See your subtasks directly in My Tasks grid✨

[Olha_Vintonik]

Hi Asana Community,

We’ve just shipped something many of you have been waiting for: you can now expand a parent task directly in My Tasks grid to see its first-level subtasks — without opening the task or leaving your current view.

What’s changing

Until now, if you wanted to see what subtasks lived beneath a parent task in My Tasks, you had to open the task pane and navigate into it. That interrupts your flow — especially when you’re trying to scan a full day’s work and just need a quick sense of what’s underneath each item.

With this update, you can expand and collapse subtasks inline, right in the grid. Here’s what’s new:

1. Expand first-level subtasks inline. Click the expand arrow on any parent task to reveal its subtasks directly in the My Tasks grid — no task pane, no navigation.

2. Collapsed by default. Subtasks stay hidden until you want them, so My Tasks stays clean and focused. Expand only what’s relevant to you at that moment.

3. See ownership at a glance. When a subtask is explicitly assigned to someone else, their avatar appears on the right side of the name column — so you can quickly see who owns what without opening anything.

Why we built this

Subtasks are one of the most common ways people break larger tasks into smaller, actionable steps. But managing that work from My Tasks has always meant context-switching: open the parent, dig into subtasks, come back. This update is about closing that gap — letting you stay in My Tasks and still get the detail you need.

We also made a deliberate choice about filtering: no assignee filter is applied by default. It’s a common pattern to leave subtasks unassigned — the implicit expectation being that if a parent task belongs to you, its subtasks do too. Filtering those out would hide work that’s very much yours. When a subtask is explicitly assigned to someone else, you’ll see that clearly in the grid.

What this release doesn’t change (yet)

This release covers first-level subtasks only. Deeper nesting levels, subtask filtering, and subtask visibility across other views like Timeline and Calendar aren’t part of this update — but we’re tracking your feedback for what comes next.

A note to the community

This one came directly from your feedback — many of you have asked for better subtask visibility in My Tasks for a long time. We’re grateful for every use case and comment you’ve shared. This is a meaningful step, and your continued input will shape where we take it next.

The update is rolling out over the coming weeks on web. Let us know how it’s working for you in the thread below!

[lpb]

Terrific–thank you, @Olha_Vintonik!

Larry

[Bryce_Driesenga]

This is great!

Now personally, I’d also love a quicker/easier way to view the parent of a subtask in My Tasks. Most of the tasks assigned to me are subtasks of a main task that contains the brief/description. To view that info, I need to click on the task in My Tasks, then click into the parent task from there. I’d love to be able to click into a parent task right in the grid.

Even being able to click on the parent task name that displays inline would be great.