Why I gave up on Asana after 15 minutes

I have some similar frustrations with Asana. The UX leaves a fair bit to be desired, especially when it comes to organizing bigger stuff into projects, subtasks, and so on. The android app isn't very great.

That said, we use Asana at my (30 employee) org. We have teams, lots of projects, and I've wired their projects into our own intranet stuff and email lists using api integrations. We use tags and projects, have github wired in (commit messages that reference an asana task show up in Asana under that taks), and a nice little Slack integration.

Thing is, if you want the ability to have lots of bigger structures, shared across multiple teams, there is likely to be a hefty startup cost - it isn't a simple thing to do. We previewed a lot of different project management tools, and Asana struck a nice balance between powerful enough and useful out of the box. We end up doing our own onboarding and norming with new employees, but it's worth it ultimately.

I'd love to see examples of other software at a similar price point that has project, subtask, team, comment-thread, and tag features with Asana levels of api integrations available.

Yeah, I tried to use Asana and personaly really disliked it. Mostly because of the cumbersome UI and expectation mismatch of how things should work.

Then, in a ~10people Team we (after lonog debate) used Asana, and after the first days, nobody was using it, because it was horrible.

I can't really put my finger on it. It somehow feels like a Prototype after checking off long feature checklists.

I highly recommend Todoist. Awesome web UI, mobile apps, keyboard shortcuts, and a simple API if you need anything more fancy.

Great post. I felt the same when I tested it!

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I've tried using many different online tools for tracking software projects and work (including Todoist, Trello et al) and eventually settled on Asana.

It's not perfect, but it most closely matches the workflow I need. It's flexible without being overly generic (Trello) yet doesn't impose or constrain your workflow too much as some other tools do.

There certainly are some quirks though, and my biggest peeve is the 'empty task' problem described in the original article. If I could vote for one fix, it would be that!

I've been looking at project management tools for work. I asked on FB what people were using and received multiple recommendations for Trello, a few for Asana and none for Basecamp (which is the one I know best).

I played around with Trello and it's all about cards. My problem is that I want lists, not cards. Haven't used Asana yet. Basecamp seems to be the best fit for my needs (I want to see what has been checked off and create repeatitive processes).

I think that a major driving force behind how slowness of asana is how their API is formatted. In order to load up the my tasks section you need a minimum of 2 requests per 100 tasks that exist in your workspace. And if they don't bump the request limit to 100 then they need 2 requests every 25 tasks.

I gave up on Asana when it started retooling to focus more exclusively on Agile/Scrum stuff. No tool should be allowed to claim to be about improving productivity if it also goes out of its way to support constructs taken from Agile/Scrum.

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