# Learn how to manage your 'My Tasks' like a boss, featuring Asana CSM Terri Burden! **URL:** \ **Category:** Asana-Hosted Events\ **Tags:** my-tasks, time-tracking, tasks\ **Created:** [23 June 2020 17:35 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057 "2020-06-23T17:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_A](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/michael_a/32/113866_2.png) [@Michael\_A](https://forum.asana.com/u/Michael_A)\ **Post date:** [23 June 2020 17:35 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/1 "2020-06-23T17:35:42Z")
Hey everyone 👋 I wanted to share a recording of an incredibly useful workshop, hosted by Asana’s internal CSM @Terri_Burden, which features Asanas spanning our engineering, UX and customer success teams, who share some of their best practices! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2H3FXz-c8w) Did you already know some of their tips? Did they forget to share a tip that’s been extra helpful for you? Let us know, we’d love to know what’s worked for you đŸ“„ ---
**Author:** ![Brenda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/brenda/32/62841_2.png) [@Brenda](https://forum.asana.com/u/Brenda)\ **Post date:** [25 June 2020 15:01 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/2 "2020-06-25T15:01:54Z")
is Greg’s My Task list blocked out or is it just my view? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_A](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/michael_a/32/113866_2.png) [@Michael\_A](https://forum.asana.com/u/Michael_A)\ **Post date:** [25 June 2020 20:59 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/3 "2020-06-25T20:59:34Z")
Hi @Brenda, You’re right it is blocked out
 We chose to do this to protect private information to enable us to share this recording for internal Asana’s to be shared externally. You can still get the best practices tips he was speaking to in the audio of that video, you just cant see it. We know that future webinars (originally intended for internal) Asanas can be valuable resources for you all, so we’ve made note of internal process checklists (keeping this in mind). ---
**Author:** ![LEGGO](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/leggo/32/94022_2.png) [@LEGGO](https://forum.asana.com/u/LEGGO)\ **Post date:** [29 June 2020 15:55 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/4 "2020-06-29T15:55:25Z")
I haven’t watched yet but seeing the lineup alone I can tell we are in for a treat! @Terri_Burden 7 @Blake_Utne are awesome Customer Success reps. Thanks for sharing this resource @Michael_A! ---
**Author:** ![Terri\_Burden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/terri_burden/32/57664_2.png) [@Terri\_Burden](https://forum.asana.com/u/Terri_Burden)\ **Post date:** [29 June 2020 17:06 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/5 "2020-06-29T17:06:24Z")
So great to see you here! 🙂 I hope all is well, Jerod. ---
**Author:** ![LEGGO](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/leggo/32/94022_2.png) [@LEGGO](https://forum.asana.com/u/LEGGO)\ **Post date:** [30 June 2020 13:40 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/6 "2020-06-30T13:40:36Z")
@Terri_Burden, I watched the workshop last night. As expected, the superstars shined! New life goal: Do something worthy of a jingle by Greg. 😉 Quick question for the team: if I push items that are PAST today into the Later grouping within My Tasks, they will stay there unless manually promoted, correct? My Tasks is in a super embarrassing place, but I can’t to not take advantage of this powerful. In order to get a jumpstart I was thinking I would push all stuff that I need to go address (clean up) at some point, into Later. I’ve got 3,993 tasks in my recently assigned that need to be moved + a couple hundred in Upcoming. Knowing these won’t move back into Today or Upcoming (for those that are not due in the future) is key before taking action. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Chandler\_Ferguson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/chandler_ferguson/32/250504_2.png) [@Chandler\_Ferguson](https://forum.asana.com/u/Chandler_Ferguson)\ **Post date:** [30 June 2020 17:15 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/7 "2020-06-30T17:15:21Z")
Love this! Thanks so much for sharing! I am in the middle of watching and my question is how did Greg do the “time delta shortcut” since we can’t see his screen? I just tried ‘tab+d’ and then “+1 week” and got nothing. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Terri\_Burden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/terri_burden/32/57664_2.png) [@Terri\_Burden](https://forum.asana.com/u/Terri_Burden)\ **Post date:** [30 June 2020 19:42 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/8 "2020-06-30T19:42:26Z")
Yes! That’s correct. 🙂 Anything in Later (with a due date) will auto-promote to Upcoming a week before the task is due. You have the right idea. Also, no judgement when it comes to My Tasks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Terri\_Burden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/terri_burden/32/57664_2.png) [@Terri\_Burden](https://forum.asana.com/u/Terri_Burden)\ **Post date:** [30 June 2020 19:44 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/9 "2020-06-30T19:44:59Z")
Ahhh yes! Here’s a screenshot. Sorry about that! 🙂 ![Screen Shot 2020-06-30 at 12.44.48 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/c/a/ca9c48587a86bb018275557306ebafc8d2f4aa9f.png) ---
