Why You Need Asana

Because classic Project Management is gone.

Disclaimer: You do need a sauna. You also need Asana. Keep reading…

If you’re like me then you know that you need to be incredibly organized and you also have a minimal amount of time to keep yourself (or your job, employees, company) on track. You’ve probably tried all sorts of project management tools. Goodbye to the days of classic project management tools such as Basecamp or TeamworkPM. Hello to a quick solution that works impressively well on your many freelance projects.

Let me sell you on a free software solution that has revolutionized the way I do my job. And no, I do not work for Asana.

Why Asana Rocks:

1. What You See Is (100%) What You Get
2. Get in, get out, get optimized
3. Tags

In the time it takes to read this post, you will be wooed into the Asana way.

What You See Is (100%) What You Get

WYSIWYG editors are nearing Comic Sans for the web developer world. They are difficult to maintain, accuracy in display is lagging, and (in my humble opinion) are not the way content should be styled.

While I will leave content strategy alone for this post, I will focus on getting the most of out of your content. Asana’s method to create tasks is so simple…what you type or create is exactly what you get. Tasks are built simply by typing in a new line and you get your results immediately. No form submissions or page reloads here!

You can now stop thinking about how your task looks and focus more about getting it done knowing that your information will be displayed effectively and succinctly.

Get in, get out, get optimized.

The Asana project view shows you the tasks that your team has built and allows sorting based on priority, date, assignee, and hearts (ya know…appreciation).

Additionally, by simply clicking TAB you are shown the details, tags, subtasks, attachments and comments on your task. Boom. Can’t get any easier, right?

Oh wait. Linking to other tasks (even completed) and users is simple. Just like Twitter, add an @ symbol to integrate other tasks or followers.

Tags

If the previous two sections have not sold you on the incredible versatility of the Asana tool, then prepare to be blown out of the water. Tags are truly the most powerful, recently-integrated tool that Asana offers.

Now, you can create a pre-created list of Tags to associate with tasks. Alternatively, you can build them on the task itself. While this initially does not sound revolutionary, you can make views based on taxonomy.

What this does for me is allows me to tag my various support tickets, projects, or purchasing decisions with tags and display them in specific views.

Sold on this solution?

You should be! Check out their Getting Started video tutorial. Sign up now (free for teams up to 15) at Asana.com.