“When Things 3 was new I embraced it as a lightweight alternative to my previous tools, a combination of Asana (work, mainly) and OmniFocus (personal, and some work). Like most people here, the clarity and focus of Things was a major appeal.”
“For starters, Things is single player, that's probably it's main attraction - if you want multiplayer that's a whole different segment of the market: Asana, Evernote, Google Tasks, et cetera.”
“Asana has a LOT of integrations and you can also set up workflows and integrations - have you set any up that might help you? I’m not sure which asana product you’re using, but it sounds like it might be Jira.”
“Taking your post quite literally, your current job requires use of a joint task tracking software (Asana) and your brain will not allow you to use public to do lists without significant anxiety.”
“There may be a way to “beat the system” while still doing the minimum necessary amount of interaction with Asana and finding a way to neutralise the most triggering aspects .”
“I also use project management tools (things like Monday/asana/jira etc) to keep of project progress and prioritization. I now use some newer ai tool features (like in outlook and slack) at the start and end of everyday to help me analyze things that need my attention and keep track of what I accomplished everyday.”
“I struggled with our stack for so long (Sharepoint/Dropbox/Asana/Quickbooks/Teams/Slack/etc.). I find that Workamajig has most features built in for a streamlined agency.”
“I really like Asana - I dump everything in there. I keep trying to like xtiles, because it's really cute, but it doesn't drag me back as easily as Asana does”
“In my job it let's me bring everything together. I can connect to jjra/asana/trello for project management. I can connect to Google analytics and Google ads.”
“Si vous utilisez Asana ou Trello pour vos tâches, les tâches de publication finissent noyées sous le reste du travail ; donnez à la production du contenu son propre espace dédié.”
“we’ve tried paymo and asana, and celoxis is also in the mix (I work with them, so not pretending I’m neutral so far Asana feels simpler, while celoxis is making more sense for the deeper PMO/resource side + the support has been solid.”
“Your Notion/Asana uninstall loop sounds familiar. I’ve had more luck keeping one small daily surface and using the calendar for real commitments, instead of maintaining a second database.”
“I use asana for my business- we are a 2 people team and it works great, i have also been playing with Notion and it’s great as well! But my clients have their multiple projects setup all on Asana free version.”
“the reason the others feel crippled is that monday, asana and wrike all price per seat, so their free tier exists to push teams into upgrading. one person is not the customer they are designing around.”
“Everytime I try to use Notion or Asana or a habit tracker app either I get bored and delete it the next day have done that with Notion a couple times or I just have it JUST in case ( never use it just sits for months before I delete it and then re-install it again )”
“I'd skip Monday/Asana/ClickUp for one person — their free tiers are designed to push a team into paying. If you already live in Google, a plain Sheet with status/start/due columns plus a filter view gets you 80% of it and never asks for an upgrade.”
“I've used Asana, Wrike and Monday for my work and they're all functional but they can be more than one person needs. Now I'm using PlanLine for my own projects.”
“I am new to Asana, and I’m trying to sort by due date when in due date grouping - no luck! Any idea? This should be something easy or rather expected user behavior when sort by due date.”
“I used to be a big Asana fan but it has gotten very bloated over the years. It’s to the point where I barely look at it anymore just because it slows me down. They have really moved upmarket and target enterprise users now.”
“Asana is great for trans and projects, but it does have a lot of features a solo dev won’t use. I think Todoist is a better fit personally for your use case.”