Asana
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Asana works!
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is designed to keep track of your tasks and due dates in one easy to use software platform. You can follow others task and share with coworkers where you are at on a task. It allows for teams to keep track of all tasks due.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that certain changes to the settings effects all users and not just individual users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Task tracking and oversight
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I like Asana because you can create a task with a due date. You can also add sub-tasks to the tasks with their individual due dates. Then you can assign the big task to an individual and you can assign additional tasks to individuals too. Then you can add people as followers to a task. It is great when working on one project that has multiple moving parts. I also love that you can add comments to give people updates to the large task or to the individual sub-tasks. You can also comment to people by using the @ symbol then their name in Asana and they will get a notification that a comment is to them. You are able to organize your tasks by due date. Anytime a task is assigned to you it goes to your inbox in Asana and you will also receive an email. You also receive an email with upcoming tasks from Asana everyday which is a nice reminder to login and look at your to-do list.
Helpful task-management software!
What do you like best about the product?
I love the function that schedules tasks to recur after being marked 'complete.' Other to-do lists require the same tasks to be redrawn each time they are finished, but this is a very helpful way to keep regular weekly and monthly rhythms before my eyes. I also love the ability to assign tasks to a) specific projects and b) specific people.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not much to dislike, honestly. It's a very simple interface. Color-coding of projects helps create more order if you're a visualizer like myself. The formatting of each task is helpful and thorough. I haven't struggled at all with using this program.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's very helpful to have a supervisor assign a task, I receive the notification, then they are made aware once my task is completed. This takes delegation out of emails or face-to-face conversation and places it somewhere much more reliable and visible.
Makes my day to day so much simpler
What do you like best about the product?
I can keep track of everything that's happening with my business in a simple to use, great looking dashboard. Asana has the right amount of features for people looking to add to their regular to-do apps, but at the same time don't want to spend hours customizing stuff or learning how to use the software.
Everything is very intuitive. I've used Asana for different businesses (as freelancer, as employee, as project manager, as business owner) and always found a way to organize my workflow to serve my goals and role.
Everything is very intuitive. I've used Asana for different businesses (as freelancer, as employee, as project manager, as business owner) and always found a way to organize my workflow to serve my goals and role.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lately I've seen some notifications to go missing. My phone is not alerting my of new activity and the web app takes some time to refresh when there are new comments or tasks created.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I wanted to keep track of all my tasks and daily progress. Instead of using pen and paper scattered all around or combining 2 or 3 to-do apps to get where I wanted to be... now I use Asana.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the free trial to see if it fits your organization. The free trial comes with massive features that you can test before making a decision to upgrade.
Very useful!
What do you like best about the product?
My team wouldn't be functional without Asana. We did plenty of research on competitors and this was the best option for us. I also love how Zapier integrates with it to make things even EASIER. I love how you can comment back and forth on tasks, this is important when working with our Graphic Designer.
What do you dislike about the product?
The email notifications can be a bit much but that's the only main thing. I don't like the list view of my tasks either right when I log in. I usually prefer the board method with multiple lists according to project so I know exactly when and from which project something is.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organization, App Design and Development for clients, Marketing and Design tasks for our Graphic Designer on staff.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do it. Honestly there is no learning curve, it is very easy to understand for your entire team and the set up takes seconds.
I love using Asana
What do you like best about the product?
Asana helps keep our projects organized, have a great calendar view per each project, organization or person. Its’ easy to use and has nice design. Recently they added a new extension for Gmail, so it made it even easier to create and edit tasks within my Gmail view.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not much to dislike actually, sometimes it's being slow with big data volumes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing projects and seeing how they overlap using the calendar view
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a really good tool to manage all projects or tasks you have even for personal use. You can customize it according to your needs and each project
Great Management Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has awesome customization capabilities to tailor it to different types of tasks. It seems rare these days, but I've been very pleased with every single update they've rolled out over the last few years. They listen closely to their users and take feedback well.
What do you dislike about the product?
