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).
Hi,
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.
Hi @George_McDougall , I’ve moved your post into this existing one.
By the way, there is an A/B test currently running which consolidates all notifications for running rules into one pop up. Let’s hope it stays!
And in your settings, you may also see another A/B test under the Display tab, where you can set the amount of time these pop ups stay on the screen.
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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.