I don’t understand how anyone is meant to keep on track of tasks due within a date range if the task only shows up on the last day it is due under Today’s tasks in My Tasks. It’s completely counter productive and makes things go easily missed until the last minute when teammates then have to scramble to get it done. It should stay in front of people each day within the date range so they can stay on top of it and be reminded every day that they should be actively working on it.
For example. If I have a task with a Start Date of September 5th, 2024 and a Due Date of September 10th, 2024. Currently, the task will only show under Today’s tasks on September 10th, 2024. Instead, the task needs to show under Today’s tasks in My Tasks on September 5th, September 6th, September 7th, September 8th, September 9th, and September 10th.
The Calendar view is not the solution to this oversight. It does not function in the same capacity as My Tasks and is not an ordered list of daily tasks in the way My Tasks is. It is also not the preferred viewing method of every team member and there needs to be respect given to the fact that different team members function/work best in different ways.
This is an absolutely essential change that must be made for Asana to be an effect project management platform. Otherwise, these Start Date and Due Date fields are effectively useless.
What are you setting Sort and Group to in your My Tasks view? It sounds like you’re not using Group: Sections > Custom order as many of us recommend (along with combined manual and rule-based triage).
I have read your article (thanks for sharing) and examined the Sort and Group filters, but I see no option to ensure that tasks are grouped/filtered by their Start Date rather than there Due Date. No matter what I choose, the task is grouped with the other tasks due on the Due Date. Would you be able to tell me exactly what needs to be done to make a task group based on its Start Date?
Thank you. This is a decent workaround. However now I find the problem is everything is sorted under one section. Whereas previously, they were sorted under sections titled Today, Tomorrow, Later This Week, etc. Is there a way to get those sections back or recreate them while still maintaining this group and sorting method?
I know I can create custom sections with rules. But is there anyway to create them so they account for the days of the week? So instead of just Today, Tomorrow, they know to sort Thursdays task into the section called Thursday, for example?
Thank you! It truly makes no sense for tasks with an interval date to only populate under their Due Date and not their Start Date. I tried the filters suggested to me by another user above for a month, but had to switch back because it left me with either no section organization, or custom sections with lacking custom rules. Disorganization on every level. I really hope this is a simple change they make – tasks with an interval date should always show under the Today section if the date range includes today!
I agree that this is an absolute necessity for the ‘My Tasks’ section to function properly!
Yes, there are rough workarounds which are sort of fine, but none of these actually function as desired. As someone who uses the ‘My Tasks’ section frequently to see a snapshot of the day’s and week’s activities across a large range of projects, I just want to see my tasks in the “Today” section on all of the days in the task date range! Not just on the day it’s due!
I’m hoping they fix this ASAP as it feels like a massive flaw.
+1 for how ridiculous this missing filter is I don’t want to group by section - I want to group by priority. I can’t believe there’s not a date filter to say “today includes any day within the tasks’ date range”. Asana seem to be adding big things like AI - but ignoring easy low-hanging fruit like this. Or another one - looks like I can’t even filter by “doesn’t have a due date”. I’m new to Asana, and really want to like it. But there’re lots of these little things that makes it really hard to do so.
I don’t want to group by section - I want to group by priority. I can’t believe there’s not a date filter to say “today includes any day within the tasks’ date range”. Asana seem to be adding big things like AI - but ignoring easy low-hanging fruit like this. Or another one - looks like I can’t even filter by “doesn’t have a due date”. I’m new to Asana, and really want to like it. But there’re lots of these little things that makes it really hard to do so.