As a free online project management tool, Asana is a popular application especially with freelancers, small teams and startup companies of up to 15 people or less. In our first article on the list, a freelance designer and coach shares her experience in using the tool with a guide on how to really use Asana to organize your clients and projects. It is followed by a step-by-step guide article written by a marketing director who has given up on email and instead learned and shares how to manage projects with this project management tool. Last in the list, an entrepreneur shares a complete guide on how to use it for project management, whether for team projects or for personal organization.

How to Really Use Asana to Organize Your Clients and Projects

The site ByRegina hosted an article written by Nesha Woolery, a freelance designer and coach, about how she is successfully organizing her clients and projects with the help of Asana. She shared the challenges and difficulties […]

Asana project management and collaboration tool continuously updates its features to provide users the tools to not only manage their projects and tasks, but also their organizations and teams. Usually, Asana accounts are tied to individuals. However, Asana can create an organization based on a company’s shared email domain. Organization membership is based on the domain associated with a member’s email address. Therefore, people who sign up with an email address with the same email domain are automatically created as members of the organization. Organization administrators play an important role in creating and managing teams within the organization as well as protecting data and monitoring people’s access to it.

New Feature – Team Management

Asana has two versions, the free version and the premium version. Organization administrators of the premium version have more tools and capabilities in managing their company’s Asana organization. An organization connects all employees, but users within that organization can further be grouped into teams. As teams, users can then collaborate on projects and tasks. To […]

Asana is a web-based productivity tool that helps users track their work. It is a versatile application that can be used in a variety of professional and personal work settings, including creating the perfect to-do list. It can be used alone for organization and efficiency, or together with other applications from among 36 conversion rate optimization tools that help keep websites in business. Rounding up our news list, Asana makes it in the best 10 awesome productivity apps for Android, helping even users on the go move their work forward.

The Perfect To-Do List – And How to Make One

In this recent Turbine blog, an attempt was made to describe what the perfect to-do list would look like. Turbine is an application that allows simple online purchase orders. About 7 characteristics and features were listed, first of which is that the list should prompt the owner to action. It should be concise, containing not more than 3 tasks, and clearly worded as specific accomplishments, not as […]

Asana team workflow and project management software recently announced the final feature being released for Polish Week. It is an Asana tradition during Polish Week when the company focuses on smaller but important issues to further improve or ‘polish’ the application. The final instalment focuses on the status update feature, in itself, an already powerful tool for providing teammates and stakeholders vital information. Polishing this feature further, users can now put comments and take the information to a higher level of engagement.

Project Status Updates

Asana enables project owners to communicate the current state of their projects through project status updates. This visibility is important to the project team and to the stakeholders who want to know how things are going on with the project, whether things are going on as planned or whether it needs additional attention or help. It is therefore essential that project owners update their project’s status on a weekly basis, and the application allows them to set up reminders to do exactly that. […]

Asana team application provides people a fast way to track projects in a highly visual way from start to finish. In this news list, surprising use of research and focus on customer experience will be shared in an upcoming webinar titled How Asana’s head of customer success has built a cult following. Also, a resource for educational web tools recommends 3 excellent collaborative task management tools for teachers in collaborating with colleagues on various tasks and projects. Finally, an article shares 16 essential tools to help streamline your workload this summer, so that people can have more free time to enjoy the season.

How Asana’s Head of Customer Success Has Built a Cult Following

In this Venture Beat article, Brian Boroff, Asana’s Head of Customer Success and User Operations, gives some information of how companies like Intel, Dropbox, Airbnb and Uber remain devoted in using their popular app. He revealed that through the hard work and feedback of a research team who looks at user profiles and identifies […]

It’s springtime and one of the favorite phrases we hear from folks eager to improve their lives is ‘Spring Cleaning!’. It doesn’t necessarily have to be just about scrubbing your floors and cleaning your closets, however. By keeping track of your important projects and tasks in Asana, and carrying out a bit of tidying up every now and then can have a huge impact on your work efficiency and performance.

Archive Projects

Asana gives users the ability to have as many projects as they want and to store information for an indefinite period of time. But to keep your dashboard from turning into a cluttered mess, it is advisable to archive the old project to make thing neater on the sidebar. By archiving old projects, you’ll be removing it from the search results and projects list, but they are still accessible for reference at any time.

All you need to do to archive a project is:

• Open the project you wish to archive
• Click the carrot icon next to the project’s name to display possible actions
• Click “Archive Project.”

Simple […]

At Asana, Polish Week is an important event. It is a week-long event aimed at identifying and making small changes that make big impacts. There were new Polish Week features that were rolled out in late February, as well as the Dashboard Views feature that was rolled out in April. However, that is not all. Here are some further improvements as a part of Polish Week.

Using Quick Add to Attach Files

It is now easy to create a new task using Quick Add. It is an ideal and easy way of writing the to-do list from anywhere on the app. Adding attachments has been made incredibly easy. To attach a file using Quick add, click the ‘+’ icon on the top bar. From the resulting drop down, select ‘Task’, then ‘Attachments’. You can attach files from DropBox, Google Drive, Box or your local hard drive. In addition, before finalizing the attachment, you will see a preview to make sure everything is in order.

Modify Project Owner from the Header

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On March 30th 2016, Asana raised $50M in new capital. It was a good day for Asana and its team, and they shared this thrilling news and their success with all their customers. It is an amazing depiction of how far Asana have come, and with these fund, the team will aim to make work tracking more prevalent across the world, make Asana easier to use, and continue adding important features for companies of all sizes.

Founders of this product, Dustin Moskovitz, and Justin Rosenstein worked previously in companies like Google and Facebook. Initially, they built this tool out of their own needs, but soon realized that other companies as well struggle with coordination. Thus, Asana was born because they believed that every organization can be successful and should aspire to achieve greater goals.

The number of their paying customers increased and are estimated to be around 13,000. The team, consisting of 186 people, had their heart and sweat invested in the project, and they are happy to see it paying off. The […]

Asana is one of the most convenient ways for teams to keep a track on their project. From projects and tasks to dashboards and conversations, the app allows team to move their work right from the scratch to its completion and get results. It’s free for teams up to 15 individuals, with the main focus being allowing users to manage tasks and projects online without the use of email.

Trello is another collaboration tool similar to Asana that organizes your projects into boards and cards. Just by a single glance, the app lets you know on what’s being worked on, the stage of the project and who’s working on it. Here are two articles on both these awesome apps. The first one is an interview with Asana’s cofounder Dustin Moskovitz while the second is a comparison between Asana and Trello.

Asana’s cofounder Dustin Moskovitz’ views on startups

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Asana is a work productivity tool that helps people think and feel better about work. It provides a place where not only teams are enabled and empowered to collaborate effortlessly, but also provides the platform where people can work with clarity and focus to produce great results. Early this month, the Asana team worked on a couple of frequently requested features, and users are excited by the amount of time saved and insight gained from the results of these improvements.

Dashboard Views Improvements

One of the feature improvements made was on the My Dashboard. In general, dashboards provide a high-level view of the team’s progress regarding the projects they are working on. By displaying several progress charts in one view, dashboards instantly provide status of projects, but more importantly keep the team on the same page and allow them to quickly decide how and when to move forward. My Dashboard displays project cards with the most up-to-date information, providing the team a reference point of where […]