# Allow converting messages into tasks **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Ideas\ **Tags:** messages, tasks\ **Created:** [17 June 2021 09:37 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684 "2021-06-17T09:37:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Victor\_Fremiot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/victor_fremiot/32/14079_2.png) [@Victor\_Fremiot](https://forum.asana.com/u/Victor_Fremiot)\ **Post date:** [8 March 2018 11:13 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/21 "2018-03-08T11:13:42Z")
+1 to all the above. For me, it’s about hosting my team’s stand-up meetings in Asana. 1. automated email from Zapier asking my teammates to add their daily stand-up notes 2. reply to [boardname@mail.asana.com](mailto:boardname@mail.asana.com) so that the notes are automatically added to Asana (conversation tab) 3. when my manager is done reviewing the notes of each member, she can turn the conversation into a task for follow-up actions or archive Is this feature request being looked at or has been added to your roadmap? Thanks a lot! ---
**Author:** ![Jennifer\_Temple](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jennifer_temple/32/16805_2.png) [@Jennifer\_Temple](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jennifer_Temple)\ **Post date:** [9 May 2018 09:31 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/22 "2018-05-09T09:31:43Z")
This would be helpful for me too. How much interest does there need to be before Asana will work on this? ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_PC911\_Miami](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/angel_pc911_miami/32/23031_2.png) [@Angel\_PC911\_Miami](https://forum.asana.com/u/Angel_PC911_Miami)\ **Post date:** [2 October 2018 00:24 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/23 "2018-10-02T00:24:26Z")
yes, would be great. ---
**Author:** ![Shyam\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/shyam_s/32/9093_2.png) [@Shyam\_S](https://forum.asana.com/u/Shyam_S)\ **Post date:** [26 November 2018 03:06 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/24 "2018-11-26T03:06:47Z")
+1. Need this feature! ---
**Author:** ![Vern\_Glaser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/vern_glaser/32/26530_2.png) [@Vern\_Glaser](https://forum.asana.com/u/Vern_Glaser)\ **Post date:** [18 December 2018 18:34 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/25 "2018-12-18T18:34:41Z")
yes, this feature would be really helpful and seems to be a fairly obvious value-add. ---
**Author:** ![Abdullah\_Munawar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/abdullah_munawar/32/32740_2.png) [@Abdullah\_Munawar](https://forum.asana.com/u/Abdullah_Munawar)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2019 13:31 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/26 "2019-04-16T13:31:38Z")
Any idea when this will be made available? ---
**Author:** ![Hanna\_Finlay2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/hanna_finlay2/32/25193_2.png) [@Hanna\_Finlay2](https://forum.asana.com/u/Hanna_Finlay2)\ **Post date:** [28 May 2019 01:26 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/27 "2019-05-28T01:26:53Z")
Yes! This would be fantastic! We’ve only just recently started using Conversations, and already see a need to be able to convert them into tasks - even just to have a task to update our procedures based on a conversation would be super handy, instead of copy/paste ---
**Author:** ![Francisco\_Hillyer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/francisco_hillyer/32/37843_2.png) [@Francisco\_Hillyer](https://forum.asana.com/u/Francisco_Hillyer)\ **Post date:** [23 July 2019 07:06 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/28 "2019-07-23T07:06:52Z")
+1 on this request, we had some team members creating conversations instead of tasks, it would be ideal to switch the conversation into a task, for us to use the task features such as the list, the status, the tags and drag and drop. I noticed you can only add images within the text entry using the image upload, while on a task you can drag and drop into it. Please let us know if this feature can become available. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Abigail\_Sculley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/abigail_sculley/32/45152_2.png) [@Abigail\_Sculley](https://forum.asana.com/u/Abigail_Sculley)\ **Post date:** [25 November 2019 17:33 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/29 "2019-11-25T17:33:37Z")
Has this been made available? Would be a helpful feature. ---
**Author:** ![Aaron\_Collett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/aaron_collett/32/17779_2.png) [@Aaron\_Collett](https://forum.asana.com/u/Aaron_Collett)\ **Post date:** [6 January 2020 01:05 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/30 "2020-01-06T01:05:53Z")
Agree, this would be a great feature for all the reasons mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![OT160](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@OT160](https://forum.asana.com/u/OT160)\ **Post date:** [16 March 2020 18:53 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/31 "2020-03-16T18:53:26Z")
