Understand Asana’s core features
Thanks to Asana’s Work Graph® data model, teams of any size can manage their projects, programs, and processes, no matter how complex.
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Asana is built for everyone, not just spreadsheet users, so you can plan and structure work how you want.
Boards
Organize work like sticky notes and track tasks through every stage. Boards help make your work processes more transparent.
List
Use a to-do list to capture every step of project work or processes in one place, and manage each step from start to finish.
Timeline
Map out project plans on a timeline so you can see the relationship between tasks and keep work on track—even when plans change.
Calendar
View your work on a calendar to easily spot holes and overlaps in your schedule and make adjustments.
Boards
Organize work like sticky notes and track tasks through every stage. Boards help make your work processes more transparent.
List
Use a to-do list to capture every step of project work or processes in one place, and manage each step from start to finish.
Timeline
Map out project plans on a timeline so you can see the relationship between tasks and keep work on track—even when plans change.
Calendar
View your work on a calendar to easily spot holes and overlaps in your schedule and make adjustments.
Projects
Organize your work into shared projects as lists or Kanban boards for your initiatives, meetings, and programs.
Tasks
Break work into manageable pieces for you and your team.
Subtasks
Break up a task into smaller parts, or show additional steps to complete an overall task.
Milestones
Visualize significant checkpoints in your project to measure and share progress.
Task assignees
Give tasks a clear owner, so everyone knows who’s responsible.
Sections
Group tasks into sections in any project to match workflows, break up types of work, and keep tasks organized.
Custom Fields
Go beyond tasks, and track anything in Asana. Field names, types, and values are customizable, so you can create fields for whatever information is important to your workflow.
Due dates and times
Specify the date and time something is due so everyone’s working off the same deadline—no matter their time zone.
Start dates
Set start dates on tasks, so you can avoid the last minute scramble.
Attachments
Add files from your computer, Dropbox, Box, or Google Drive to any task or conversation. You can see files on individual tasks, or at the project level.
Forms
Use easy-to-fill forms to establish a formal submission process for work requests.
Rules
Use Rules to automate important actions in your processes so teams don’t miss steps.
Likes
Say thanks, give a thumbs up, or vote for a task with a like.
Approvals
Streamline and clarify your approvals process to make sure everyone knows what work needs to be approved, when, and how.
Project Overview
Give teams clarity and context on work in one place. Share key resources, status updates, and more.
Project Brief
Use this open text editor to write briefs in Asana. Outline scope of work, backstory, and other details.
Sync tasks across projects
Keep the same task in multiple projects to see work in different contexts without duplicating efforts.
Dependencies
Task dependencies make it clear which tasks are ready to start, and which tasks are waiting on others.
Custom Templates
Create your own project templates so your team can quickly and easily kick off work.
Copy projects
Eliminate time spent recreating your team’s common workflows.
My tasks
Your space to organize and prioritize your daily tasks and project work.
Timeline
See how the pieces of your project fit together and keep work on track as things change.
Workload
Get a real-time overview of how busy team members are across projects, and rebalance work to keep projects on track.
Portfolios
Monitor the status of all your projects in real time, so you can keep initiatives on track and report updates to your team.
Goals
Set company goals in Asana so they’re connected to the work that supports them, and you can oversee progress.
Inbox
Get automatic updates about the projects, conversations, and tasks that matter to you.
Dashboards
Get real-time project data in one place. Customize charts to see where work may be blocked or off track.
Accessibility
All teams can be successful in Asana. Learn more about our accessibility features.
Calendar view
See any list of tasks on a Calendar to get a clear view of when work is due.
Files view
Find the project files you need quickly in a gallery view with all of the project’s attachments.
Advanced search
Run reports based on specific criteria that’s most important to your team. Save your reports to see work across projects, assignees, custom fields and more.
Teammate view
Understand teammate workloads by viewing tasks assigned to them. You’ll be able to see anything that’s been shared with you or that’s publicly accessible to your Organization.
Project export
Export to CSV and JSON if you want to slice and dice your own data.
Connect work across teams and to goals
Tasks can live in multiple projects, giving everyone cross-project visibility. Portfolios and Workload enable teams to see how their work rolls up to company initiatives.
Teams
Create teams based around department, job function, project involvement, or however works best for your organization. Teammates are connected with a shared calendar and conversations, and can be made private or public to your organization.
Guests
Collaborate with vendors, contractors, and partners in Asana.
Permissions and privacy controls
Limit access to any project, create hidden teams for sensitive work, or make public teams and projects so your entire organization can access them.
Comment-only projects
Lockdown your projects by making them comment-only so you can share information with your team without worrying about unwanted edits.
Team management
Designate Organization admins who can add, remove, and manage members and their settings, and enforce password complexity. Enterprise customers have additional controls with SAML and our Admin API.
Data security
Easily export or delete data from Asana, and have your data backed up on a separate server. Enterprise customers can also expect a 99.9% SLA uptime.
Task comments
Comment directly on a task to clarify exactly what needs to be done, and @-mention teammates or other tasks or projects so everything stays connected.
Followers
Add teammates as followers so they can stay in the loop with work on the task and receive relevant notifications with task updates.
Status
This feature distills data from Asana into charts and other highlights—for an easy way to tell a visual story about progress.
Messaging
Send private messages in Asana to people, projects, and teams.
Project conversations
Discuss a project’s progress to keep the momentum going.
Team conversations
Create a space for all team conversations and announcements.
iOS
Track work and stay up to date on the go. Just like our web app, you can use it to create tasks and projects, have conversations about them, and get updates on their progress when you’re on and offline.
Android
Winner of Google’s Material Design Award, our Android app lets you create tasks and projects, collaborate on work, have conversations, and get updates straight from your device.
Integrations
Connect Asana to the other tools you love to make it easier to track all of your work in one place and save time.
Robust rest api
Gain access to data in Asana to automate and fully integrate with your other reporting tools.
Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box
Attach files directly to tasks with a built-in file chooser.
Slack
Post updates to a Slack channel when there are changes in your Asana tasks. You can also create, complete, and edit tasks from Slack.
Send emails to asana
Send or forward emails to Asana to create tasks or start conversations so you can make email actionable and not lose track of important information.
GitHub
Link GitHub commits to tasks so your team can stay on top of recent code changes.
Instagantt
Create Gantt charts from your Asana projects, and visually plan out project schedules and map dependencies.
Harvest
Track time on any task without leaving Asana.
Success and support
No matter how large your organization, our support and Customer Success teams can help answer questions and add workflows so all your teams are set up for success.
Help
Our knowledgeable support team is here to answer your questions and troubleshoot. You can also search through our extensive Asana Guide for step-by-step articles and video tutorials.
Premium support
Get access to educational resources like webinars, recorded trainings, and our customer community forum from our Customer Success team. Plus, you’ll get priority support for your questions.
Enterprise support
A dedicated Customer Success Manager will help transition your workflows to Asana, provide custom trainings, and more. Plus, we guarantee you’ll get support response within two business hours.