Hello everyone. Can someone please give me a clear definition of follow-up task and what it does. Thank you

Yeah not much there. Also, on that page the purple numbers are off by one between the graphic and the list for the last half of the menu items (because Print got skipped).

Thanks for flagging this issue @Phil_Seeman , I’ve gone ahead and made a task for the Team looking after thr guide :slight_smile:

I got a brief understanding on Follow-Up task. But the mentioned guide is still does not have more details on Create Follow-up task option. Is there any plan to update the guide?

Hi Team - very interested in knowing more about this. The guide says you can Create follow-up task but how do use this? Is this instead of using comments to say HEY ME, talk to XX about this?

That task seems to be at the bottom of the priority list.

When you’re in a task, click on the three dots on the top right and select “Create follow-up task” :slight_smile:

I’m new to Asana and I have same question. When I attemped to create follow-up task, I can see there is a link of based task, and task name is quoted. However, I wonder how should use for, what situation is imagend by designed. I’d like to create sub-task like this, ex.) Based task is “Prepare m…

I’m sorry, I found subtask is exists. Also I confused that the follow-up task is what for?

Hi @Marie , I’m wondering if this was ever addressed by the documentation team? I’m still seeing nothing beyond the items being listed as something you can do, with no description. Am I looking in the wrong spot, has the description been added somewhere else?

There really isn’t much more to a follow up task beyond what Phil’s explains: [image] Phil_Seeman: It creates a new task with the following characteristics: The new task’s name is “Follow up on [name of task you created it from]” It’s assigned to you, so that it shows up in your My Tasks list …

What are Follow-Up Tasks?

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