Two quick tips: 1) Quickly navigate to subtasks, and 2) Fast vanity link creation

[lpb]

Two quick, unrelated Asana tips that you may find handy:

1. Quickly navigate to subtasks: In List view (either in a project or in My Tasks), click a task title’s subtasks icon to quickly navigate and scroll directly to the start of the subtasks portion of the task detail pane. (Alternately, I use this to provide quick access to the end of the description field).

   Click the subtasks icon:
   

   

   It opens (if necessary) the task detail pane and scrolls to between the start of the subtasks section and the end of the description field immediately above:
   

   

2. Fast vanity link creation: In any description or comment field, paste a previously copied URL over any selected text to instantly create a vanity link.

   Description field before paste with text you’d like to turn into a vanity link:
   

   

   With “https://trilogisolutions.com/” in the paste buffer, highlight the text to be converted to a link:
   

   Now just paste the URL. Don’t fear; it won’t replace the text; instead, it will create your vanity link without your needing to click any toolbar icon or fill in a dialog:

   

For more tips, see Curated Index by Topic of Larry’s (@lpb’s) 50+ Forum Leader Tips

Thanks,

Larry

[Phil_Seeman]

Thanks, @lpb - I did not realize you could click the subtasks icon!!

[lpb]

Thanks for writing. It’s rare to find something new for you, so I’m gratified.

But I try to mention things like this to clients and do often get good, similar reactions!

[Arthur_BEGOU]

So cool, thanks @lpb!

Especially the “Quickly navigate to subtasks” that I didn’t know

Always something new to learn with Asana

[Richard_Sather]

Great tips as usual, @lpb !

To be honest, I thought tip no.2 was building up to show how to do the below (which I’m certain you know about) that I also get positive reactions from clients, when I demo it:

Highlight any text (or lines of text) in the description field and click on the Subtask button…

…and Asana will convert each line of text into a subtask, leaving a clickable link in the description field, which could then be optionally deleted:

Perhaps that could be tip no. 3)

[lpb]

That is certainly a great tip #3, and keeps the subtasks tip love going; thanks!

I actually already mentioned that tip a couple times before, like:

Highlight Text and Create a Task in meeting notes / messages

FYI…In a task’s Description, you can, as of some months ago, highlight text and create a subtask from it, which converts the selected text into an @mention of the newly-created subtask. Thanks, Larry

so I was trying for something I hadn’t done before.

[Julie_Kern]

For subtasks you create, is there a way to make the subtask automatically add the project and section it’s associated with? Currently, I have to go into each subtask and manually assign the project and section. It’s a pain to have to assign each subtask manually back to the main project and section it falls under. Thanks!

[lpb]

Welcome, @Julie_Kern,

You may want to start a new topic for this unless it’s really related to this topic.

You can multi-select subtasks to accomplish that once for all selected subtasks, if that helps.

[Lesław_Świerczyński]

Navigating backwards, from a sub-sub-task to a sub-task and back to the main task could be more intuitive. I think that there is no “Back” or “Up” button like in web or file browsers, and you can only go one level up/back by clicking the text with a link in line “Projects”.

[Bastien_Siebman]

@Phil_Seeman

I did not realize you could click the subtasks icon!!

You can also click the comment bubble

[Anne-Sophie_Drouin]

Maybe because I’m francophone, but I didn’t know those shorter user-friendly links were called “vanity links”.