Despite how crowded this category is, the options still all seem to be pretty rough. Does anyone really like their project management software?
Check out hiTask, it has been around since 2007.
Meet the new Asana
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
After trying dozens of personal productivity tools for web/mobile/desktop (and writing my own Asana clone[1]), about 2 years ago I settled on Trello. I use it every single day, many times a day. I find it's the perfect balance of flexibility and simplicity for me. Plus it's free. Having said that, when I've tried using Trello with teams, I tend not to like it nearly as much. I think the Hard Problem with team product…
Try out wiplo.com, I made it for this specific purpose (team + personal use)
Would be nice to put pricing information and explain what you get with a free account on the front page. I won't sign up without that info.
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#53Does anyone else feel like the new Asana reminds them of Basecamp.
(That's not a bad thing. I just find it interesting that the market of project management tools are getting ever simpler to the point that they all are essentially converging on becoming just todo lists. Eg wunderkist, basecamp, etc)
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#54Despite how crowded this category is, the options still all seem to be pretty rough. Does anyone really like their project management software?
I think the real problem is email. It's this antiquated technology that doesn't fit into the modern software as a service tools everyone uses to get things done. Email worked in the world of desktop apps but the snail mail paradigm email emulates is antithetical to the real-time fast paced team collaboration everyone is trying to achieve. Yet nothing manages to replace email, we depend on email above all else and wha…
This is exactly why I created Donald (http://getDonald.com). So many clients just default to email and don't use whatever project management system you ask them to. Sometimes even your own team defaults to email above all else.
I agree with you that email is a utility at this point that isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I think it's a matter of successfully integrating and organizing email alongside other apps/systems, and I do think that's possible.
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#55Those three circles swirling and flickering everywhere in the screen in the video were so distracting that I couldn't even follow what they were trying to say. I wish the video was much more straight-forward instead of being "mesmerizing".
They weren't trying to say anything.
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#56> The new Asana is designed to give you a feeling of calm and focus (ahhh…). When you first start a project, it looks like a simple sheet of crisp, white paper. But as you work, elements animate and light up in delightful ways (oooh…). When you complete tasks and get results with your team, Asana celebrates with you—and sometimes a flying unicorn does too. Does anyone else find this tone off-putting? I think it's the…
Yeah man! I'm repulsed by all software that tries to have an attitude.
People with attitudes are cool when they keep themselves fresh and upredictable, and adapt to the feedback they get. When 'attitude' is repetitive or predictable, or doesn't heed it's feedback, it becomes a horribly grating gimic.
I want my computers to be computer-like. Predictable, flavorless tools that give feedback in terms of 'success' or 'error' only. I don't want a virual personal assistant that tries to cover its lack of functionality with 'personality'. I don't want my activity monitor to encourage me to reach 'goals' it set. I don't want my project management software to include rewards- how fucking patronizing is that? The reward is the project that I'm working on! Not a color splash or smiley face in the glorified checklist I'm using!
Let's transplant an Asimov robot's (lack of) personality into my phone and rm -r /Siri/
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I really like a lot of what you've done, though there's still some polish needed (I love that you do polish weeks). Asana has been fantastic to work with, and it really makes it possible to do my job. Thank you! One thing I'm sorry to see continue to go unfixed is the inability to copy and paste text out of MS Word or Outlook into asana without losing formatting and having the spaces removed between words. I've spoke…
When was the last time you've tried? We support some amount of formatting https://blog.asana.com/2014/06/rich-text/
When I copy: http://i.imgur.com/80gJEXF.png
from outlook (though it also does this with word), and paste into asana, I get: http://i.imgur.com/zpLqiId.png
If I recall correctly, the problem began when you rolled out richtext last year. I'd imagine its due to Word including lots of invisible markup like `
`.I'd think Office is ubiquitous enough that many people have this issue.
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#58I have used Asana in the past - I think their technology (Luna, or whatever it is now called) is impressive but every single client I have now days is using Slack and I was forced to convert over - I know it is a different product but it integrates with Github, CircleCi, etc. so you can basically accomplish the same thing through integration (at least it seems that way)
Slack and Asana are completely different, I'm not sure how you can say they accomplish the same thing. Slack is a group chat and Asana is for task management. My company actually uses both, and Asana is integrated with Slack. We can create Asana tasks directly from a Slack conversation and assign them to someone. As a software developer, ideally I want to be using Jira. We're a small company of 8 and decided we needed something for everyone, not just developers, and right now we've settled on Asana and I love it. Our business and marketing projects are organized very differently than our development projects, and that's great.
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#59I'm interested to see that people refer to Asana as "project management" software when it's really a glorified todo list. How does it significantly differ from the other todo list products in the space (e.g. donedone, todoist)? Are people using it to work with external clients or in place of a bug tracker?
It's both a glorified todo list and bona fide project management software. For examples, it handles in-app notifications around the task lifecycle, task hierarchies, a calendar, a "team" abstraction, and an abstraction it calls "projects" which I believe can be configured to a custom business workflow. In our 6 person org, it has indeed replaced email (we have Slack of course, too).
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#60I have used Asana in the past - I think their technology (Luna, or whatever it is now called) is impressive but every single client I have now days is using Slack and I was forced to convert over - I know it is a different product but it integrates with Github, CircleCi, etc. so you can basically accomplish the same thing through integration (at least it seems that way)
Slack and Asana are completely different, I'm not sure how you can say they accomplish the same thing. Slack is a group chat and Asana is for task management. My company actually uses both, and Asana is integrated with Slack. We can create Asana tasks directly from a Slack conversation and assign them to someone. As a software developer, ideally I want to be using Jira. We're a small company of 8 and decided we neede…
I'm in the same boat as the parent: ALL my clients use Slack, and none of them wanted to use Asana, so I gave up.
Sure, Asana does task management... but that's about all it does. Slack is a lot more casual, and you can create channels for each project and have conversations there about who will be doing which task.
Internally, we actually use Trello for task management. Honestly, it's far superior to Asana in terms of ease of use and flexibility. It has less features, but that just encourages keeping things organized in simple ways, which is great.