Overall Satisfaction with Asana
We use Asana to manage both personal and group projects across many different ministries in our church. We have groups, assignments, dates, and more for projects that range from long term to quick to-dos. Its best feature is how easy it is to assign and track projects to people to keep them accountable for the work they're doing.
- Time management is fantastic. I can set multiple dates within a single larger project by using subtasks. That allows me to set overall goals as well as reminders for the smaller parts of jobs.
- Assigning projects to team members, and myself, is a breeze. It's easy to identify at a glance who is responsible for what task in any given project.
- Having a personal to-do list is also helpful. It keeps track of all of the projects you're assigned in one place.
- Asana's inbox feed is great for keeping track of conversations you have on projects, reminders for due items, and anywhere you've been tagged or added to any project.
- The cost for Professional is more expensive than our non-profit/church can afford. If there were either lower-cost options, or better pricing for churches, we would love the additional features Asana offers
- The notifications aren't great. It overwhelmingly sends too many emails, so much so that I had to turn off notifications completely, and just rely on the internal Asana inbox.
- There absolutely needs to be a desktop app. The mobile app is great, but not having one on my Mac makes using it cumbersome when it shouldn't be.
- Asana has been wonderful about keeping our teams on track for long term projects, preventing us from wasting hours looking for what we have forgotten about. I would estimate that 1/4 to 1/2 the hours per project have been cut by tracking and focusing on subtasks for each large project.
- Thanks to project tracking and task lists in Asana, we're able to operate with a smaller, more focused staff.
- Unfortunately, some of Asana's more desirable features are locked behind their paid service, which we cannot afford.
- Trello and Wunderlist
We tried Trello, Wunderlist, and Producteev, but at the time, none of them had the feature set that Asana offers. The main requirement we had was the ability to create projects and subtasks with individual due dates and assignments. Asana was the only one that allowed us to assign each individual task to anyone within the group...all for free!