With this, it's actually a little difficult to find areas I truly dislike. Asana seems to hit the mark for what they created this platform for. Any other types of shortfalls that I've seen are nitpicky or technically out of their scope of business.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are an agency that manages about 100 clients between 40 employees. Asana is vital to keep everything running the way it should be. We pair it with Harvest to keep a close eye on the hours we spend on projects & tasks to ensure we're hitting the hours the client is paying for and avoiding going over hours on projects and tasks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Pair this application with Harvest for time tracking. This is a great way to get an honest test on how much time these tasks and project are taking you and/or your team to complete.
Keeps Work Streamlined and Efficient
What do you like best about the product?
All my tasks stay organized and prioritized. We can plan months ahead and communicate easily with our team. We can share status and updates quickly and easily. You can search for completed tasks just in case. Your entire history of work is kept in place and easily accessible.
What do you dislike about the product?
You can't make multiple due dates for a single task. Some tasks require this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
So many - it is the backbone of our agencies efficiency and organization. It helps us with client communication and internal communication. There are always so many things going on and Asana keeps us on track and organized.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It streamlines internal processes and helps keep things organized.
Actionability made easy with Asana.
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is wonderful for collaborating on projects with other members, teams, and departments. It's the first thing I check every morning, before my email even. My department uses it especially well, and since the day I started using it, the goals and expectations for our work has always been clear and easily discussable. As a general rule of life, I believe actionability is what enables things to get done, and Asana only highlights that truth.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the notification system was more noticeable. There is an "Inbox" that highlights what you've been assigned recently or any conversations you've been following or tagged in, but I think it would be nice to have a push notification system that actively notified you, without forcing you to switch to a new page to check these updates. I think this would prevent our team from missing less conversations when they get lost in our inbox. Ideally, I wish Asana could integrate with something like Slack, that has a great push notification system for real-time messaging within a team. If that was all possible within one platform, that would be absolutely perfect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've organized the "My Tasks" section into specific sections that make more sense for me, such as "Daily Tasks", "Quick Tasks", and "Long Term Goals". I love that I can visually sort my tasks by deadline, how long it would take to complete, and priority. I can understand the scope of projects easily with the use of projects, sections, tasks, and subtasks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider if your team is willing to make the most of Asana's abilities, which means committing to communicating and delegating tasks as often as possible on the platform. Like many other services, it only becomes more useful as more of your team uses it. Asana is better for planning the day's work or longer and is not as strong in terms of real-time communication across teams and individuals. It may need to be supplemented by a messaging service that has a better notification system.
Great task-management client
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is a great resource for keeping track of your own tasks, knowing what else you have coming up, and seeing what your other team-members' capacities are. Everything you have currently and coming up is out in front of you, and you can sort by due date, project, completion, etc. If you want to keep up with what a coworker is working on, you can add yourself as a follower to get notifications every time the task is modified or updated.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only drawback for Asana that I encountered was the frequency of the emails and notifications I received in the early going. Once I discovered how to modify my notification settings I found the experience to be much more enjoyable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organizing tasks into projects and sorting by due date is a great way to keep track of your own capacity or that of your coworkers/subordinates. There will never be any confusion regarding what someone has to work on. The Harvest time-tracking integration is particularly helpful for keeping track of how much time goes into each task, and it all links back to the specific task through harvest.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The only problem I encountered with Asana was the number of notifications I received before I discovered how to reduce the frequency of them. After making this change Asana has been a great user experience top to bottom. A fun tidbit: if you go into settings and select the "Tab-B" option and then hit those keys a few dozen times, it's a fun little easter egg!
Track your work faster than ever.
What do you like best about the product?
Much easy to visualize our work. I like that I can transfer work via multiple stages faster, easily, and wonderfully. I can simply create any project a success. To map out every step and organize all the details of our work in one apsce.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm glad that now we can work with this working tools.Which is really very clear and working well. We don't have any problem with it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can easily make all of the stuff in one place. More open and clear way to bring emails, files. The better way to share results with our group and see how work is progressing to see what’s on track and what needs consideration for a better result.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
With this software, you can create teams and projects individual to create a safe place for delicate work. Also, it is wonderful to designate management to control your organization’s usage and install safety controls so you feel sure that your information is secure.
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