Asana Foundations

Email isn’t actionable, doesn’t help teams define next steps, and scatters the information you need—not to mention the effort it takes to keep your inbox clean and organized. In Asana, you can turn your emails into trackable tasks in Asana without leaving your inbox, so you can spend less time writing emails and more time getting work done.

File sharing tools are great for collaboration, but sometimes documents can be disorganized or hard to find, and since they’re not alongside the work itself, they still don’t tell you who is doing what by when. We recommend adding files directly to your tasks in Asana, so you can find the latest version quickly and collaborate easily. Plus, Asana integrates with Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox so adding attachments to Asana is simple.

Chat is important for a quick real-time conversation about something time-sensitive, but it can also be distracting, difficult to search, and hard to keep track of action items. In Asana, we use messages to communicate with teammates on tasks or projects. The history of the message will be accessible and searchable later, and due dates and assignees will be clear. Plus, we can set up automations to receive notifications in Slack or Microsoft Teams, if that is something you would prefer.

In Asana, calendars are created automatically from any set of tasks or projects. When due dates get changed, this will be reflected on the task itself, in the project list, and on the calendar – all in real time. Tasks can also be edited directly from the calendar and dragged to update timelines. If you sync any Asana calendar to your Outlook calendar, you can click directly over to the task in Asana from Outlook or Gmail.