**Author:** ![LEGGO](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/leggo/32/94022_2.png) [@LEGGO](https://forum.asana.com/u/LEGGO)\ **Post date:** [30 June 2020 19:50 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/10 "2020-06-30T19:50:38Z")
Well on my way to making this a usable space. Thanks for the confirmation. I didn’t want to run the risk of moving the old stuff (overdue) to Later as a placeholder until I have time to address
 only for Asana to go
 “hey, these are past due, auto-promote to today!” - I would have to change my approach if that was the case. ---
**Author:** ![Chandler\_Ferguson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/chandler_ferguson/32/250504_2.png) [@Chandler\_Ferguson](https://forum.asana.com/u/Chandler_Ferguson)\ **Post date:** [30 June 2020 20:15 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/11 "2020-06-30T20:15:59Z")
Perfect! I was trying to add it on to the end of the date that was already set but that makes sense. Thank you!! ---
**Author:** ![LEGGO](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/leggo/32/94022_2.png) [@LEGGO](https://forum.asana.com/u/LEGGO)\ **Post date:** [1 July 2020 01:23 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/12 "2020-07-01T01:23:33Z")
I managed to get through my backlog in My Tasks and am setup to get more functionality out of this feature. One thing that I came across that was unusual is that I am unable to add milestones within My Tasks. It is showing this to be a Premium feature although I am the admin for a business license. Since my business license is setup as a division with specific Teams, am I not gaining this functionality because I have a task assigned to me that with a project of a team that is NOT within our license? I’m trying to understand why I would be seeing this limitation. cc: @Marie & @Emily_Roman ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\ **Post date:** [1 July 2020 04:02 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/13 "2020-07-01T04:02:45Z")
@LEGGO, Yes I bet you’re not seeing Milestone tasks in My Tasks for the reason you give (I can see them in a regular, org-wide paid plan). Re My Tasks organization: - I never open Later and use Later tasks **without a due date** as a dumping ground for tasks that I don’t/can’t unassign myself from but don’t need to look at, e.g, in an AOR (Areas of Responsibility) type project where I’m assigned to functions, as one example. - I am careful never to put a task I care about in Later **unless I give it a future due date first** so that it will auto-promote, which I do very often to clear the way until needed. - The above may be at odds with your triage approach, until you get the backlog triaged. - Check out the way I set up Sections in my own My Tasks–it’s the big screenshot and brief explanation ahead of it in this Asana blog post: > **[How the Asana community stays organized while working remotely - The Asana Blog](https://blog.asana.com/2020/04/community-tips-remote-work/)** > > Learn how Asana Community members are staying organized and gaining clarity while working from home, then try their tips yourself! Finally, regarding +1 week in the Due Date field, see this entire thread for various other shortcuts: > [@Due date shortcuts](https://forum.asana.com/t/due-date-shortcuts/35448): > > Occasionally, one of my colleagues will see me adding a due date by typing one of the recognised shortcuts, and they’ll say, “Wow! I didn’t know you could do that!” So, just in case there are any others who don’t know them, here are some non-case-sensitive shortcuts for typing due dates: Typing a weekday will assign the task to the next one - Mon, Tues, Wed, etc. You can also assign to the previous weekday (for retrospective start dates, perhaps) - last Mon, last Tues, etc. You can use Yester
 Larry ---
**Author:** ![William\_Flack](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/william_flack/32/54107_2.png) [@William\_Flack](https://forum.asana.com/u/William_Flack)\ **Post date:** [3 July 2020 07:45 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/14 "2020-07-03T07:45:20Z")
Thank you for posting about this. It looks very useful. ---
**Author:** ![LEGGO](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/leggo/32/94022_2.png) [@LEGGO](https://forum.asana.com/u/LEGGO)\ **Post date:** [4 July 2020 19:07 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/15 "2020-07-04T19:07:46Z")
> [@LEGGO](#): > > if I push items that are PAST today into the Later grouping within My Tasks, they will stay there unless manually promoted, correct? @Bastien_Siebman answers my question (quote above) at the 2:35 mark of this helpful video: [https://youtu.be/1aPCfuDtxy0](https://youtu.be/1aPCfuDtxy0) ---
**Author:** ![Adrienne\_McCue](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/adrienne_mccue/32/3240_2.png) [@Adrienne\_McCue](https://forum.asana.com/u/Adrienne_McCue)\ **Post date:** [8 July 2020 04:14 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/16 "2020-07-08T04:14:43Z")
I’m loving how you did the training, I need to practice as we are doing a lot of workshops, webinars, and classes! ---
**Author:** ![Marie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/marie/32/42208_2.png) [@Marie](https://forum.asana.com/u/Marie)\ **Post date:** [11 November 2020 14:22 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/learn-how-to-manage-your-my-tasks-like-a-boss-featuring-asana-csm-terri-burden/87057/17 "2020-11-11T14:22:38Z")