Is there a way to quickly attach an Outlook email to an Asana task?
Previous threads directed to the Outlook plug-in but I find that this only “copy-pastes” the text content from the email thread into a comment. This is quite unwieldy for long message threads so uploading the email as a file attachment is preferred.
I was pretty sure the Outlook plugin was attaching the entire email 
@Phil_Seeman you are a Microsoft guy, any thoughts?
No, the Asana Outlook add-in doesn’t attach the email. I think the best thing one can do currently is drag and drop the email from the Outlook email list onto the task in Asana. But:
- That’s awkward because you have to go to the task in Asana which kind of defeats the purpose of having the add-in in Outlook
- Once in Asana, you can’t view the email directly; you have to download it and then open the downloaded .msg file
Here’s a request for this feature you can upvote:
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Awkward indeed. But thanks for letting me know, I’ve added my vote.
Agreed (& voted).
Does anyone know if there is already a thread we can vote on to add a “save as attachment” option within the outlook add in?
I recently switched over to “New Outlook” from the standard app, which behaves more like Webmail. I can’t seem now to drag an email into an Asana task like I could on the original app version. Has anyone else encountered this? Any fixes/tips?
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I have this issue too. Did you ever find a way to get around it or fix it? It’s driving me crazy!
“New Outlook” is unfortunately a regression from classic Outlook in many, many ways. This is one of them; it does not support drag and drop of emails to other applications, so there’s nothing Asana can do about it on their end.
As Microsoft adds more features to the new Outlook and begins to phase out classic Outlook, it may become harder to switch back. Hope it’s ok to promote this, but I made a tool that solves this problem (https://magicdragin.app), hope it’s helpful for those cases!