Recently I have found myself creating and editing very large projects with many repetitive clicking, dragging, selecting and deleting of tasks.
This creates a pilling effect of notifications on the left side of the screen, while overlapping the very left side of the task list item, covering the dotted area (6 little dots) that are meant for grabbing and dragging tasks around.
This means I waste time either waiting for the notification to disappear on it’s own, clicking to close it, or worst and most frustrating - have it pop-up exactly what I am about to grab an item and it sneaks up on me just as I click, preventing me from grabbing the item.
I think the best solution is to have these notifications pile up from the opposite cornet on the bottom right side of the screen, or better, create a notification bin/window with a predefined maximum area (also on the bottom right side of the screen - and/or in the menu on the left) with a history button allowing for access of recent notifications, restoring deleted items and undo buttons too.
Agree those notifications drive me insane. So do delayed rules.
Just yesterday I was trying to demo something in Asana to someone, and the rules are so delayed a lot of times you end up clicking somewhere on a task and a rule takes effect a split second before (like moving a task) and you end up clicking the wrong thing and it causes other changes you have to back out of. The worst is when it causes you to make a change that notifies the people on the task, then notifies them again when you figure out what you did and change it back.
I’m just venting about the delayed rules, but I’ve always thought the notifications should be a horizontal bar along the bottom of the window that doesn’t interfere with anything else.
Oh ya!
The delayed rules definitely deserve a post of there own. Happens to me a lot, especially while demonstrating to others (just like you described).
It’s helpful to see that a rule has been triggered, however I do find myself constantly having to click to close the notification in the bottom left-hand corner as it seems to hang around too long and is quite large. And if multiple rules are triggered together, the entire left-hand side of the screen gets cluttered up by these notifications. I would much prefer something less invasive.
I see that A/B Test (or may be rolled out feature now) for pop up notification duration in my settings, but strangely the minimum time is 15 seconds to remain on screen. I would love to set it to 3-5 seconds so they don’t stack as mentioned by OP when batching tasks.
Hi! Long-time Asana user here. I have actually two feature requests related to this, but I’ll focus on the first one: When deleting multiple attachments in a row, the notification pop up windows stack up on top of one another, which then covers up the area where I would click to try and delete the next attachment and thus prevents me from being able to delete another attachment until the notification disappears or I click the X. This is incredibly tedious on a repeating tasks, as they currently replicate and include all attachments from the prior instance of the task, so I have to delete a large amount of attachments.
A few ideas for this:
Move the pop ups to the other side of the screen or appear from the top left corner of the screen.
Instead of having the pop ups stack, have only one notification visible at a time, so have a new notification replace a prior one and make the prior one go away when a new one appears.
Add a “delete all attachments” feature.
(This is my other feature request) Allow an option for repeating tasks where you can set it so that it does NOT include attachments when replicating.
I’ve merged your post into an existing topic where you can click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the Vote button.
Regarding the several other, different, requests you bring up, please create individual topics in English Forum > Product Feedback for each (after searching that category to verify there isn’t an already-existing request where you can vote and add your posts to). The policy in the Forum is one request per topic so everyone can understand specifically what they’re voting for and Asana can get clear feedback.
What if there was a horizontal “notifications bar” or something where notifications could scroll across in some way horizontally and then disappear after a few seconds? Could only take up a few pixels at the top or bottom of the screen perhaps?
