# Empty tasks are now automatically removed **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask the Community\ **Created:** [19 December 2018 10:14 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784 "2018-12-19T10:14:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bastien\_Siebman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bastien_siebman/32/172354_2.png) [@Bastien\_Siebman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bastien_Siebman)\ **Post date:** [19 December 2018 10:14 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/1 "2018-12-19T10:14:16Z")
Oh no, please, don’t tell me you now auto-delete an empty task? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Marie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/marie/32/42208_2.png) [@Marie](https://forum.asana.com/u/Marie)\ **Post date:** [19 December 2018 10:29 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/2 "2018-12-19T10:29:49Z")
Hi @Bastien_Siebman, We are! Many users have reported that they create tasks by accident, making their Asana “messy”; so we’re implementing an auto-delete feature for empty tasks. As it stands, we only rolled it out to 25% of our users. If it all goes well, it should be rolled out to 100% users by the end of the week. Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bastien\_Siebman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bastien_siebman/32/172354_2.png) [@Bastien\_Siebman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bastien_Siebman)\ **Post date:** [19 December 2018 10:35 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/3 "2018-12-19T10:35:01Z")
This was helping me have a clean Asana by creating some “blank space” in my lists ☹ anyway, ok, good for the others ^^ ---
**Author:** ![Millor\_Machado](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/millor_machado/32/14355_2.png) [@Millor\_Machado](https://forum.asana.com/u/Millor_Machado)\ **Post date:** [19 December 2018 11:05 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/4 "2018-12-19T11:05:04Z")
I like that. Lots of my clients are used to press “Enter” when adding a task, creating a blank one. @Bastien_Siebman, it’s not the same, but maybe you could create “cleaning tasks” with . or - Maybe if you press space and let a blank character can work as well. ---
**Author:** ![KarenV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/karenv/32/60884_2.png) [@KarenV](https://forum.asana.com/u/KarenV)\ **Post date:** [6 January 2019 18:57 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/5 "2019-01-06T18:57:44Z")
Hi @Marie - just following up on this - when do you think this feature will be rolled out to all users because we don’t have it yet. And @Bastien_Siebman I understand where you’re coming from - I tend not to like “auto” anything and always prefer to have the choice (and the way you were using empty tasks shows why!) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\ **Post date:** [6 January 2019 23:20 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/6 "2019-01-06T23:20:32Z")
@KarenV, @Millor_Machado, @Bastien_Siebman, I can confirm that a task with just a single space did not get removed by the new auto-delete-empty-tasks feature. That was a few days ago when the new feature was deleting empty tasks for me; I just tried now and maybe they turned that off for a bit because no cleanup is happening at all now. But again, when empty tasks where cleaned up, single-blank-character tasks were not affected, which is nice. ---
**Author:** ![Bastien\_Siebman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/bastien_siebman/32/172354_2.png) [@Bastien\_Siebman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Bastien_Siebman)\ **Post date:** [7 January 2019 05:44 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/7 "2019-01-07T05:44:37Z")
I kinda use “—” now, which is ok. ---
**Author:** ![KarenV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/karenv/32/60884_2.png) [@KarenV](https://forum.asana.com/u/KarenV)\ **Post date:** [6 January 2019 02:27 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/8 "2019-01-06T02:27:03Z")
Hi - I don’t know if it’s us, or if this happens to everyone, but we always have lots “empty” tasks that were created by mistake by pressing enter. Is there a way to hide these from reports because they clutter them up. And also, is there a way to run a report to find all these empty tasks so they can be quickly deleted? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\ **Post date:** [6 January 2019 02:40 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/9 "2019-01-06T02:40:13Z")
This is on the way! See: > [@Empty tasks are now automatically removed](https://forum.asana.com/t/auto-remove-empty-tasks/37784/2): > > Hi @Bastien_Siebman, We are! Many users have reported that they create tasks by accident, making their Asana “messy”; so we’re implementing an auto-delete feature for empty tasks. As it stands, we only rolled it out to 25% of our users. If it all goes well, it should be rolled out to 100% users by the end of the week. Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions slight_smile ---
**Author:** ![KarenV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/karenv/32/60884_2.png) [@KarenV](https://forum.asana.com/u/KarenV)\ **Post date:** [6 January 2019 03:49 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/10 "2019-01-06T03:49:08Z")
Thanks @Larry_Berger_lpb! So glad to see that. ---
**Author:** ![Marie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/marie/32/42208_2.png) [@Marie](https://forum.asana.com/u/Marie)\ **Post date:** [7 January 2019 08:49 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/11 "2019-01-07T08:49:47Z")
Thanks for jumping in @Larry_Berger_lpb; merging this one with [Empty tasks are now automatically removed - #2 by Marie](https://forum.asana.com/t/auto-remove-empty-tasks/37784/2) to avoid duplicates! ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Bates](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Philip\_Bates](https://forum.asana.com/u/Philip_Bates)\ **Post date:** [15 January 2019 13:51 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/12 "2019-01-15T13:51:47Z")
