ASANA - 2-Way Sync
Ben Channon
We use asana to manage daily tasks and recurring tasks for team.
While the push from missive to asana is great...
It would imensly awesome if we could set a users task list to push back into missive ... even if once daily.
Out team have these tasks pop up in their task list each day from a multiple of projects... so it would be the daily/current task list that would be ideal to sync..
even if it only populated on a pre-set conversation.
Failing that a Count of due tasks in a notification area maybe... like an alret...
ie: "13 Tasks due to be completed today."
Neil Bothams
I manage my task list in my calendar using the asana integration and Reddiapp two way sync - there are lots of articles on the web of this technique called timeblocking from Francis Wade; Seth Brabian and others. There are many advantages of this approach. I want to spend as little time in email as possible but with over 200 emails a day from multiple timezones it has been a long journey to find a way to achieve that. I have found a way with Missive.
I am using the fantastic integration that Missive has built with asana to be able to see all my emails with large tasks (anything that is a quick check I leave in Missive with the inbuilt task and scrub it once a day). If I dont need to add the task to a specific project I just send it to a Project I have created called "Missive Email Management". (Note: I would like to see Assigned to set to default to me but the Missive developers have deprioritised that for now - a few tweaks like that and the integration between Missive and Asana would be even better)
Within Asana I then review the all Tasks everyday and then use Rediapps to sync without issue into my calendar of choice - for me it is Outlook but the sync works with Google calendar too. It is a flawless two way sync meaning I can move the appointments around in my calendar and they will update back to Asana and back to Missive.
Outlook and Google calendar are very flexible with lots of availability to categorise, zoom in, zoom out etc and so this solution gives me the best email client (works on all my devices and operating systems in the same way) with the a flexible multi-homing project / task tool ie asana (which also works on all devices) and all the power of a fully developed calendar that also works on all devices.
I have been searching for this Nirvana for 10 years - thank you Missive!
So whilst I still have to manage invites outside of Missive everything else works. I have setup a rule for all appointment related emails to go to a particular folder so they dont clog up my Missive infeeds. I can then either deal with them from the folder in Outlook once a day or look at them in calendar once a day (my preference).
I would be happy provide some coaching on obtaining this setup - thanks!
If you use asana definitely check out rediapp sync (Maggie is amazing at getting you setup) and if you dont use asana then perhaps consider it.