great for aligning the team and making sure we are not crossing-over campaigns to the same audience. Plus, it was super easy to set up and start to build out.

What do you dislike about the product?

I'd like to be better able to customize people's names and icons to make it easier to skim and to not have archived projects come up in the list so I don't add things to old projects.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Asana consolidates all our work and projects, aligning the team and preventing campaign overlap.

What do you like best about the product?

we take on freelance design requests from a bunch of different clients and used to get requests through email, texts, sometimes just a phone call with someone talking fast while I scribbled notes. Built an intake form in Asana now, client fills it out, and it creates a task with all the details already there, deadline, budget, what they actually want. No more piecing together a project from three different conversations.

What do you dislike about the product?

Got a little carried away adding fields to the form early on, ended up with something so long a couple clients just stopped halfway through filling it out. Had to trim it down after realising that.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Client intake used to be scattered and messy, now it is one form and a task shows up with everything I need already in it. Learned the hard way that a shorter form actually gets completed, so less really was more there. Been running smoother since I cut it down, clients finish it and I am not chasing details anymore.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Asana is the Timeline view. It allows me to visualize project deadlines and dependencies clearly. When I adjust one task, all related tasks update automatically, which saves me hours of manual work. I also love the custom fields feature, as it lets me track progress exactly how my team needs. The ability to create different project views (List, Board, Calendar, Timeline) makes it flexible for any workflow. The task assignment and due date reminders keep everyone accountable.
Overall, Asana has significantly improved our team's productivity and communication, making it easy to manage multiple projects simultaneously without missing deadlines.

What do you dislike about the product?

My main dislike is the mobile app. It feels slower and less responsive compared to the desktop version. Many features, like advanced search and reporting, are either limited or missing on the phone, which makes it hard to stay productive when I'm not at my desk. Also, the notification system can be overwhelming, as it sends too many alerts for every small update.
I wish there were more filtering options for notifications to reduce the noise. Another area for improvement is the learning curve for new team members; the interface has so many features that it can be confusing at first, and the onboarding tutorials could be more helpful.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Asana solves two main problems for our team: task disorganization and communication
gaps.
Before Asana, we used scattered email threads and spreadsheets to track projects, which often led to missed deadlines and unclear
responsibilities. Asana centralizes everything in one place, so everyone knows exactly what to do and when.
The Timeline view helps us spot bottlenecks before they happen, and task dependencies ensure that work flows smoothly from one person to the next. This has reduced project delays by nearly 30%.
Also, the comment section and file attachments keep all project-related communication tied directly to each task, eliminating the need for long email chains. Now, we spend less time in meetings and more time actually getting work done. Overall, Asana has made our team more efficient, accountable, and aligned on priorit

What do you like best about the product?

I like using Asana mainly because it saves us a lot of time by keeping all projects updated in one place, so we don't waste time. The Kanban boards and timeline view make it super easy for everyone to see tasks and deadlines clearly, giving us a clear visual of all active tasks and deadlines, so we can avoid overlap and stay on track without extra meetings. The initial setup was very easy, it took us just a few minutes.

What do you dislike about the product?

I find the email notifications too much as they quickly flood my inbox for every minor update.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Asana to track daily tasks and project deadlines, saving time by keeping everything updated in one place. The Kanban boards and timeline view help us see tasks and deadlines clearly, avoiding overlap and reducing the need for extra meetings.

What do you like best about the product?

We had a product launch a few months back with like six teams involved, and the timeline view is what kept it from falling apart. I could see exactly which tasks overlapped and where two teams were accidently counting on the same week to finish different things. Caught that early enough to actually fix it instead of finding out the week of launch.

What do you dislike about the product?

Search is weirdly hit or miss. I will type in a task name I know exists and sometimes it just does not show up unless I search the exact wording, which is annoying when I am trying to find something fast.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

That launch would have been way messier without the timeline catching the overlap issue when it did. Search still bugs me honestly, feels like it should be smarter than it is. But for keeping a multi team project from quietly falling apart, it's done its job.

What do you like best about the product?

The portfolio view is what genuinely changed how we operate. I can see every active campaign across the team on one screen, instead of opening ten different projects just to check status. Before, I was pinging four people every Monday simply to piece everything together.

The rules feature helps too. I set it up so that when tasks move to “Ready to review,” they’re automatically assigned to our design lead, rather than me having to remember to tag her every time.

What do you dislike about the product?

Custom fields get messy once you have got a lot of them. We have got leftover fields from an old process nobody uses anymore, and cleaning that up keeps sliding down the priority list.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Checking status used to eat a whole morning of chasing people down for updates. Now the portfolio view handles that in about two minutes. The custom field clutter is annoying, but it's more of a "we should clean this up" problem than something the tool's actually doing wrong.

What do you like best about the product?

First thing I check is my tasks, sorted by what's due. No more guessing what's actually urgent. I also like that if one task depends on another, it shows up on the timeline, so I don't get blindsided when something's stuck.

What do you dislike about the product?

Notifications got out of hand fast once I was on more projects. Had to go turn a bunch off manually.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before this I'd start my day unsure what actually needed attention first. Now my tasks handles that sorting for me. The dependency thing has saved me a couple times too, caught a blocker early instead of finding out when it was already late. Notifications needed some cleanup at first but it's fine now.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Asana is how clearly it organizes work. It makes it easy to assign ownership, track deadlines and dependencies, and keep all relevant updates and files in one place. The different project views—such as lists, boards, calendars, and timelines—also make it adaptable to different teams and workflows.

What do you dislike about the product?

What I dislike about Asana is that it can become overwhelming in larger or more complex projects. Notifications can be noisy, and keeping projects, tasks, and custom fields consistently organized requires ongoing discipline. Some advanced features also feel gated behind higher-priced plans.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Asana solves the problem of scattered work across messages, emails, and documents by giving the team one place to track tasks, ownership, deadlines, and progress. This improves accountability, reduces missed follow-ups, and makes it easier to see priorities and blockers, helping work move forward more efficiently.