Introduction to Asana for Absolute Beginners

In this video for beginners, I'm going to walk through setting up a project and the project management features you can use to help you work move your work forward more efficiently.

0:00 - Introduction
0:47 - Create a new project
2:42 - Defining the project goals
4:17 - Create sections to organise tasks
5:01 - Define the project milestones
6:16 - Adding tasks & subtasks to your project
7:07 - Adding an assignee and due date
8:19 - Adding notes, attachments and comments
9:15 - List, Board, Timeline & Calendar views
10:37 - Customisation options
11:39 - Keeping the project up to date
12:41 - Project status updates
13:39 - Outro

[wambuigitau]

hi, from Kenya here and let me tell you, you are the only human who explains what Asana does in human language, the noise that was in my head is finally shut up. am so greatful and thank you for the good work you are doing. I am switching careers from teaching and am self learning through spaces like yours and i can tell you that you are a great teacher and yes keep doing what you are coz you are actualy touching lives in a positive way!!!

[sirishkumar-mz]

Thanks for sharing this complete guide on Asana! Managing numerous projects can be stressful, but this tutorial stresses some valuable features that can help simplify the process—much enjoyed!

[sherrilltechnology]

Man what a great video thanks so much this helps immensely!!

[raisingbarssince]

the biggest flaw with asana is that you cannot have all your tasks from different workspaces displayed in one list.

[jeffreydodds]

Paul, this is such a helpful video as an intro. Would it be a good app to use for an individual/alone work? If not, what would you suggest. Thanks. Jeff

[asgharhussain]

please is it the basic and start of using using asana video or is there any other video please ?

[JuliaFlaherty-opxb]

Hi Paul, I'm an experienced Asana user. What videos do you recommend for those who are not beginner level?

[stacyebrim]

Hi Paul-Is it possible to baseline a schedule in Asana? If not, how do you keep up with planned vs actual start and end dates for tasks? Thx!

[brittanyteague]

What plan is this? Individual and small teams or the business/enterprise ones?

[afsoonshodjaee]

Hi Paul,
Thanks for the great content.
Is it possible to have an hourly rate per person/ role in Asana so that we could calculate the hours and cost per person or task/project? I do not need an invoice but how many hours and how much has been spent on each task/project

[samishaseth]

Hi Paul,
Thank you for the simple videos. I do have a question on something I am struggling with on my Asana. How can I keep confidentiality between team members on tasks. Is there a way I can have a few of my team see some tasks (eg financials) while others don’t see it.

[firewind]

Hi Paul, do you know whether it’s possible to nest projects into one file on the side where “projects” lie? Rather than having numerous projects out on the side?

[sagradoentrelacado]

Would you use asana for the GTD methodology?

[Rose-retn]

Great video but it's hard to keep up because you are talking too fast and it doesn't give us time to set up the project for practice.