Asana is yet another tasklist. Trello is an innovation. I get the feeling that Asana is built for the people who built it, whereas Trello was built for everyone. Despite this, Asana should be praised for utilizing keyboard shortcuts.<p>I see no feature beyond the basic tasklist features that all PM software has. Not even velocity like Pivotal Tracker.<p>What is innovative about Asana? The customer doesn't give a shit whether it's done in Luna.
My tweet is actually all I have to say about it: <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/davidu/status/131738215227981825" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/#!/davidu/status/131738215227981825</a><p><i>"Asana is beautifully designed. Seems too generic for bug, applicant or project tracking but it's going to be my new To-Do list manager."</i><p>But to expand a bit -- I have a hard time seeing this replace specific purpose-driven tools (JIRA, Cerberus, etc.) even though it's gorgeous, functional, and has a cool off-line mode. It's just too generic for me. But for people who aren't <i>coming</i> from one of those products and have nothing today, it's a great way to introduce productivity. I'm surprised they didn't build in an SSO / LDAP kind of integration...<p>Finally - Salesforce focused on CRM as a use-case before branching out and getting less specific (support, chatter, etc.). Starting out generic requires your users to figure out how to apply it to their life, which I think is the wrong strategy.
I've been in the Asana beta for a while & while it's a nice product, as far as I can tell, <a href="http://www.getflow.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.getflow.com/</a> is better in nearly every way. I just logged into Asana again today & it looks like they have started copying some elements from GetFlow, like the tabbed projects/tags/people bar on the left.<p>Anyone seriously use both tools & have an idea of their comparative strengths and weaknesses?
I watched both Joel's trello video and the asana video. I came away from Trello's video really understanding what the product was about.<p>With this one, I didn't really understand what the product does. The repetition of "this is not micromanagement hell; instead you'll have more time to do the really fun stuff" in the video made me suspicious.<p>But hey, maybe that's just the over-literal cynical nerd in me who wasn't touched by the "emotional" impact of the video.
This looks pretty great. Signed up and taking a tour of the internals. However, I don't think I'll be using this unless the following are addressed:<p>1) doesn't appear to support external users. I can't seem to give a client access so they can comment on tasks, answer my questions or track my progress. All people you invite to a team appear to have unfettered access to all things.<p>2) no spec/pricing sheet on what's included. blog says "is and will remain free for teams with up to 30 members", but how much will it cost afterwards? Also, for the free plan, how many attachments can I add? What's the max size of an attachment? I don't want to invest my time into a new thing and then hit some invisible limit. (Yes, I've tried to look in the support/help faqs)<p>3) import/export. will you make it easier for me to move in from my current system? once I'm in the system am I locked in?<p>I'm currently using Apollohq, and it's been doing pretty well. It has all the features I mentioned above, as well as time tracking. Only thing is it costs money (a bit too much for my small team) and they've been slow to get a phone-friendly version. The interface has also slowed down since the beta, but for the time being I'm overlooking it because I expect growing pains.
I much prefer Flow by Metalab (<a href="http://getflow.com" rel="nofollow">http://getflow.com</a>). It's virtually the same product only much more fleshed out including a Mac app, an iOS app and more. I tried Asana several months ago but Flow is just miles ahead of where Asansa is today. Not to mention constant iteration in all of their apps (web, Mac, and iOS). Big A+ for the Metalab team.
I really like your proposal. Everyone else should definitely read.<p><a href="http://www.asana.com/kittens" rel="nofollow">http://www.asana.com/kittens</a>
Tips:<p>Take advantage of keyboard shortcuts, it's what makes Asana feel so quick.<p>Asana lets you do things your own way (ie. it doesn't dictate a project management style), but a little structure is useful. Read their 'Best Practices:' <a href="http://help.asana.com/customer/portal/articles/84980-best-practices-how-to-use-asana-for-project-management" rel="nofollow">http://help.asana.com/customer/portal/articles/84980-best-pr...</a>
Very clean product. Love the shortcuts, and key at the bottom. Looks like a great tool for development and business teams. Took a look through the site and didn't see any future integrations (i.e. dropbox, github issues etc.). Does anyone know if there are integrations in the pipeline?
Does anyone have experience using Emacs Org-Mode in a distributed manner?<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode#Distributed_issue_tracking" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode#Distributed_issue_trac...</a>
Very intuitive interface. You might want to help increase speed adding/editing tasks by providing many possible ways of adding due dates. See todoist, they've done it very nicely.
Weren't Asana the guys working on Lunascript? I remember being pretty excited about it, and it'd be awesome if you built off of it for this.<p>What's the status on Lunascript?
Anyone else using <a href="http://www.thymer.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thymer.com</a> ? Super easy 2d (team members and projects) task list!<p>Any feature comparison?
one of my biggest issues with asana is that it doesn't make it easy to see due dates, weekly to dos etc. for tasks (let alone real prioritization). I really suggest they put in a facebook-notification style section so I can see what I have due in my near future