Asana

The top 3 things that I like about Asana - The ability to easily set up a new project and add outside clients to said project. Being able to integrate with other programs that I use on a daily basis. For example, Asana integrates with Slack which allows me to receive notifications when a user accepts an invite to a project. Asana's commitment to releasing new features, and their ability to listen to their user's needs.

We considered it as a candidate given its non-intimidating learning curve and boilerplate project examples. It was much easier to start a project in Asana The overall design aesthetic was way more pleasant to the eyes as well.

I like that Asana offers different views for your tasks that help you see only the info you need at the time. I personally use the My Tasks section most, but do go into projects as well and will use filters. I love the comment feature because this has kept my email inbox much clearer. All questions/discussion around a task are within that task, rather than in separate emails. I used to hold off on emailing my boss quick questions (to save her inbox) and would ask them in our weekly meeting instead. Now I ask quick questions via Asana comments, and we cut out weekly meeting from 1 hour to 30 minutes.

There are not a whole lot of things to dislike about Asana. But if I had to name a few they would be: - The learning curve when you are just starting out is a little steep. - Some of the important features are locked by the premium price level. - If you are using their form feature, you cannot designate where that form will end up after it is completed by a customer, employee, etc.

- Integrations are not as comprehensive as other platforms - Pricing was not competitive - Great for simpler projects, starts to fall flat as you grow your org and the nature of how teams operate changes

Recurring tasks are not displayed on the calendar except for the upcoming incomplete one. For example, if you have a task due every Friday, only *this* Friday's task will show on your calendar. If you looked ahead at your tasks for next week, you wouldn't see that Friday task. We wanted to use an Asana calendar to keep track of all our marketing communications, but for recurring monthly comms, we'd have to either 1) create a task for each individual monthly comm or 2) accept that they won't populate except for the upcoming month. So we're continuing to use another tool for our comms calendar. Other dislike - we did a free trial of a paid plan to try out the paid features. One of the features was task dependencies. I did not remove the task dependencies at the end of the free trial, assuming they'd just go away. When the free trial ended, we were locked out of entire projects because they used paid features. They have since updated their documentation to be more clear, but we had to pay extra to upgrade our plan just to get access to projects and tasks, even though we hadn't decided on upgrading yet. Another dislike is that when in List view (seeing your tasks listed out with different columns like a spreadsheet for due date, assignee, etc.) you can only expand to see the first level of subtasks. It can make it slow to navigate to subtasks that are nested several levels deep.