Hi @Tomislav_Capan , in case you’re not already aware, Project Templates now support saved view tabs.
I noticed that, thank you
So you could have a ‘blank generic’ template with your preferred default sort (or anything else you require) and use that everytime you want to create a new ‘blank’ project.
I did ask the helpful AI assistant, but it told me it’s not possible to have defaults across all projects. I assumed it has digested all the Asana documentation, and knows what it’s talking about; that is why I raised this topic.
I’d be against a default list sorting “across projects” as well as a “user-level default” because:
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Different lists have different context, and require different sorting (if not a fully manual one).
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You’d lose the benefit of being able to have multiple list views with different sortings.
There are supposed to be layers of configuration - user-level default (or across-all-projects default) would be the initial sorting setting for a particular view (so, lists different than board, different than…), but then it can be overriden like it is currently. The only difference is that currently I can override the system default, in my proposal I’d be overriding my user default.
The thing is that, for the most part, if I wish to have all my tasks in a list view sorted by due date DESC, and if I had that as my user default, I wouldn’t need to override anything, if there was a user default setting available. With the current system, I’d need to apply my preferred settings over and over per each project and view. UX-wise, the current setup requires way more work from my side per each project separately.
I’d assume that users would set their preferred view for what works for them across majority, if not all, projects, therefore there would be less need for views customizations later. Such a setup also respects the fact that different users have different preferences, unlike the current implementation which pushes all the same defaults to all users.