Just trying to come into Asana after using a myriad of other tools, including Asana itself about 2 years ago. Reasons for return: Some great UX stuff like Convos, which have the nice benefit of allowing a title in addition to the comment. Great way to replace noise of Slack, and provides a great feature of an alternative tool my team has been using called [Twist.com](http://Twist.com), but unfortunately Twist is very thin in features, including integrations, so we’re kind of on an island using it. This ability to title a conversation is really huge! And it would be fantastic to convert not only to a task, but a project. Another differentiator for me with Asana is the “Task to Project” feature - the fact that you can 1) do it in the first place, few other tools offer this (Just look at Wrike’s failure here with the popularity of the request, and lack of action on their Product Team’s part: [https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000310005--Status-Backburner-Convert-a-Task-into-a-Project](https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000310005--Status-Backburner-Convert-a-Task-into-a-Project)), and 2) the great traceability afforded when the project picks up a nice reciprocal link to the task that was converted. Huge for Idea promotion. Conversations are a great source of ideas, too, so simply applying what you guys already have done with tasks to projects here, both with converting to a task, or a project - I think you could use the same solution but offer both - would be huge for my use of Asana, and I’m sure many, many others! Thanks guys for listening and truly hope to see this implemented soon! ---
**Author:** ![Christopher\_Yi](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Christopher\_Yi](https://forum.asana.com/u/Christopher_Yi)\ **Post date:** [23 April 2020 18:20 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/32 "2020-04-23T18:20:06Z")
Would be super cool! Maybe something like the @ feature, to demarcate tasks to be extracted from the conversation So just as a clarifying example - surrounding a phrase with some marking (# or whatever) automatically creates a task, with some other syntax to set additional parameters, like #@Chris: please get an answer on that by 4/24# creates the task, assigns it to Chris, sets a due date of 4/24 ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Levy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jeremy_levy/32/14435_2.png) [@Jeremy\_Levy](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jeremy_Levy)\ **Post date:** [14 May 2020 03:59 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/33 "2020-05-14T03:59:53Z")
Wow…just looking at the thread. Three years and no movement on this. I wonder why? [x+project\_name@mail.asana.com](mailto:x+project_name@mail.asana.com) maps to conversations, while [x+nnnnnnnnnnn@mail.asana.com](mailto:x+nnnnnnnnnnn@mail.asana.com) maps to tasks. I wish there were another flag where we could avoid using the number (which NO ONE remembers). For example, [c+project\_name@mail.asana.com](mailto:c+project_name@mail.asana.com) could map to conversations, while [t+project\_name@mail.asana.com](mailto:t+project_name@mail.asana.com) could map to tasks. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Sutasurya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/david_sutasurya/32/22864_2.png) [@David\_Sutasurya](https://forum.asana.com/u/David_Sutasurya)\ **Post date:** [27 June 2020 09:27 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/34 "2020-06-27T09:27:06Z")
We need more votes for this feature 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Iman\_Saleh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/iman_saleh/32/188799_2.png) [@Iman\_Saleh](https://forum.asana.com/u/Iman_Saleh)\ **Post date:** [17 August 2023 15:38 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/35 "2023-08-17T15:38:24Z")
Hello, what’s the latest on this feature as it is something our team really wants to be able to do. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa\_Crowley](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Lisa\_Crowley](https://forum.asana.com/u/Lisa_Crowley)\ **Post date:** [25 February 2025 18:53 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/36 "2025-02-25T18:53:25Z")
This would be very useful. We like the Messages as it sends a notification, but we can’t turn that info into Tasks. Notes does allow Task creation, but does not notify those on the project. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Kreiss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/daniel_kreiss/32/15403_2.png) [@Daniel\_Kreiss](https://forum.asana.com/u/Daniel_Kreiss)\ **Post date:** [28 May 2025 17:26 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/37 "2025-05-28T17:26:52Z")
This could also offer a solution (or workaround at least) for my related issue, where messages tend to disappear into empty space if they are not added to a project or team from the outset: [Option to add Messages to projects after created - #3 by Daniel\_Kreiss](https://forum.asana.com/t/option-to-add-messages-to-projects-after-created/107659/3) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Tanner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bryan_tanner/32/267400_2.png) [@Bryan\_Tanner](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bryan_Tanner)\ **Post date:** [4 June 2025 13:53 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684/38 "2025-06-04T13:53:41Z")
Upvote. This would be very beneficial, I run into this same concern a lot. [Previous page](https://forum.asana.com/t/allow-converting-messages-into-tasks/125684.md?page=1)