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The real work of Asana

Forget the menus and the buttons. This is what people actually get done in Asana at work — the real tasks, sorted by the kind of work they are, each with a prompt you can use tonight.

140evidenced tasks
1kinds of work
138with all four prompts

What kind of work is it?

tap a kind to filter the tasks

Which one is you, right now?

Pick the moment · no score, no sign-up
Where are you standing with your work today?
Whichever you pick, the four prompts below cover it.

The work, task by task

140 tasks
otherAccess other users' My Tasks4 prompts → otherAcquire music to be published4 prompts → otherAnalyze team member completed tasks4 prompts → otherArchive completed tasks or projects4 prompts → otherArchive tasks4 prompts → otherArchive tasks locally4 prompts → otherArrange financing for productions4 prompts → otherAssess consumer demand4 prompts → otherAssign an entire project to a person4 prompts → otherAssign project roles to team members4 prompts → otherAutomate adding members to projects4 prompts → otherAutomate routine tasks with rules4 prompts → otherAutomate tasks within projects4 prompts → otherAvoid common mistakes in planning4 prompts → otherBack up Asana projects and data4 prompts → otherBack up files/data to local storage4 prompts → otherBackup Asana projects4 prompts → otherBalance team assignments4 prompts →

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Asana's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.