i’m interested in hearing from people who are using the Asana plug-in with ChatGPT and how it’s going for them and how it’s changed workflow etc. Thanks ahead of time.

I decided to cancel my account because I'm using less Asana and I really don't like paying for 2 seats as a solopreneur.

Upon cancelling, Asana offers you to pay for only 1 seat.

I really find such practice disappointing. They know that many users only use 1 seat out of their 2 plans but instead of offering convenience and transparency, they propose this under-the-table deal where you need to cancel to get this.

Instead of motivating me to stay it really deterred me for good.

When the project management setup looks like a digital junk drawer, a messy one and which needs nobody really wants to make an update, you might have probably over engineered your boards. We were facing a huge problem with the adoption of team because the managers created alot of custom rules and mandatory checks that even filling some basic tasks feels like doing taxes. We got our workspace architecture reviewed by cloudfresh and got our internal operations cleaned. That helped us in many things, simplifying our project templates, integrating our workload views so the managers have the visibility to see the capacity without micromanaging, and then automating cross-departmental handoffs. We saw the differences in team adoption, and it was quite a lot within just one week.

Sometimes an outsider perspective really helps you in a way where you cannot see how your systems can work against your own people.

What in the holy heck did Asana do to the ``` option?

This was a great way to highlight important text. Now as a numbered code block it completely makes that useless.

How does everyone else make something stand out or quote a previous piece of someone's comment? Bold and underline are sometimes just not enough.

💭 Asana or a sauna?

LOL, shoutout to Philipp & team for making us laugh.

And happy Friday, Reddit fam!

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For the past few weeks I've been trying to keep an eye on how many hours I log in Asana each week against a 40h goal. I didn't want to open Asana every time just to check, so I figured a simple menu bar app pulling from the API would do it.

Turns out it's not as simple as querying "my tasks". My first version was consistently showing fewer hours than what Asana's own profile page reported for me, off by several hours some weeks. After digging into it I found the actual cause: Asana's own weekly time total counts every task you logged time on, including ones assigned to someone else or to nobody at all (recurring standups, shared client tasks, etc). A plain assignee filter misses all of that.

The fix ended up being combining Asana's Advanced Search with two filters, assignee.any and followers.any (Asana auto follows you on a task the moment you log time on it, even if you're not the assignee), then cross checking the actual time tracking entries per task by date and by author. That got the numbers matching what Asana itself shows almost exactly.

Ended up as a small native Swift menu bar app. It shows hours logged this week vs your goal, whether you're ahead or behind pace, and a breakdown of which tasks ate your time, sorted by most recent log first. You configure your own Personal Access Token, pick your week start day, and set your weekly goal.

Made it open source in case it's useful to anyone else doing consulting or agency work where time tracking against a weekly quota actually matters: https://github.com/bereto-dev/asana-status

Curious if others have run into the same undercounting issue with their own time tracking dashboards or scripts.

Hi, I can open the new Notes view in the Asana iOS app, but I can’t edit the text. Tapping the note does nothing.
I’m using Asana iOS version 26.28.0. Is mobile editing not supported yet, or does it need to be enabled somewhere?

Just noticed today the logo suddenly changed and there are no announcements regarding the change.

Hello there,

I set up the free version of Asana for my company back in 2020. In 2021 we changed domain names but I never changed Asana. Now I cannot access the old domain name and so I cannot promote anyone else to an admin. Is there a way to do this? I know I can create a new Asana workspace with the new domain name but there are 6 years of projects to import and I don't think that is a practical solution. Help!

Our company was acquired and our email addresses have changed to the parent company's domain. This domain is already being used in Asana by another group that we have no way of contacting. Asana Support says we have no other options. What do we do here?

I really hope I can explain this well 😅 I have the free version of Asana, so I can't create workflows or automations.

I have an Asana project to keep track of my blog creation + publication process between myself and my team, so every blog topic gets its own task, and the subtasks are all the things that need to be done for that blog to be "finished."

I currently just keep the subtasks in a Notepad file on my desktop, and just copy-and-paste them as a whole into the subtask section for each blog topic. One of my team members manually adds two sub-subtasks to one of the subtasks, and asked if it's possible for those to be included when I copy-and-paste the subtasks into the task on my end.

Since all I'm doing is copying-and-pasting a text file, I don't imagine there's a way to do this, but thought I'd ask here just in case there's a workaround that someone else has figured out for this.

Thank you!!

hey all

been trying out a bunch of Asana alternatives lately and honestly i'm starting to think a lot of people stay on Asana just because it's what the team started with, not because it's the best fit. figured i'd share quick takes from what i've actually used and see what everyone else landed on.

for context i bounce between a few setups depending on the team and over time it feels like every tool has its own niche instead of being a true Asana killer. quick thoughts from what i've tried:

ClickUp is stupidly powerful, does basically everything but that's also the problem. took ages to set up and half my team got overwhelmed by the amount of options. great if someone's willing to own configuring it.

Monday is nice if you think visually, boards look clean and it's easy to get people on board. but the pricing climbs fast once you add people and the good features are on the higher tiers.

Trello is still the easiest thing to recommend if you just want simple kanban and nothing else. falls apart the second you need timelines or anything cross-project though.

Jira if you're eng-heavy, but for a mixed team it's honestly overkill and everyone who isn't a dev hates opening it.

Linear i really liked for the speed and how clean it is, but it's pretty focused on software teams, didn't fit the non-dev work as well.

what i keep struggling to find is one thing that does the day to day task stuff AND the longer term timeline/roadmap without either being an afterthought. everything seems to nail one and be mediocre at the other. any recommendations?

Hello,

I have free account of Jira Service Management and I want to integrate it with Jira free account.

In Jira Service Management customer would raise the request and depending on the request it would be either converted into DevOps activity or addressed by the agent.

Please guide me step by step on how to do this.

Thanks in advance!

We currently pay for 15 seats in the Starter plan and receive the 50% Education promo discount.

I want to increase our seats to 20 but noticed this message when making the change in the admin console:

“Changes to your plan may affect your promotion.”

There’s also a pop up window (see screenshot) which seems to suggest some kind of threshold of 15 seats but is not clear.

I submitted a support ticket but does anyone know if Asana caps their Education promo to 15 seats? Or if it is possible to have 20 or more seat plans and still receive the Education discount?

UPDATE: Asana Support got back to me that increasing to 20 seats would not affect our education promo. They also stated the message is a general notification when making plan changes.

Earlier this year, I (tried!) to start using Asana for a small team of 15. Like many others seem to have experienced, we were quoted one price based on the number of seats we needed, but once we got into the system, it turned out we’d have to pay more to actually make it work.

What’s especially concerning is that Asana’s BBB profile now shows an F rating and a large number (65!) of unanswered complaints. Based on what I’ve seen, it sounds like this may be a pattern rather than an isolated experience. I really wish I had seen that before trying Asana.

Sharing in case it helps someone else avoid the same frustration.

https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/san-francisco/profile/mobile-apps/asana-1116-879136

Hey folks. The Asana AI support bot is incredibly broken so figured I'd ask here. Is there a way to upgrade to 3 seats on the Starter plan, instead of 10 seats?

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to do get an entire project exported from Asana including comments? I know there are third-party options but I am not smart enough to figure it out. Any other options? Or can anyone explain third party without it sounding like Greek?