Ability to create and assign tasks from Google Docs by highlighting text

A lot of teams use Google Docs for weekly standups or meetings and have an “Action Items” section with a list of next steps. Would love the option to highlight text within the Google Doc and seamlessly create an Asana task and assign it to the right person.

The Chrome extension only creates a task with the Google doc’s title as a task which is not helpful for this use case and makes creating a task from Google Docs very manual.

The 2017 forum thread that had over 100 comments and +1’s was unfortunately closed/locked without full resolution so I’m reopening it here. They claim that the extension allows people to “seamlessly create tasks from any webpage” but without the highlighting functionality, it is not seamless.

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Hi @Vivian_Phang,

I take it you meant this as a feature request, so I took the liberty to move from Tips and Tricks to Product Feedback

This means you can now vote for this feedback to be implemented, like I have. :slight_smile:

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Thank you for doing that!!

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