Hello,
The Home tab has a lot of potential but right now it feels like an afterthought. For anyone managing a team, the current setup doesn’t give you the overview you need to stay on top of things. You end up clicking into individual projects and dashboards just to piece together what should be visible the moment you open Asana.
Here’s some additions that would really make a difference.
1. More widget options
The current widget selection is too limited. A good starting point would be a Filter Results widget where users can define their own filters (project, assignee, due date range, custom fields) and pin the results as a live widget on Home. Think of it as a saved Advanced Search query that lives permanently on your homepage. For a team leader, this alone would be a game changer; you could set up a widget showing all tasks due this week across every project your team touches, without navigating anywhere.
Beyond filtering, chart and reporting widgets should also be available on Home. Right now, dashboards and charts exist inside individual projects or portfolios, but there’s no way to surface them on the homepage. Being able to pin a completion rate chart, an overdue task breakdown by team member, or a tasks-created-vs-completed trend line directly on Home would give team leaders the statistical snapshot they need every morning.
2. Adopt the Widget Page Model
Asana already has customizable “widget pages” inside projects with drag-and-drop layouts, resizable cards, and flexible grids. The Home tab should work the same way. Let users build their own homepage using the same mechanics: drag widgets around, resize them, choose from a library of widget types.
3. Multiple Home Views
I’d love the ability to create multiple Home views and switch between them. For example: a “Monday standup” view focused on team workload and overdue items, a “weekly planning” view with upcoming timelines and capacity, and a “client check-in” view with project statuses and milestones. Tabs or a dropdown selector at the top of Home would work fine.
4. Calendar Widget
This one feels obvious. A calendar widget on Home showing tasks, milestones, and due dates across all your projects in a single view directly on Home tab.
5. Team Activity Feed Widget
The current activity-related widgets (“Comments mentioning me,” “Draft comments”) are focused on you as an individual. A Team Activity Feed would show recent actions across your entire team: tasks completed, status changes, new comments, reassignments. It’s essentially the project Activity tab concept, but aggregated across all projects your team is involved in. For a team leader, this is how you keep a pulse on what’s actually moving without checking each project one by one.
6. Pinned Tasks Widget
Not “My Tasks” and not “Tasks I’ve assigned”. A curated watchlist of specific tasks you want to keep an eye on, regardless of who owns them. Maybe it’s a task your designer is stuck on, a client deliverable with a tight deadline, or an R&D item approaching review. The ability to star or pin any task from any project and have it surface in a dedicated Home widget would be incredibly useful for anyone in a leadership or oversight role.
7. Quick Actions Bar
Home is currently read-only in nature; you look at it, then navigate away to actually do anything. A persistent Quick Actions bar with shortcuts to your most-used operations would change that: “Create task in [pinned project],” “Open this week’s timeline,” “Jump to [saved search].” Think of it as a customizable launcher that turns Home from a passive summary into an active starting point for your day.
The theme across all of these is the same: Home should be the place where a team leader can see everything that matters, act on what’s urgent, and plan what’s next, all without clicking into five different views first. The building blocks for most of these features already exist somewhere in Asana; they just need to be made available on the Home tab.
Thank you in advance.