Coming soon: Asana redesign to help you find what you need quickly and easily

[Maarten_de_Vries]

Great, looking forward to testing this!!

[lpb]

All you ever wanted to know about this redesign and related info (thanks to @Richard_Sather):

Ultimate Guide to the new Sidebar design - Get your team prepared!

As you may have already heard, the sidebar is getting a makeover to make it easier to navigate Asana . Some of you may have already signed up for the early release and tested it like myself, until this redesign rolls out to everyone soon! There are numerous questions being raised in the forum and some anxiety about getting prepared for this awesome redesign. Below is everything you need to know so that you and your teams can be prepared and what changes to expect so that you can make the most …

Larry

[Crystal_Alifanow]

When does this roll out to business plan users?

[lpb]

@Crystal_Alifanow,

Best answer so far is here:

Coming soon: Asana redesign to help you find what you need quickly and easily

Hi Asana community Over the years, we’ve heard that Asana can feel cluttered and difficult to navigate, especially as you add more work. With the extra volatility and challenges we’ve all been experiencing lately, we wanted to make at least Asana painless to navigate. We are excited to introduce an Asana redesign to help you find what you need quickly and easily, in your way. Here’s what you can expect to see: Access your most important work with our new sidebar. You can reorder pro…

(And better to only post a question once; thanks.)

Larry

[Chris_Gracia]

Does this allow your own sections/folders on the sidebar or just reorganizing and searching within current sections?

[Zev_Belsky]

Hi please add a shortcut to the inbox on the top bar. thank you

[lpb]

Welcome, @Zev_Belsky,

In case it helps and you weren’t aware, you can type Tab+I (for Inbox) from anywhere in Asana and get to the Inbox. Also, you can type “in” in the Search box and click the menu item for Inbox that appears.

Hope that helps,

Larry

[Zev_Belsky]

Hi Larry. Thanks for the tip, I knew about the search. I did not know about Tab+I which is a much better way to go.

[Phil_Seeman]

@Chris_Gracia

Does this allow your own sections/folders on the sidebar

No, it’s a reorganization of existing elements.

[Frans_Stekelenburg1]

When is this going be available?

And is this update automatic, or does account/site admin needs to enable/approve?

[lpb]

@Frans_Stekelenburg1,

The update will be automatic but the exact date is not yet known and depends how the rollout proceeds…but “soon!”

Thanks,

Larry

[Laura28]

I used to be able to see tasks completed within a certain timeframe, like Yesterday or Last Week. Now when I sort by Completion status, that option is no longer there. Is there a way to do this?? ‘Due date’ doesn’t work, because some of the compeleted tasks don’t have due dates.

[lpb]

Welcome, @Laura28,

The user interface changed recently and now there’s this:

Is that what you’re looking for?

Thanks,

Larry

[Laura28]

Hmm… That’s not a view I have, unfortunately.

[Richard_Sather]

Hi @Laura28, judging from your screenshot, it looks like you are in Board view. Unfortunately, you can only use the filters in @lpb 's screenshot above, in the List view.

This discrepancy between varying filter options between List & Board views has also been reported here: Coming soon: multi-sort, multi-filter and reverse sort on List and Board views! - #43 by Rotem_Yarkoni

[lpb]

Thanks, @Richard_Sather, for looking much more closely than I did! (I deleted my most misleading post.)

Larry

[Pablo_Santana]

Good improvements. Thanks!

[Tim_Clear]

Looks great, love the simplification. Slightly ironic request then - will the sidebar still be limited to 22 characters or can adjust the sidebar to be wider?

[Richard_Sather]

Hi @Tim_Clear , welcome to the forum

Yes, you will be able to adjust the sidebar
Have a look at my post here and the below guide for all the things to expect:
Ultimate Guide to the new Sidebar redesign: Get your team prepared!

[Tim_Clear]

Ahhh, superb! Such a small thing but also a big thing. Thanks for the link, as I’m new to the forum