Tag: Asana

A tisk-it a task-it: Automate Tasks from Slack to Asana Using Zapier

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Get Shift Done: Tips and Tricks

Even if you began using “team communication” tools with IRC, you can appreciate Slack’s virtues, such as automation features and connectivity with other tools. For instance, you can send a task straight to Asana (a full-featured task management system), which creates a solid connection between team communication and the action items on which to follow up.

Even better, using a tool like Zapier to connect Slack to Asana can save time and help with task delegation. Instead of adding a task to two separate applications — once to Slack and again to Asana — you can click on the star on the Slack item and Asana is updated.

It’s surprisingly easy to set this up, though the initial configuration includes a few steps to ensure everything is connected correctly.

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Use Asana Task Dependencies to Put Your To-Do Lists on Autopilot

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Get Shift Done: Tips and Tricks

Handling teams with interconnected tasks can be a hassle. This can’t happen until that is done, and that can’t be started until someone finishes with some-other-thing. If you’re managing a project or are merely one of the team members, you need to know who is working on what and when to move things along. For example, if you’re re-launching a coffee subscription-box website, design won’t start until the team decides the best strategy to increase subscriptions and you plan the content to display.

The more tasks in your project, the more confusing this can be, and the more likely someone will drop the ball. Then everybody’s on four legs searching for the ball instead of getting work done.

Fortunately, Asana’s task dependencies features — available only in Asana Premium — can help you control a team’s workflow and track the critical path. If you know how the project pieces rely on each other, you can create the entire workflow ahead of time, and then watch as tasks fall like dominoes.

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Stay on Top of Your To-Do List by Automatically Adding Tasks to Asana from Outlook

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Get Shift Done: Tips and Tricks

Let’s be real: email isn’t going anywhere in the near future. That means the ability to integrate your inbox with the online solutions you use everyday is more important than ever.

The good news? Asana knows this, and has given you the ability to do just that. Even better, they’ve automated the process of adding a task to Asana via email. In this post we’ll look specifically at how to do this with Outlook, but you can also do this with Google mail.

Set up Asana to Accept Emails as Tasks

This is the easy part.

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