Asana Reviews

Organized File storage: There's one master view for file storage, OR you can store files in individual tasks. Overall, for visually-driven individuals - and for those who need a strong sense of organization, it's not that helpful.

Visual organization inside of tasks: The view inside of tasks could be improved for visually focused individuals; I find myself wanting more of a "notebook" view that better integrates different types of media and notes altogether.

The inbox feature can be a little overwhelming if you are work with Asana just from its project boards and only checking it periodically. It would be great if it auto-cleared once a project/task is marked complete.

Email notifications can get excessive. You have complete control over them but initially, they can be annoying until you set the frequency you want them. It would be better if this was set during the sign-up process.

Notes, discussions, and attachments in subtasks sometimes go unnoticed if working from the main project board.

Would be nice to be able to print task calendars as we keep our content calendar in Asana

Email notifications - For each task, subtask, comment, I receive an email. This is unnecessary when I have the app on my phone.

Software integration with Gmail would be a huge benefit.

For what I use it for, there is nothing I could recommend.

The only complaint we have is making more features available in the bases product. Some of the more popular features are upgrades costing a larger investment.

Quarterly credit card billing would be appreciated.

More training modules (video or PPT) would help the on-boarding of new members greatly. We sometimes have to do a quick WebEx to get new members up to speed.

The new request of projects must be as per order.

The communication mode on online active calling must be added

cost need to be re considered.

Comments can get crazy: a single comment is emailed out to the entire group (that can be 10+ people). And it can be very difficult to go back in a conversation and view what the comment was referencing.

You can only comment on a project and not add another image or document.

The Description and team are always able to view but not always previous work done. For example, in a creative team, I can see the delivery but not the previous copy or design work just that it is complete.

It is good for managing tasks but has limitations if you need to track bugs/issues. For a bug tracking system one would also need some other information fields like Bug ID, Customer, Severity / Priority etc.

Adding custom fields - Not sure whether Asana allows it.

It allows you to attach documents. But it should allow you to put a screenshot in line with the text so that the person reading the description of the task/issue doesn't have to refer to an attachment for small screenshots.

Does not work well as a communication tool -- email and chat functions still used to supplement daily workflow.

Daily calendars are not an option -- meeting invites and availability still fall to other tools.

Workload and portfolio management tools have moved to more expensive tiers and are out of reach for our team.

I wish there were better "template" options. In order to streamline many projects with a similar look and feel, a lot of effort needs to go into creating a style guide for how they should be set up. This isn't critical but can maximize the use of Asana. However, with the granular effort it takes, and leaving room for human error when managing it, your projects can turn disorganized fairly quickly.

There are numerous menus and views but they can get cluttered together. Similar to templates, I wish you could better customize all of the elements of views and what you see in menus.

Technical support is sometimes slow.

Does not allow for customization of funds.

It does not have a very reliable security system.

I lose tasks in the lists.

Email notifications get confusing

Exporting lists.

A more detailed overview.

Profiles for employees.

Can’t prioritize my tasks.

It would be great if the tasks or projects get synchronized with my device's calendar.

Make tasks sharable not just followable.

Allow shared tasks to be manipulated by all users who the task is shared with.

It is necessary to update your service plan, and that costs money if you have a big organization.

price is unfair for few users, also.

Sometimes hard to follow

Easy to add tasks not as easy to delete them

Some confusion when two people are working the same task with updates

Mobile functionality at the time was difficult.

The ability to assign projects based on templates with a start date and the number of required days per task. In this case, Wrike is more capable. For example, if I know Task A needs 3 days to complete before Task B can start, I would like the ability to assign Task A to start on Monday and have Asana automatically assign Task B to start on Thursday when template is being copied. Unfortunately, this is not possible with Asana.

Was a bit difficult to learn at first

Support isn't always that helpful

Inability to merge calendars

Sometime projects get complex to handle

Projects can be marked as complete or re-assigned, but I don't see a way to update instead to say that a small job has been completed by one person and is handing back to the group leader, say.

For example, if someone is tasked with proofreading a document then they can only comment and/or re-assign the task once this is done since the project as a whole shouldn't be marked as complete when there might be finishing touches etc. to add.

Can be a little confusing to switch between personal and team views.

Send little "daily update" emails that aren't particularly useful for me.

Can’t necessarily be used for an approvals process. Anyone can mark a task complete.

Can become messy if a lot of communication is required.