Asana is a project management tool designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their tasks and projects collaboratively. It allows users to create projects, break them down into tasks and subtasks, and monitor progress.
Conceptual Difference with Klaro Cards
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Asana is a team task-tracking tool that is largely preconfigured.
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Klaro Cards is a fully configurable database tool. Team workflow management is a specific use case for which preconfigured templates are available.
What We Like About Asana
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The tool offers a clear and intuitive approach to team task tracking.
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Its interface is visually appealing and simple.
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Its dashboard feature provides key indicators with concise and effective visualizations.
What We Like Less About Asana
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In Asana, everything revolves around projects, tasks, assignees, and deadlines—no alternative mental models are available.
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Custom fields are secondary citizens, meaning they cannot always be used to filter or organize information.
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The tool lacks the flexibility of a database system and does not support personalized data views.
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Its privacy policy is overly permissive for the publisher, allowing the use of personal data and project content for its own purposes.
Some Screenshots
Home Screen
On the home screen, the proposition is clear: it's all about tasks, responsibilities, and deadlines:
Kanban View
A classic feature where tasks can be moved from column to column to track project progress. While Asana allows organizing cards by status or assignee, custom fields cannot be used for dates, numbers, or task hierarchies.
Filters
Filters are functional and more comprehensive than in other tools like Monday. However, data exploration is not as seamless as in Klaro Cards due to ergonomic limitations. Additionally, date field filtering is quite restricted:
Task Details
The task detail screen is relatively standard. It has a comparatively short description section compared to Klaro Cards, does not support as many custom fields, but allows for commenting.
