Same for me, Kyle.
I guess you need to expand the hidden comments.
How do you do that?
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comments in tasks/conversations are collapsed and you have to expand them by clicking on the blue link called (More Comments), the link appears on the top of most recent comments.
Asana search should bring text in tasks & conversations, also keep in mind that Asana search engine only deals with the given word as Match Case, E.g. you mistakenly typed widge instead of widget, in such case asana will not return any results unless you typed widge by mistake in a task or conversation. This is really not a solution and asana should fix their search/indexing/ocr to be in competition with slack search or at least as Basecamp etc..
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I 100% agree with this. It would be saving me SO much time if comments were indexed + searchable.
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Very limiting to not have searchable comments. people asking for this since 2017… come on Asana… you guys are constantly releasing new features… where’s this on the backlog list?
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Yes, it is quite crazy to not be able to search in comments for a project/task. Now back to looking for that needle in the haystack!
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Just googled if Asana had this feature but apparently (still) not.
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Wow - this has been open since 2017. That doesn’t give me much hope. I’m using Asana to track meeting notes but never imagined those notes would not be searchable until I needed to search them. Not sure if I can dump all of my data or not → that’s next up assuming Asana is not going to add this feature soon.
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Discovery! If you right click on the three dots above the task list on a project you can select “Search this Project.” That search searches the comments for the project. An extra step, but maybe this helps someone out here.
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My team and I use Asana as our primary point of contact with all the work that we do together. The fear that we all have however is that we are going to lose something in the abyss of the subtasks or an orphaned task that contained important work/information about something we were working on. This fear originates from the fact that the search features on Asana are sub-optimal when it comes to looking for a task or something that was mentioned in the description of a task but you can’t quite recall the name of the task it is located in. If we could simply search asana for the keywords to the task or the information in the description of a task that we’re all looking for then our lives would be x1000 better and we would spend less time looking for information that we’ve lost due to the failures of human memory.
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Oh and I forgot to mention that if these task descriptions are made searchable can we get some sort of search preview so that I know what the search engine has found that matches my search rather than a list of tasks that I have to click into.
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Thanks for the feedback @Jake_Adams. We have an existing #productfeedback thread on this topic, so I’m merging your post with this existing thread to consolidate all feedback on this topic. I’ll keep you posted here once I have some update!
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we will at times copy what is in the description field and paste it in a comment because comments are searchable. Makes no sense why the description field isn’t searchable. completely blows my mind how that could have been left out
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Voting for this feature too. It’s hard to fit the keywords in the task description just to make that keyword searchable.
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The search is and has been working on comments for a long time now, @Marie can you confirm? you can’t search only on comments though.
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search certainly doesn’t find anything in comments, it’s a pain
It definitely does. I just tried again and found a task based on a piece of comment I pasted in the search.
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I can confirm too that it works
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Agree, our team is currently evaluating the use of Asana for our team meetings and having the ability to search by a key word from the task description was one of the features it lacks compare to Google Docs that we used to use.
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