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Asana makes Project Management easy for non-tech-savvy users
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of access is great especially on mobile. Even my older users who are not tech savvy love the program and their ability to see the day's tasks at a glance and complete tasks as they go. Email notifications make it easy for me to see what is being accomplished on a day-to-day basis.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cloud services are sometimes unavailable and I have difficulty uploading large attachments to tasks. Photo thumbnails seem to pick and choose when they show up vs when they appear as a hyperlink to the photo. Ability to edit team members (names, access to certain subtasks, email notifications to them vs the project creator/owner only, etc) would be nice, maybe this is something available with premium membership that I am not aware of. Would also like to see a more responsive calendar section that is not tied directly to a task list, and an option to email notify of upcoming events/tasks based on parameters set when making a calendar entry.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of access for use in the field on mobile devices has been greatly helpful.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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Excellent project management tool and personal to-do-list
What do you like best about the product?
• Excellent to do list
• Excellent tagging and cross-project to do lists.
• New kanban board functionality makes my other board productivity apps redundant (I can do everything virtually from asana)
• Always developing new things
• Free version has vast usability
• The app makes it highly usable across multiple devices
• Integrates with other things like Google Calendar
• Excellent tagging and cross-project to do lists.
• New kanban board functionality makes my other board productivity apps redundant (I can do everything virtually from asana)
• Always developing new things
• Free version has vast usability
• The app makes it highly usable across multiple devices
• Integrates with other things like Google Calendar
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much to dislike to be honest. Could have more background design features. It would be nice to have a button to switch lists into board mode at will. VERY minor dislikes. This online app is one of the best I have found. There could be better options in reports. I also wish that when you make projects, that the headings in your projects would stay static so that if you sort the tasks in a project then the tasks would sort underneath their headings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project management. What an amazing tool. Helps me in planning, strategy, managing multiple projects and meeting deadlines.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Most productivity apps have free versions like this so feel free to try all at once. After a few days you will find that the apps you can't ignore (like asana for me) will be your long term app. Asana offers a really no risk investment being free and you will find that it is tremendously useful. I was also you using Trello in conjunction with Asana, but with Asana's new 'board' functionality I have suddenly had no need for Trello anymore.
Easy to use, excellent UI, plenty of features
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite thing about Asana is how much it enables you to continue using it. With the ability to sync with any of your calendars, you are able to completely stay on top of all of your tasks at hand. Because of this, using Asana is a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing that I wish Asana had was a dedicated application for MacOS and Windows. Sometimes it's just another browser tab/window that is taking up space. I would love to be able to have it as a desktop application which can handle alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Asana to handle our due dates and make sure that our developers are on top of when their current projects are due. With the developers knowing when their projects are due, we are able to deliver our projects and products to customers in a timely manner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely take on Asana. It is a great product and when implemented with programs such as Slack it can become so powerful. With Slack you can have your deadlines appear from Asana directly in the chat, or private message your employees reminding them that things are due on a specific date. With Asana it has never been easier to keep on top of all of your current tasks.
Asana is my brain's external control center
What do you like best about the product?
I love how simple it is to create tasks directly from my email, which makes it possible for me to keep my inbox at zero while knowing that nothing is slipping through the cracks!
What do you dislike about the product?
If I could be granted one improvement for Asana, I wish that there was a way to have relative dates in templates. It saves me a ton of time being able to create project templates in one click, but then I have to manually set the dates on each task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I manage projects for my day job, my editing business, my author community, and my books in Asana. In one place, I can easily see what I need to do across all of my business projects; or I can just look at one project at a time and work in focused blocks of time. Before I started using Asana, I was always in a state of latent stress, wondering if I was working on the right task at the right time!
Excellent Tool for any size team
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is the best tool I've used for task management, particularly when it comes to documentation. So often things are lost in emails, and here everything is recorded so it is easy to refer back to things.
What do you dislike about the product?
