Understand Asana’s core features

Organize your work into shared projects as lists or Kanban boards for your initiatives, meetings, and programs.

Break work into manageable pieces for you and your team.

Break up a task into smaller parts, or show additional steps to complete an overall task.

Visualize significant checkpoints in your project to measure and share progress.

Give tasks a clear owner, so everyone knows who’s responsible.

Group tasks into sections in any project to match workflows, break up types of work, and keep tasks organized.

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.

Use an embedded timer or manually track the time spent on tasks to support resourcing and view project progress.

Specify the date and time something is due so everyone’s working off the same deadline—no matter their time zone.

Set start dates on tasks, so you can avoid the last minute scramble.

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.

Use easy-to-fill forms to establish a formal submission process for work requests.

Use Rules to automate important actions in your processes so teams don’t miss steps.

Say thanks, give a thumbs up, or vote for a task with a like.

Streamline and clarify your approvals process to make sure everyone knows what work needs to be approved, when, and how.

Give teams clarity and context on work in one place. Share key resources, status updates, and more.

Use this open text editor to write briefs in Asana. Outline scope of work, backstory, and other details.

Keep the same task in multiple projects to see work in different contexts without duplicating efforts.

Task dependencies make it clear which tasks are ready to start, and which tasks are waiting on others.

Create your own project templates so your team can quickly and easily kick off work.

Eliminate time spent recreating your team’s common workflows.

Your space to organize and prioritize your daily tasks and project work.

See how the pieces of your project fit together and keep work on track as things change.

Get a real-time overview of how busy team members are across projects, and rebalance work to keep projects on track.

Monitor the status of all your projects in real time, so you can keep initiatives on track and report updates to your team.

Get automatic updates about the projects, conversations, and tasks that matter to you.

Get real-time project data in one place. Customize charts to see where work may be blocked or off track.

All teams can be successful in Asana. Learn more about our accessibility features.

See any list of tasks on a Calendar to get a clear view of when work is due.

Find the project files you need quickly in a gallery view with all of the project’s attachments.

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.

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.

Export to CSV and JSON if you want to slice and dice your own data.

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.

Collaborate with vendors, contractors, and partners in Asana.

Limit access to any project, create hidden teams for sensitive work, or make public teams and projects so your entire organization can access them

Lockdown your projects by making them comment-only so you can share information with your team without worrying about unwanted edits.

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.

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.

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.

Add teammates as followers so they can stay in the loop with work on the task and receive relevant notifications with task updates.

This feature distills data from Asana into charts and other highlights—for an easy way to tell a visual story about progress.

Send private messages in Asana to people, projects, and teams.

Discuss a project’s progress to keep the momentum going.

Create a space for all team conversations and announcements.