I tried to create new teams to organize my projects as you mention on this post and what I realized is that I lose all the premium features when I move the project to the new team.
How do you manage this?
Thanks
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@pedro_prada
I assume your organization is not fully premium but only the one team you are using is premium. Consequently if you move your projects to other team, you will lose the premium features.
Please find more info here:
If you check your team settings you will find if this is the reason
Yes, please—would love to see this feature also! Because this doesn’t exist we’ve had to start treating some tasks as projects so we don’t clutter up the sidebar. Because of this we’re unable to use the “Dashboard” feature which seems like a huge waste!
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Yes having folders would be a great feature 
My team’s list of projects is growing, and it would be much clearer with folders.
Moreover, with one folder for a given project, we could have:
- 1 “Asana project” for daily activities
- 1 “Asana project” for meeting notes
- 1 “Asana project” with big steps of the project, that we could link to Instagantt. Today as I have only one “Asana project”, meeting notes and daily activities also appear in Instagantt while I don’t need to.
And having 3 “Asana projects” for 1 real project is impossible because it would triple the length of the project’s list.
Do you have a list (visible by customers) of the features you’re developping so that we have an idea if a product feedback will lead or not to any development ?
Thank you
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Yes! Folders - for sorting projects would be amazing.
Special if we want to have all our knowledge etc. in one place: ASANA
and search for it later. it easily gets cluttered at the moment…
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Please, please add this feature! My project list is unmanageable and our team greatly needs some sort of organization. We are not able to use the team feature because of our .edu email domains.
Are there any workarounds to better organize projects?
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I don’t know if my team can keep using Asana if we dont have this feature. We have too much going on and it negates the project Management side of things if its a total mess. Please add this feature!
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I am going to join the chorus of requests here. I am a Program Manager and oversee about 30 projects at a time from three different departments. They are in various stages of completion and it would help to have folders to organize a bit more efficiently.
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we have worked around this problem by making the asana “project” the folder and making the sub task the “job” and any additional subtasks within the task become parts of the job. Confusing yes, but works great for the team. We lose the functionality of the “projects” level (conversations, calendar, progress, files)… which is lame, but until Asana addresses the concerns of this group, we have no choice!
Jumping in here to express my dire need for this feature as well
If there was one thing I could ask of Asana to make the system more efficient it would be this feature and nothing else. My left pane is completely unmanageable which almost defeats the purpose of using a task management system?
Please … 
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Hi @Dan_peled, we are in the exact same situation as you.
It bothers us because we had no choice but to use the Projects level as a way to group our projects which are created in Tasks. And because of that, we can’t use the “custom project” feature that we were hoping to use heavily because it only works on Projet, not Tasks.
@Dan_peled since october 2017, what did your company decide?
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I serve 3 different clients who EACH and ALL have expressed this as a “weakness” of Asana. They want Folders on the left side that contain related projects to create a simplified view in that pane.
Each of these teams use Asana to create a “project” for each staff meeting agenda. Most tasks in the agenda project are tasks that exist in the upcoming event. (for example, in the week 16 team agenda, they might discuss and decide the emcee for a fundraising dinner…that task is actually in the Fundraising Dinner project (from a template). They want a a quarter’s worth of upcoming staff meeting agenda projects created, waiting and linked to the tasks from multiple events in process. In my teams’ case, the folders would be: ‘Event Templates’ ‘2018 Events’ ‘2017 Events’ (the events from years previous to 2017 would be archived, so no need for folders there) ‘TeamA Meeting Agendas’ ‘TeamB Meeting Agendas’
Pretty please can I talk (toss thoughts) with a developer about this?
Hello Guys,
Same here !
As a web agency, we create a team for each of our clients and use projects to organize our projects workflow (examples of projects : essentials / steps / user stories / current sprints etc…).
The issue is that we can have several projects in the same time for the same client. As we need different Asana’s project for each of our project we end to have a long list of projects for each client, completely unorganized. So It will be great to great folders/stack for each of our projects combining all the related asana projects.
Cheers
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ASSana hasn’t changed in years. We are speaking to ourselves here.
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I badly need this feature as well. We have a number of clients, and the number of projects we have for each is increasing by the day. My left pane is getting out of hand! It would be a lot organized for project managers to have different folders to dump in similar projects.
I feel that the most glaring weakness of Asana is the lack of any defined options to establish a project hierarchy. Currently, the only way to group projects is by establishing teams (if you are a premium user). However, even that can get very cluttered.
When kicking off a large projects, it would be fantastic to break it down into multiple sub-projects rather than sections. That will reduce clutter and allow users to hone in on sub-projects. Currently, sections, though useful, are not collapsible, so projects can get very lengthy.
Furthermore, a user should be able to drill into a sub-project and see a defined breakout of the sections, tasks, and subtasks.
Thank you.
Weakness or strength? My feeling is that another level could be confusing and make the product more complex. But I agree that managing many projects/tasks can be challenging… @Julien_RENAUD any suggestion on the subject?
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Another topic is already opened, see:
https://forum.asana.com/t/project-folders/
As subtasks are not easy to use I would also appreciate to group some projects. For project with several members involved (research, marketing, finance,…), having only one project with sections leads to a very long list of tasks, even too long… For this reason we have already doubled some projects but not ideal because the project’s list becomes long. Thus for very big project we have decided to convert the project into a team.
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Our software development team is joining the crowd in need of project grouping/organizing!
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I hear what you are saying, @James_Leo. Two current workarounds for sorting projects:
- Group with color-coding
- Use an empty project as a placeholder/title project.
See image below for an example combining these approaches.
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