Thanks guys, really appreciate this feature - looking forward to it rolling out to me. ---
**Author:** ![SDMedia\_I](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/sdmedia_i/32/28015_2.png) [@SDMedia\_I](https://forum.asana.com/u/SDMedia_I)\ **Post date:** [22 January 2019 02:30 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/13 "2019-01-22T02:30:05Z")
Oh man. I didn’t guess that this was a ‘feature’. Please please please make this something I can toggle off. My projects structures spacing indicates grouping of lists beyond all the other ways to group lists. I have hundreds of blank tasks throughout my projects that communicate important context to the tasks in those projects. Beyond that, if ‘messy’ projects are the problem I’m sure a lot of users will agree that some projects are REAL eyesore without spaces - I’ve wished for years that you’d do essentially the opposite and build in letting me make spaces that _aren’t_ tasks (do nothing when i click on them, have no completion button). TL;DR: Please allow me to shut this _feature_ off. Please! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SDMedia\_I](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/sdmedia_i/32/28015_2.png) [@SDMedia\_I](https://forum.asana.com/u/SDMedia_I)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2019 18:01 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/14 "2019-01-21T18:01:19Z")
Briefly describe (1-2 sentences) the Bug you’re experiencing: Steps to reproduce: When I hit enter to create a new task, if I add no text to the task, it disappears when i navigate away from it. I use empty tasks as spacers, so worse still, whenever I click on an empty task I created before this problem it too disappears when I navigate away. Why is Asana suddenly eating all my spacer-tasks? Browser version: This problem happens in all my browsers, on all my computers, for only this particular Asana User - the other users in the workspace report nothing of the kind. Upload screenshots below: I’m sure you get the picture without a video here. ---
**Author:** ![Katie\_Reynolds](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/katie_reynolds/32/30077_2.png) [@Katie\_Reynolds](https://forum.asana.com/u/Katie_Reynolds)\ **Post date:** [22 January 2019 01:13 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/15 "2019-01-22T01:13:38Z")
Hello and welcome to the forum. I believe that Asana is the in the process of rolling out an auto-remove feature that will clean up empty tasks. Here is a link with some more information: [Auto-remove empty tasks?](https://forum.asana.com/t/auto-remove-empty-tasks/37784). This feature might have been rolled out to your account. I hope that helps, Katie ---
**Author:** ![Marie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/marie/32/42208_2.png) [@Marie](https://forum.asana.com/u/Marie)\ **Post date:** [22 January 2019 11:32 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/16 "2019-01-22T11:32:35Z")
Hi @SDMedia_I and thanks for jumping in @Katie_Reynolds! I’ve gone ahead and merged this post with the main thread to avoid creating duplicates in the Forum. Please let me know if there is anything else I can help with! ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Thiessen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/mike_thiessen/32/28016_2.png) [@Mike\_Thiessen](https://forum.asana.com/u/Mike_Thiessen)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2019 18:03 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/17 "2019-01-21T18:03:36Z")
Recently, Iv’e noticed that i can no longer create a section within my tasks. I’m hoping it’s a bug. Ive read a post about there being some other issues with the site, hopefully this will be resolved when those bugs are fixed? Browser: Safari - Version 12.0.2 (14606.3.4) Any info on this bug would be greatly appreciated. ![27%20PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/7/6/76f9d2fef490b497a9857ffc2eb327f3f14b95ee.png) ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Thiessen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/mike_thiessen/32/28016_2.png) [@Mike\_Thiessen](https://forum.asana.com/u/Mike_Thiessen)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2019 18:11 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/18 "2019-01-21T18:11:18Z")
I just read that pressing Tab - N creates a section. ---
**Author:** ![Katie\_Reynolds](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/katie_reynolds/32/30077_2.png) [@Katie\_Reynolds](https://forum.asana.com/u/Katie_Reynolds)\ **Post date:** [22 January 2019 01:12 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/19 "2019-01-22T01:12:00Z")
Mike, You are correct 🙂 The new shortcut to create sections is Tab + N. Here is the full description of how sections are changing in Asana: [Sections are dead! Long live sections!](https://forum.asana.com/t/sections-are-dead-long-live-sections/33951). Katie ---
**Author:** ![SDMedia\_I](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/sdmedia_i/32/28015_2.png) [@SDMedia\_I](https://forum.asana.com/u/SDMedia_I)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2019 19:09 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784/20 "2019-01-21T19:09:48Z")
Briefly describe (1-2 sentences) the Bug you’re experiencing: When I hit enter to create a new task, if I do not add text to the task it disappears when i navigate away from it (I use empty tasks as spacers). Whenever I click on an empty task (that I created before this problem) it too disappears when I navigate away. Steps to reproduce: I think I may have accidentally punched in a hotkey? What setting did I toggle on?? Browser version: This problem happens in all my browsers, on all my computers, for only this particular Asana User - the other users in the workspace report nothing of the kind. Upload screenshots below: [Next page](https://forum.asana.com/t/empty-tasks-are-now-automatically-removed/37784.md?page=2)