Generative AI Summary of Task Activity for the Day/Week?

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Is there a way to generate a summary of all tasks I’ve either been assigned, or updated/commented, or completed for the day or week?

I’m looking to generate a daily summary of my activity and would love it if I could have the AI generative summaries provide an update on all the work completed or moved forward in Asana.

Thanks in advance!

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Thanks,

Larry

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Thanks, Larry.

I’m guessing that means this is not possible. Best I could think of was generating a summary overview of a project where all these tasks live, but that doesn’t really accomplish what I want - just gives an update on what’s happening in the project.

I’m wondering if I can leverage OpenAI and Zapier connection to generate a summary, I’d just need to figure out how to get the task data fed into it.

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Note: Not a solution but marked as such to elevate a key reply

It’s not possible natively, but I think it wouldn’t be hard to cobble something together.

If you created maybe two or three saved advanced search reports (I think you’d need several to capture all the things you asked for), and for each did Search actions menu > Export > Sync to GSheets, then made one master sheet that was the union of all of them, you could feed that into an LLM to generate your summary.

At least that’s my half-baked starting thought!

Thanks,

Larry

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Yeah, I spent some time playing around last night in Zapier.

I think I can have Zapier create new entries in a Google sheet was the following occurs:

  • Task I am assigned is marked complete
  • I create a task (or task is assigned to me)
  • I comment on a task - regardless of ownership

I can pull through task name, completed date, modified date, task description and the comment in the third scenario above.

What gets more difficult is sometimes I have multiple comments going on or the context of what is being discussed is in back-and-forth comments (and not just in the task name or description.) I’m not sure how I’d instruct the AI to get some context there.

I could just start with tasks created or closed for the day, that’d be simpliest, but some of my tasks are longer milestones and I’m providing updates on them via comments. I’d love to be able to pull those into the fold and then instruct ChatGPT to spit out a summary in a format like this:

Tasks Completed Today

  • Task Name
  • Most Recent Comment (if possible)

Tasks Created Today

  • Task Name
  • Task Description

Milestones Updated Today

  • Most recent comment by me

I’m just not sure it’s possible to easily achieve the above and I feel like Asana will (eventually) figure out a way to generate summaries for the day/week across all projects for specific users, it’s just not there yet. The project summaries are a start, but just not complete enough as I’m working on tasks across a variety of projects.

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Good thoughts! And I was thinking the same thing you mentioned too–if you wait a bit, perhaps Asana AI will have you covered!