There aren't things I necessarily dislike, but I think there are improvements that could be made to take it to another level. Adding "assignee" would be a big one, as well as being able to assign a task to a team and not necessarily an individual.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Task management and cross-functional team communication. We use this to better communicate not only within our teams, but to assign tasks outside of our team and communicate deadlines in one place.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Train your team so everyone is using it in the same way. I think this goes for every technology though, but setting a standard so no one gets lost in the many subtasks or projects will help everyone adopt quickly and effectively.
Email is a terrible way to manager your projects
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is the email killer. It puts everything in context of a task or conversation, give complete transparency to who is doing what, but has privacy too, if needed. Do you ever get added to an email and it doesn't have the original attachment? Or how about the double email, opps forgot the attachment. How about an email about X and a subject line that says Y. No more with asana, context is king and managing a task or project in context kills it every time.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not much to dislike about asana, and I'm being completely honest. Maybe the search could be better, but its 10x better than Outlook, so it's pretty hard to complain about it being a weakness.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We manage all our projects in asana and our problem was we would be requests for creative tasks via email and a google form. Then we had to manage each one individually, without being able to see status of each. We use asana for all of that and have visiability.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Stop managing work by email, use a project tool with an app for your device.
Asana will streamline your project management
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is to use Asana, no coding knowledge needed. It is incredibly easy to navigate the site and add team members. Organizing your notes, project milestones, and team member chats are very easy. I use Asana for client onboarding and it is a great use of the platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
I truly haven't found a feature I do not like, I wish there was a search feature that made it easier to find comment threads but if I can remember the topic or day it is easy to find the conversation with my team in the notes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to use Asana as a project managemenet tool. It is easy to lay out step-by-step, day-by-day the exact progression of a project my team and I are working on. We can easily upload files for sharing, schedule meetings, leave comments about particular elements of the project without sending a million emails back and forth. I love the chat feature that enables me to work with my team in different time zones without having to make a late night or early morning phone calls and still stay on track to meet deadlines.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I love how easy Asana is to navigate and use. There are wonderful features like the "like" button to comment on threads, the chat feature to host discussions with members of your team, the calendar is a wonderful way to lay out day-by-day the progression of the project you are working on. You can easily upload documents you need to share with your team and you can assign tasks to the entire team or specific individuals.
Asana Works Great for Simple Database Usage
What do you like best about the product?
I use Asana for a small side business that I run. It helps me to track current clients, former clients, potential clients, and track communications with all of them. Additionally it provides a simple platform to collect contact information, set reminders, etc. I use the free account, but it offers all of the features I need for the simple nature of the business I use it for.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I dislike is that the mobile app doesn't always communicate flawlessly with the desktop version. It seems to have a few glitches, but those seem to occur less and less over time. I do believe the company is working to fix these issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am currently using Asana as a small database for my business. It allows me to track conversations, contact information, and create queues of those I need to connect with, including past, present, and potential clients.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are running a small to medium sized business and are looking for a cost-effective solution to your database needs, check out this product. It is simple, easy to use, accessible across devices, and allows you to easily access stored information. I use this software to track conversations and contact information, to create to-do lists of past, present, and potential clients I want to connect with, and to track other business activities. This software is a time-saver for me for sure! I am grateful for the free version of this as well.
One of the best project management tools out there
What do you like best about the product?
Using Asana for many years and on multiple projects in various organizations (and personal), I can really recommend Asana as project management tool. It's not your all- in-one tool, but the simplicity makes the technology disappear so that you can focus on the work. If you need some more functionality, the integrations with other services work great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the limited feature-set is concerning, because you have to pay another company again for more features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All project management and remote working team management.
Keeping the ever growing task-list organized
What do you like best about the product?
My husband and I can see every task we've recorded n addition to assigning those tasks to a certain person at a particular time. Takes the stress off us to remember everything.
What do you dislike about the product?
Well, nothing really. The dislike is more with myself for forgetting to do what Asana tells me to do! :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Time and task management, communication between partners
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