Getting Started with Asana (for Absolute Beginners)

Brand new to Asana and not sure where to start? In this video, I walk you through how to create your first team and project in Asana.

When you're first getting started, my advice is to keep things simple. Don't go overboard when setting up your teams and projects. Keep it simple (at least to begin with). Take a project you're working on now and have a play with the features in Asana to see how they can be used to manage your work. Then, once you've established how you'll use Asana, you can invite your team and show them how to interact with the project.

00:00 Getting started with Asana
00:52 Create an account
01:24 Set up your first project and tasks
05:10 Add teams and share projects
09:15 Get familiar with Asana Overview
10:05 Introduction to Milestones
11:20 Set up and customise tasks
15:00 Get to know Asana sidebar menus

[wpbravo]

Really Nice Tutorial. Thank you so much for such a beautiful video.

[producermakermachina]

Great onboarding help. Thanks for that 👍

[mlujoyt]

Hi Paul,
I have been watching some of your youtube videos and am learning quite a bit! Thank you. I am a stay-at-home mom who used to own an interior design business (my team and I used asana for project management in the 2014-2016 era).
For home use, I have recently started an online course called learn-do-become that is all about organizing. I am using asana for home projects now. Here is where I get SUPER confused. They set up a project called "Kath's Projects" and in there the sections are "Current Projects", "Next in Line Projects" and "Someday Projects". Within those sections they put things like "recover dining chairs", "clear out garage" as tasks, which they then outline the next steps as sub-tasks. Now what I am not getting is how do I also have a project called "MY HOME" and list out those "mini-projects" PLUS the 10, 000 other projects i would like to do. Do I make an actual project called "MY HOME" and make a list of the 10, 000 tasks there and just move a task from there to "KATH'S PROJECTS" when one of them is going to be a current project (or next in line)? I don't expect you to help me for free, and I would love to get input on how to think this through. Do you offer one on one consulting? If yes, what is your rate for that? Would you be willing to help me even though I do not have a business currently? Many thanks, Katherine

[zeyada.elbaser]

منور، حاج بول! Illuminated, Hajj Paul!
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[SkyCharter]

Thanks. Now I know what Sections are. Onward to the next unknowns of Asana.

[ulomaogunka]

Thank you so much, atleast i have achieved something today because I been using many tasks and couldnt catch up anything. Thank you

[albee]

Thanks for the helpful video. Question if you don't mind. I want to be able to only have one Task in a Section at a time. So for example, if I wanted to add another task in a section that already has a task in it, I wouldn't be allowed to because there would be some sort of restriction notification that pops up. Is this possible?

[lex]

Hi Paul,

Do you have any videos regarding custom fields to track task costs? I’m looking to add a cost field and invoice paid (yes/no) field against our tasks in a project so I can then filter or download excel to track.

Thank you

[jacobpedersen]

Hey Paul just signed up for asana and in the setup something is diferent to yours I do not have the botton add team this is a bit strange

[PhilEntertainmentOne]

Hello, thanks for great tutorial, subscribed! I want to ask you - since we are using gmail in our team, to which are e-mails redirected, should we use our gmails to sing in Asana, or we can use the original email address (non-gmail). I'm asking because we will want Asana to sync with our google Drives and files on it. Thank you very much!

[mateusmx]

How do you organize when you have two companies? Just one Asana account for both?

[elymcelwee]

Why does you Asana view look so different than mine?

[tulayyucesan]

Hi Paul, i am getting so frustrated because i am using my work domain account but i dont get the option to make different teams (marketing, sales, admin etc) how can i fix that?