Goblin Tools offers innovative, AI-assisted features that can significantly benefit Asana users with powerful always-free features (and paid options too).
Two key tools are Magic ToDo and Compiler.
Magic ToDo (“Breaking things down so you don’t”)
Magic ToDo automatically breaks down tasks into smaller, manageable steps, which themselves can be further broken down. Note the nice, actionable verb-noun structure to the generated step names.
Add a new item like this:
… then see this generated result after breakdown:
The Spiciness Level lets you adjust how granular to make the substeps list:
You can paste the resulting list into an Asana project or My Tasks in several ways:
- In a list view to generate separate top-level tasks,
- In a task detail pane to generate separate subtasks, or
- In a description or comment to generate a bulleted list
Compiler (“Compile my braindump into a list of tasks”)
Compiler distills your (disorganized) notes, thoughts, brainstorming, etc. into a list of actionable tasks:
Type or dictate your brain dump:
After turning into tasks (click “Turn into tasks” repeatedly if you don’t like the first results):
Conclusion
For those without access to Asana AI, which offers similar features but only in specific places, or those looking for a more flexible use of this kind of tool, these two Goblin Tools offer quick and simple helpers. Speed up your work in enumerating tasks and specifying tasks and subtasks at the proper level of granularity for the project or task at hand. Useful for GTD (“Getting Things Done”) proponents and others looking to create manageable “next actions.”
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