How to deselect a “task highlighted in blue” in My Tasks

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On Windows in the My Tasks view, the UI has recently (relatively) been updated to allow for re-ordering of tasks, but also it allows to move tasks into other tasks to create sub-tasks.

This UI change can cause problems when trying to easily just re-order tasks and accidentally place them inside of other tasks. I’d like to request a UI option to turn off dragging and dropping tasks into other tasks.

Also, now when I drag tasks to re-order them, once I finalize the position of a task in the list, it turns blue, and there is no way to de-select it and get the blue highlight to disappear. The only method is to select some other view and then come back to it.

I have tried searching Google for a solution, and it suggests the Esc key or clicking in the empty space between tasks / sections - which do not work.

Also, the additional vertical icon bar on the left side of the main Asana window simply clutters it up, and this should be able to be hidden or removed as well.

I think Asana was much better about 2 years ago, lately it has started to become bloatware.

The recent downtime of about 30-60 minutes also showed that there is a fatal flaw that there is no local cache. All of my tasks and to-do items for my work were suddenly unavailable, and that is not acceptable.

Anyone who may have a solution for the above issue to deselect a task that has become highlighted in blue (background color stripe across the entire row), please let me know.

Thanks for reading!

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Welcome, @Joe_Dugandzic,

If the task detail pane is open, hover over the highlighted task’s text in the list pane, hold down the Ctrl key and left-click.

But if the task detail pane is closed, you’ll need to do the above twice: Ctrl+Click, then Ctrl+Click again.

I’m on Mac and confirmed that works (substituting Cmd for Ctrl) and unless there’s a bug it should work as above on Windows.

Re the other things you mention, please keep those in individual posts. You can see in Asana Community > Product Ideas and possibly find related requests already there where you can see related info and add your vote by clicking the Vote button at the top