✅ 5 tips for effectively managing your My Tasks in Asana

[Cliona_Dowling]

Happy December all ! Cliona here from the Customer Education team at Asana.

Check out this video for Day 16 of the Community Advent Calendar on 5 tips for effectively managing your My Tasks in Asana:

Additional Resources:

Personal Productivity in Asana (Live Training)

Tip 1: Use your My Tasks as your single source of truth
Maximize your productivity with Asana My Tasks (Help Center Article)

Tip 2: Use Group By for easy organisation of your tasks
Tip 3: If you want to up your game, use Custom Sections to organise your work
My Tasks - Everything you need to know (Help Center article)

Tip 4: Use Rules to move your work forward and connect with other tools
Rules (Help Center article)
Rules in Asana: Examples & Best Practices (Video)

Tip 5: Research Productivity Methodologies to gain insight into what method for managing your tasks works best for you
The Eisenhower Matrix: How to prioritize your to-do list (Blog Post)
Why you should eat the frog first (Blog Post)
Master Getting Things Done (GTD) Method in 5 Steps (Blog Post)

Let me know below if you have any other tips for managing your My Tasks in Asana!

[lpb]

Great overview video and a strong set of tips and links to get a handle on My Tasks.

One more link I’d like to add, which really cuts across your Tips 1-4, and maybe some of 5, is my recommended approach to quickly coming up to speed with your My Tasks, including Rules and Custom Sections:

Your Simple (or Advanced) Strategy for Asana’s My Tasks

I’ve just published the article linked above to Medium (free access). I hope both existing Asana users grappling with My Tasks version 2 (currently being deployed), as well as new users to Asana, will check it out because it was written with all of you in mind. This comprehensive article on My Tasks: Outlines a simple but highly functional My Tasks setup with brief, step-by-step setup and use instructions, Explores an advanced My Tasks approach–the one I actually use–that I feel is unique …

Thanks,

Larry

[Arthur_BEGOU]

Very useful, even for experts

[AJ_Snyder]

No transcript or closed captions?

[Vanessa_N]

Hi @AJ_Snyder, sorry for the delay! We’ve updated the video to include closed captions. Additionally, we’ve shared your feedback with the team to ensure all future videos will have closed captions as well. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!