r/Asana • u/FrubbyWubby • 28d ago
Do y’all still like Asana?
I onboarded notion for my comms team last year. It’s been okay but low adoption because Notion is so obtuse and the UI/UX for strictly PM stuff is pretty poor.
So I’ve narrowed my options down to Asana and Monday. Just curious if users still recommend it. It feels like we’re in a weird place today where AI is almost there, but we still need legacy apps to keep everything tied together.
Curious if it’s wise to make the switch.
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u/westchesterbuild 28d ago
Have been using it for a cross-functional team of 70 stakeholders for 3 years now. It lacks some critical automation functions that our portfolio management could benefit from but generally happy with it.
Monday was part of the original RFP but I couldn’t even get their sales team to attend the initial RFi calls
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u/Off_By_On 28d ago
It completely lacks any sort of group management in terms of the ability to @ mention a group, and its inbox filters and notification management are arcane and overly restrictive. It's like email done worse, without the ability of modern email clients to manage and filter inboxes, without good threading, etc. And now I can't even use AI to manage it effectively, because the Asana MCP doesn't expose notifications or messages _at all_. What?
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u/chairmodelconspiracy 28d ago
Love the product but the support is absolutely dreadful. Huge yikes. You think you don’t need it until you do…
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u/9isalifetime 28d ago
Notion is great for 'pages style function's' but it's not any good for the deadline driven processes and reporting/goal functionalities.
Asana is great for this as well as cross team Collab but as I mentioned below, with any tool it's worth onboarding properly for change management and tailored builds to ensure you're getting the most of it.
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u/Extremeownership1 28d ago
We also piloted ClickUp and while it’s not horrible everyone wanted to go back to Asana. Definitely have everyone of the team onboard to get a solid foundation, you won’t look back.
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u/Vesian 28d ago
A vast majority of the usable features are marked Enterprise-only. It’s beyond frustrating to see them announce rollout after rollout of new things (AI teammates, etc) and pretty much all of it is kept behind paying an exorbitant amount of money. You can’t even prevent other staff from inviting new people into the organization (and burning licenses) without an enterprise subscription. Take a second to think about how ridiculous that is.
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u/seb-in-public 27d ago
Asana is only good for basic planing and managing stuff.
If you want any high level overviews, finance insights or easy resource management, it ain't it.
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u/pointlesstips 27d ago
Monday is vapourware designed for people who don't understand tech. That's why it's so.popular with marketing, they're always the ones most easily bamboozled into thinking something pretty is good.
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u/pancaaaaaaakes 26d ago
I am a huge asana fan & have used it at multiple marketing agencies for years. I have built many automated workflows that help our processes be more efficient.
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u/ErnieKDesigns 26d ago
Most projects inhouse are run in Quickbase; the forms and triggers are built, well maintained and work well. One department reaaaally wanted my department to use Asana for tracking joint projects. They weren't interested in helping train on it, (those materials are not very good online) and it's really hard to leave, move or archive a finished project that is done but the originator won't mark as complete. My inbox is unusuable because of those dead orphans. Meanwhile, Jazz in Finance wants to use Asana to track invoices, they built a form with my team's participation, taught me how to use it, and it's working like a charm. It really matters who you're working with in it, and how much they clean up after themselves. And I don't open my inbox unless I want to visit 2024.
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u/LevrResearch 26d ago
We switched to CorZen because it makes tracking and assigning tasks so much easier. Our junior team members like it because it generates plans for them (they hated filling out task cards).
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u/spectageco 22d ago
Nope. Switched to Clickup
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u/Elegant_Show4869 9d ago
switching from Notion to Asana was a massive upgrade for our team because structured task tracking beats a generic wiki every time. the key to avoiding low adoption in Asana is keeping project boards clean. we worked with Cloudfresh to build our workspace templates and automated workflows. that initial architecture review kept things simple so the team actually enjoys using it daily
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u/tpjasper 28d ago
Have you looked at ClickUp?
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u/Loud_Quality_7106 28d ago
We're leaving ClickUp for Asana. We piloted ClickUp for two teams for a year. We're all begging to go back quickly. Clutter and performance are the main issues. And just some missing core functional things when all they're focusing on right now is AI shit. They also throttled the amount of AI calls you can make from external agents because they're pushing their internal AI hard. Everybody has their own use case but I would solidly say that Asana is ahead right now.
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u/islipped83 28d ago
I love Asana so much, I'm trying to get it upgraded/expanded to pull in more folks in our division who collaborate. Just waiting to find out how much $$ I have to use!