TIME BLOCKING TASKS x GOOGLE CALENDAR SYNC

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We are struggling to use the platform for its use as we have tasks in there and cant sync to Google calender and then timeblock the tasks to get done.

Taking the time to complete, due date, priority level and ideally a setting to designate its done in 30 min, 1hr, 2hr blocks etc and sync it to Google calender searching for available slots.

ESSENTIAL to stay useful. Without timeblocking all the tasks are in a to-do column and its overwhelming to try and manage and organize day and week.

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Hi @Von_Dellinger,

There is an existing Google Calendar sync. Can you elaborate on what specific capabilities you’re wanting that don’t now exist in the current integration? That’d be the most helpful to the Asana team for them to understand what’s currently missing that would be beneficial to you and your organization.

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Adding a duration and due date in Asana would look for an time slot in the synced Google Calendar and place an event on the calendar which is linked to that Asana task.

The point would be automatically add a time block to Google for the user to complete the task

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  1. It asks me for a calender event and populates a long list of my reoccuring calender events: this part is confusing. Am I supposed to make a reoccuring time slot where calender will only put pushed Asana tasks there? That step doesn’t make sense and is friction.
  2. Calendar app should add fields to allow smart scheduling from Asana to Google like Motion/Reclaim all do.
    Fields needed so Asana can intelligently push to calendar:
    Schedule: anytime or morning, afternoon, or at a time you specify
    Estimated Time: so it knows how much time to timeblock
    Max Timeblock: so people can avid 8 hr timeblocks of work
    Due Date: So it knows how aggressively timeblocks need to be scheduled
    Importance: so timeblocking knows what to prioritize

*bonus if it can group like tasks (under 15min, all email etc), if it can be customized to when you want to do certain tasks ei: deep focus in am or afternoon, email between 9-11am etc

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*another bonus would be to say only put timeblocks from app between 11am-2pm or to set when it can schedule tasks