Over time the ‘My Tasks’ area becomes very cluttered and filled will unnecessary completed tasks, even from archived projects. This causes unnecessary load when you’ve been using it for years.
The way JIRA and many other project platforms work is once you complete or reasasign a task from your ‘My Tasks’ (or similar areas) then it disapears from that area.
The same should happen in Asana, then if you ever need to look back on that task you can do that from directly in the project, or alternatively have a separate area called past tasks or something.
Currently when a task is marked as complete from any project then it just stays there even though its marked as complete, obviously you can filter completed tasks out but that is only useful for inside a specific project, not for every task you’ve ever completed.
My tasks area should really only be for current and active tasks.
Asana’s solution for this is to set the Filter to Incomplete tasks in My Tasks. It’s even more straightforward than in projects, because My Tasks remembers your settings (Filter, Sort, Group) without you’re having to “Save view” as in projects.
This, among many other suggestions, is described here:
I know that we can do incompelte tasks as a filter but no that’s not what I mean.
When you have been using Asana for many years, this all clogs up. It shouldn’t be a filter required if it is in My Tasks.
They should automatically remove so that it’s not sitting there for years and years.
All the other project management systems do not do a simple and lazy filter out, it should just disapear from your my tasks or be moved to an area called completed tasks that’s completely separate from your my tasks board & lists.
Many of us would not want Asana to behave as you do because we want the history maintained, not deleted. I’ve been using My Tasks actively for 14 years and this hasn’t caused a problem for me.