Hi @Brooke_Behar ,
Yes, you’ve discovered this behavior/limitation of Asana. Here is a thread all about it - be sure to upvote it to register your desire to see it changed:
I was excited to use the new Templates function, but see that it goes ahead and creates a task for the Task Owner in My Tasks before it is turned into a project and clutters up their Task list. Is there any way to have task owners assigned in the template without it moving to My Tasks until you create a project? When I deleted the template all of the tasks remained for my team and it took and hour to clean up. It is just easier for me to copy a project at the time we start our process if this is…
At the moment, the main suggested way to deal with these tasks is given here:
I have one more solution. We do it in our team. Move all the tasks to the ‘Later’ section of ‘My Tasks’. All these tasks are then automatically grouped by project and is collapsible. This gives you an option to somehow hide the tasks from a template project but still know that they exist and in case you need to reassign them to someone else, you know where to find it.
FYI my Flowsana integration also provides a solution .