This still hasn’t been implemented yet three years after?? I am having the same issue. It took me a week to realize that I was actually two days behind on my daily tasks because of how daily tasks don’t actually recur daily as one would expect them to!
This isn’t expected behavior! If a task should be completed every day, then I expect asana to create that task for every day! If I wanted to have just one instance of that task until I complete it, I would have set it up to repeat periodically, 1 day after completion. Not set it to repeat daily!
The workaround of creating a whole bunch of duplicates and set them to recur weekly, would technically work (unless you miss weeks the same way you miss days? ಠ_ಠ), but this is a basic feature, I shouldn’t need to use workarounds for it. What if I wanted to add something to the description of this recurring task? I’d need to update it on 5-7 instances of the task?
I get that you might worry about tasks multiplying like bunnies, but that can be solved by setting up some kind of relevance period. If you are behind on completing that task for, say, a week or two, then just have it automatically deleted or something.
There are many scenarios where people need this functionality. For example, many have daily quotas they need to fill, and if they don’t, they need to work extra the following days to make up for it. Not to mention writing daily check ins, filling up work hour sheets, daily reports, etc. If you have to enter your tracked time for a certain day in a sheet so you can get paid for it, it isn’t ok to miss a day!!
You shouldn’t be thinking “oh, there is a workaround for this, so we have better things to work on”, you should be thinking “this is a basic feature. Basic features have priority over advanced features.”
Do a google search, if there are countless people on the internet posting about a workaround to get a certain functionality than you obviously have a problem for you aren’t catering to the needs of your users.
I literally check in every couple of years to see whether asana had implemented the basic features our team needs so we can move to asana, yet year after year there is still no progress. And it would seem that I am a fool for even expecting them to come.