I never used starred projects – I would just use the sidebar organized by teams as it was intentioned. I refuse to believe that the only way to easily see all of your projects is to STAR them or use the ADVANCED SEARCH. WHAT!!! That makes no sense!!! I would totally agree with @denny feels like a downgrade.
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Terrible changes… No good words for this. Really don’t understand the advantage.
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Hi @Sera_Deva 
It’s a pity you don’t like the new sidebar… I know it’s hard to organize everything from scratch when you are used already to a certain way of working.
May I suggest that you drag the Teams section on top, above Starred and Projects. Then you can just hover your mouse over each Team and all Projects are there. If there are too many Teams or too many Projects, then the Advanced Search is the best solution in my opinion.
I really hope you find a new way to organize your projects and make it handy 
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Less clicks? I have to click a dozen times now VS no clicks before because the projects were just there. This is a terrible, terrible redesign and has removed so much functionality from the product. We should not just have to “go along with it”. Its not functional enough to just go along with it.
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I highly recommend using the search bar a lot more as this is usually the fastest way to locate tasks, projects, teams, portfolios, etc
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This change in the way the sidebar is organized is garbage. Asana has taken a design that allowed me to quickly and easily review and organize all of my projects within a team and reduced my efficiency.
After loving (and paying) Asana for years, I will be looking for a different project management solution.
This is ridiculous!
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This new redesign is a massive step back.
Please bring back grouping by teams. This was essential for my workflow and now there’s just one long and chaotic list of projects.
Whoever thought this was a good idea needs their head looking at.
Looking for Asana alternatives if there’s no way to group by team.
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Hi @David_Alexander , projects are still grouped by Teams, as they always were, under the ‘Teams’ section of the sidebar. The only difference is that previously a Team could be expanded/collapsed, but in the new sidebar, the projects are displayed in scrollable flyout menus. Simply hover over a team’s name to have the projects list pop-up.
If the new ‘Projects’ section of the sidebar is not working for you, then I suggest you collapse it, drag it to the bottom of your sidebar’s sections and forget it ever existed. 
Yeah, I see that, but it’s not as intuitive or user-friendly as having it expand and collapse.
Before, I could make videos for others with Loom, and it would be an exact representation because I’d have only the relevant team expanded. Now my Asana doesn’t look like their Asana and this causes a disconnect and confusion.
I’d rather that project list just didn’t exist than being a mix of all projects some of which have the same names and being dyslexic using different colours isn’t good enough for me to know the difference between 8 projects all called Resources.
Now, I just have to keep the “Projects” part closed at all times, whereas I would open a team and keep that team open in the sidebar for one-click access to switch projects.
Now I haver to find the team and hover it and then click. Just seems like the opposite of productivity.
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I have dozen of project. Please ad a “show all” and not only a “show more”. I have to click it on and on to reach the bottom! And I need to see all of them, not using the search bar.
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I think the takeaway here is that users like options! If you plan to add new functionality, that’s wonderful. We users love it! But please don’t also take away functionality. This isn’t always “oh they just aren’t used to it and they’ll be fine once they get used to it”. Sometimes it takes away needed functionality from your users.
What I’ve found as a work around is just adding all the projects I need as Favorites, and then I can basically have the list I had before. The only exception is that there is a little “Show more” button now, as there is a limit to the number of projects Asana will show. Hope this idea helps someone.
It looks like this Teams subnav list of projects was just removed from the sidebar UI???
Hi @Christian_De_Pape , yes this has been already reported and escalated; we are waiting to hear from Asana on why this is so.
Until then, please direct all comments regarding this issue into this thread, here:
And make sure to check my temporary workaround here.
Thanks!