Meet the new Asana
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Meet the new Asana
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#2Asana is great but a no better tool than Trello or wunderlist. The todo list, project management space is too crowded and the differing methodology for team management makes it hard for any system with opinion to really get a large market share.
I think single function apps in this space is better, like slack for chatting and dropbox for file sharing. Composite tools like Asana is not as flexible over time.
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#3We're really excited about this launch, it's been months in the making.
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#4We're really excited about this launch, it's been months in the making.
The refresh looks nice but Asana really needs the ability to create custom fields in tasks and maybe an agile view as well.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
The refresh looks nice but Asana really needs the ability to create custom fields in tasks and maybe an agile view as well.
Custom fields in tasks will be out in early 2016!
Yeah, they're in beta right now. They work well but we're polishing them before public launch.
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#7Lot of talk about Asana Conversations in here. Really hope they've fixed them on mobile. I can't get them to work on the mobile site when I click on links to them in my notification e-mails, I have to either go to the desktop site in my mobile browser and navigate to the conversations or just go to my laptop. It's a major aggravation for me.
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#8I've struggled to really engage with Asana, when I've had to use it in the recent past. I hope these enhancements make their product better, but apart from one part-time role where I have to use it, Asana isn't my first choice. Keyboard shortcuts are good, but often forgotten and the buttons to do the same not always easily found. Formatting options are limited - I'm not aware of a wide range of Markdown being supported. It's just been an OK experience, without making me want to really buy into the ecosystem.
Over the last 12 months I've tried, and paid for, both Trello and ToDoist. They were both OK, in a bit of a limited way. I really wanted a bit more than either of them offered.
After much investigation and demo use with the likes of Taiga (I really, really wanted to like this, but it was just a bit too locked into a quite rigid Scrum and Sprint approach, when sometimes all I need is a To Do list), Tuleap and Restyaboard, I've now installed my own instance of Kanboard (http://kanboard.net/) on the bottom end DI droplet.
It looks a bit ugly out of the box, but an hour of messing about with a little custom CSS and I think it looks as good as anything else.
I really like the ability to switch views between Kanban board, task list, calendar and a basic Gantt view. This keeps, to some extent, everyone working on the projects happy, especially as many of my team members aren't coming from a development background.
Kanboard seems to be actively developed and reasonably bug free.
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#9We're really excited about this launch, it's been months in the making.
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 spoken to support about it, but get a response of "just copy and paste it into textedit or notepad, then copy that into asana", which isn't really a solution.
We use asana for graphic design projects (among many other things) where text formatting is important. Bits and pieces often come out of emails, and it would be a huge productivity boost to be able to work directly in comments and task descriptions instead of attachments (or having to paste, fix, and reformat each comment).
Seems like it would be an important feature, it's a problem I work around daily.
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#10We're really excited about this launch, it's been months in the making.
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/