Forces people to pay to have the custom rules functionality I imagine.
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Iāve been told there is only 1 promotion event daily to move Tasks from e.g. Later to Upcoming, and it occurs around midnight. This has seemed to be true in the rare times that I check. See Tasks not populating into the "Today" section - #4 by Stephanie_Oberg
That was true for the original My Tasks.
In this new My Tasks now being rolled out, there is NO built-in promotion event. The only way to have tasks promoted from one section to another based on date is to create one or more rules to do that (which capability is available to ALL Asana users, at any subscription level including Free).
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Hello. I still donāt see the new My Tasks section. I am a free user but from what Iāve read I should be able to see it. But itās still the old look. Any ideas whyās this?
I donāt have the new version either, and I am on Premium. So it seems the rollout is still underway.
Hi @Nick_Rattermann, @SilviyaRadkova and @Stephanie_Oberg! We are still rolling out the new My Tasks to existing Free and Premium users so if you donāt see the features yet, it will be available soon. Thanks for your patience!
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Thank you for the info 
I just canāt wait to see it live on my account 
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We have an enterprise account but no news as far as Iām aware with not long left to the end of the month
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I definitely think Asana needs to add some additional āfreeā rules to āmy tasks 2.0ā
Under the circumstances (ie the current limited functionality) we really need additional rules
to enable personal workflows. Personally Iām currently using another project to handle āmy tasksā
until Asanaās āmy tasks 2.0ā is useable.
Desired rules (for My Tasks 2.0)
- Trigger: move to a section>> Outcome: add custom field to task
- Trigger: move to a section>> Outcome: add task to a project
Asana are you planning to add any functionality to search around āmy tasks 2.0?ā
Also when we select multiple tasks in another project, shouldnāt we be able to move tasks between āMy Tasksā sections?
Just a follow-up, since Iām sure everyone is on the edge of their seats with my personal struggles with this change.
Iām trying to make this work, but keep running into complications of user interface which is really slowing me down.
Foremost, I took advantage of having various sections in the former āTodayā category and those would change often as my workload changed. Now, I canāt get rid of them because they have tasks tied to them and I need that history. Why canāt I you ask? Mostly because when you have hundreds of tasks, it just takes too long to load and move them appropriately using the interface provided.
Any help here is welcome, I feel like this conversion to the lifestyle decision Asana promoted with āToday, Upcoming, Laterā will take me more time to fix than Asana saved me by promoting that workflow. Thatās not true entirely, but it will take more than a day to fix.
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I have to say that this, in my opinion, is just the worst Asana update and has totally destroyed my workflow practices using Asana. The inability to have recurring tasks, or tasks assigned with Due Dates automatically work through later, upcoming and today and the removing of the keyboard shortcuts for this is a terrible decision and one that came with no warning. Whenever a recurring task is completed it goes to Recently Assigned, and to make it go to the correct place, I have to manually drag them all to Later.
Also, on My Tasks, I have also lost the ability yo drag and drop to reorder the tasks in My Tasks, which I used to rely on to order and prioritise my day.
As an Asana devotee, I was getting close to convincing our company decide to deploy Asana company-wide, however on the back of this update we are now evaluating other options. Itās just a shame but I doubt Asana will revert this update.
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Those of you following this thread may appreciate having a look at a comprehensive My Tasks article I published today which offers helpful clarifications and alternative approaches. Hereās my Forum post that introduces it:
Thanks,
Larry
cc: @Jason_C @Ben_Studer @Tim_Jasper @anon43779106 @Unprofessional @Bob_Weber @EmilyCarter @Dan_W @Luc_Jutras @Sam
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Thanks for this new feature. While itās interesting and I imagine it allows even new features coming in it broke several flows Iāve been using (user since 2011):
- Shortcuts stopped working - already mentioned. Alternatives mentioned by @Marie wonāt work from other views than My Tasks.
- Recurring tasks - already mentioned. While it requires extra steps it would be great to automatically move them to Later.
- One thing that wasnāt mentioned is todayās tasks break down per project. Iāve been using a custom report for this and itās essential to my workflow. Right now the report stopped working because you canāt search for tasks in the specific section. In the āSortā menu you can actually sort by project but it shows tasks from all sections Today/Upcoming/Later. There is āSort within sectionā option but it doesnāt work. Please, allow creating a view like this.
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Its sad to know that auto promotion feature is being removed and it is going to be added onto the rules feature, which means free users who were benefiting from this may not have this, unless we move to the paid tier. This strategy removing features and adding them back as a paid featureā¦is not ASANA like.
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I could not agree more, and what is equally frustrating is that a single free user can only upgrade to 5 users minimum on the paid tier. Which means that a single user of Asana cannot get the benefit and features of the paid version unless they pay for an additional 4 users that they will never use! I just cannot understand why Asana do not allow single user subscriptions on the paid tier. Surely there is a lot of missed revenue opportunity there. So if you are a freelancer for example and do not work as part of a team or a small startup business with 2-3 users, then Asana is out. As the business grows and the asana subscription users grow with it. But in this case a small startup is likely to use an alternative and grow with that instead.
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Still donāt have it. When will I get the new feature?
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Free users are getting in the rules function for their My Tasks only.
Have a look at @lpb postā¦
Regards
Jason.
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I use Asana since 2014, Iām a fan.
After āToday/This Week/Laterā feature, got a productivity boost.
Now this feature is removed, adding a new feature that from the user perspective does not aggregate value. My workflows are broken and my daily routine impacted.
This feature + web platform were the competitive advantages that made me keep into asana and recommend asana anywhere I go, and not to choose others that offers the same daily organizing flow such as 2Do or Omnifocus.
I really hope this flow gets available for paid versions only, otherwise this will show ASANA WAY OF DOING CHANGED and does not align with any values I look for in organizations.
That being said, I wait for a quick solution. Meanwhile is time to try another tools out there.
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