Leave a Review Asana
Absolutely Love This App
I use both the desktop and mobile version of this task manager. I love the ability and ease of use for me to be able to add, assign, follow, update etc my workflow. I’m a GM if a hotel and we have turned this workspace into a place to not only track guest requests, cleaning schedules, waiting lists and more to preventive maintenance and deep cleaning schedules. This keeps us on schedule and on target for completing required work. The ability to comment and attach files keeps all relevant information in a central location and is easily searchable both for completed and incomplete tasks. I recommend this to everyone I can and even show it to new GMs that start the company as a tool to plan their hotels as well.Show lessJameson287
Perfect for a Design Team
I run a small design agency with less than 5 people, so we need a tool that is robust, but not so feature-filled that it’s cumbersome to manage. This combines the best of tools like Trello (Boards/Kanban method) with more full featured task management and collaboration. I’ve gone through a host of tools, paid and unpaid, and Asana has quickly become a favorite and indispensable part of our day to day operations. The app itself offers most, if not all, of the features of the web app and is super fast. Highly recommended.Show lesstaylortsantles
Meh. Kind of counterproductive
I like efficiency and any app that offers a way to streamline communications has my vote. Sadly, Asana fails at a critical function: notifications. Either you must leave email notifications turned on or you'll never be alerted when your assigned a task or someone leaves a comment. Unless you sit at your computer staring at the Austin a screen waiting for a tiny orange dot to appear in the menu bar. Until Asana adds push notifications to text or desktop, there's little efficiency gain over just emailing files and comments to people. I want to like Asana for its simplicity and aesthetic, but for team communications it needs more work to provide real gains.Show lessBooyashaka 2011
Can’t easily access labels
I like the app for the most part. My only complaint is the confusing interface to filter tasks by label and long process of even adding labels to tasks.
Initially I thought that to filter by label I first have to remember a task that has the label I want, then click into that task and tap the label I want to filter. I’d much prefer a “filter by label” added to the drop down that includes “uncompleted” and such.
EDIT: It took some poking around, but for some unknown reason the ability to filter by task is under the Favorites tab in Projects. Sorry, but that makes very little sense. I’m glad I figured it out, but how does putting the ability to filter by label under Projects make any sense? They’re applied to tasks, so there should be that ability in the TASK list! This is a failure in basic interface design.
Also, for adding a label I have to created the task in the task list, then click into the task, tap the edit button, tap add label, and then type in the label. Far too many clicks. This greatly reduces the usefulness of the app to me since I use labels extensively. Couldn’t you do a pop-up like iCal on the desktop does that allows you to change some of the basics of an entry?
Good things about the app are that I can have my to-do list easily accessible on the go and assign team members to tasks relatively easily.Show lessmurraycs
Amazing App
Not to discount the review below me. But god knows many apps have short comings. Honestly this app is a great start to a program which to my knowledge is free? Least I have not encountered a time where I needed to pay. The desktop may have a bit more but I've seen many programs fall way shorter. In fact this is the first app I've taken a time to review. Again the guy below me might have run into some issues and I think the developers should take those into account, but honest to god to say this app is a watered down todo list is pretty misrepresented. Again if he paid and found it lacking by all means complain. But I can say I've found a few apps and even online versions of paid programs more lacking (cough) QBOShow lessJinhhh
I like the app but there are few things it could use
The app is awesome! I use the project feature to communicate with my web designer the changes I want made to our website. It cuts down on meeting time because I leave images showing what I want done then he can log in and modify at his convenience.
I will say though.... the app does crash unexpectedly from time to time which becomes a distraction.
Also, I would really love to see a calendar feature so meetings, important dates, tasks, and projects can be consolidated within one app.Show lessGenghisK_08
