Using "Home" > "Private notepad" widget for pinning tasks

[ShunS]

This is collective knowledge at Japan community (タスクをPin止めしたい (How to pin tasks)) rather than my personal tip.

We sometimes want to pin or bookmark tasks for ourselves, such as:

• A reference task that I frequently check
• A frequently accessed task that needs a complicated Advanced Search to find it
• An important task with a future due date (pushed down when sorting tasks by due dates)
• A task that I want to check an hour later

I think the popular existing methods are:

• Adding the page to browser bookmark
• Creating a private project for multihoming tasks
• Adding a private tag
• Creating a private task to paste task links
• Creating a follow-up task
• Edit: Using a section “Reference” (thanks for the comment below)

Another nice way is to use Home tab’s “Private notepad” widget.

The benefits are:

• We can simply paste the task URLs to display the task name, just like in task descriptions and comments
• It’s the quickest place to access when we want to quickly record an idea – just one click or one Tab+H away
• It’s the “base” page we visit after finishing working on a project/task. Once pinned, we can forget about the tasks and the Home tab works as a reminder when we are switching between tasks.

P.S. I hope the private note comes to mobile soon. If you agree, please upvote Private Notepad Widget on Mobile App?.

[AnneNynke]

Nice idea ShunS! To use this widget I haven’t tried it yet!

For a similar purpose I made a section in MyTasks called " Reference "
Here I add tasks for documents and links I often need to refer back to. Easily accessible.

Also, every project I create has a section called Reference, where I link to most used links and documents relevant to the specific project, also possible to add this in the overview page or project brief, but I prefer having everything accessible in one list view. Highly recommend!

[lpb]

@AnneNynke

section called Reference

Nice; I do exactly the same things as you, in My Tasks and many projects, and suggest to clients!

Larry

[ShunS]

Thank you @AnneNynke! That’s a great idea to create the Reference section in every project.
When some projects have that section, while others not, it takes a mental load to decide the right place to store information related to each project. Thus I turned into using Home.

[Ferly]

This is brilliant! And now that they have improved the look of tasks that are linked, it a very clean way to “pin” a task to the Home page without being tied down by the due date sorting.

[Arthur_BEGOU]

Thanks @ShunS , great advice.

I would love Asana to allow “tables” in that note field; so we can use the “horizontality” (especially when displayed in full screen) - and not having to scroll ‎‎‎‏‏‎ ‎😁

This is what I mean (so much space on the right side…)

[Arthur_BEGOU]

Following my previous comment.
Meanwhile, we came with that trick to fit more tasks in the screen ‍