Tasks Created Via Email Needs Due Date

[James_Carl]

As most of you probably know, sendana.net does all of this for Outlook users as an add-in and a tremendous amount more. We are about 50-60% done with gmail version as seen in the second screenshot, so help is on the way for gmail users in the form of a chrome add-in that pops up inside gmail and what is already working great for Outlook. Available Now

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[James_Carl]

@Rebecca_Fiebrink What email system does your organization use?

[Rebecca_Fiebrink]

Exchange

[Rebecca_Fiebrink]

And FYI I’m working on a Mac so don’t have the full-featured Outlook for Windows

[Rebecca_Fiebrink]

Yes, I mean that manually assigning due dates is taking too much time. I’m creating tasks for myself from my own email. I’ve got probably 30 emails a day that should be tasks, not emails. But tasks I create from email are useless without a due date, because I can’t create a search in asana for “tasks with no due date.”

[James_Carl]

Outlook?

[James_Carl]

If you use Microsoft outlook on a PC you’ll find everything you are asking for at Sendana.net

[James_Carl]

Sorry Rebecca, I didn’t catch the MAC use. We are working on a GMail version of sendana.net that will work on the MAC.

Thanks

Jim

[Caisha]

@Rebecca_Fiebrink

But tasks I create from email are useless without a due date, because I can’t create a search in asana for “tasks with no due date.”

Yeah, that’s a flaw - you can vote for that quality of life change here.

Advanced Search for tasks without any due date (NoDate)

I tried to set up an Advanced Search for tasks without any due date and was unsuccessful. Asana Support says it is not a current feature. I think with Asana stressing that having a due date and having a task assigned to someone are significant for success that this needs to be added. They already added “NoOne” to the assigned to search, an equally import would be NoDate. Hope this can be incorporated in the future so reports of past due items inadvertently does not exclude task that are pig…

But as a workaround, may I suggest an advanced search - tasks you’ve created within the past X days? So you can just take a time to go through the list, sorted by due date (so those without due date are at the top) and add due dates? It’s not ideal, but would maybe help =\

[Maggie_Reddi]

Rebecca, we have an integration built with Outlook on Mac that allows you to enter a due date when creating a task. You can find out more here: bit.ly/2ugf2to.

[David_McCrossan]

+1 on wanting the ability to create a due date from a task created via email.

Would be great if I could just add say [1/8/2018] to the email subject line and it auto-assign to that date.

[James_Carl]

What email system and hardware do you use. I am sure you are aware that there is a GMail Add-in and an Outlook to Asana add-in for Windows based computers.

[Alexis]

Hi @Michael_Kinney and all! I took the liberty of moving this thread to the #productfeedback category. Feel free to vote! And/or let me know if you’d like me to move this back to the integrations category.

[David_McCrossan]

Hi James_Carl,

Yes, I have the gmail add-in added to my Google Apps when I am on my Mac. However, I am on the go a lot, so process a lot of email on my mobile devices. So being able to create a task with a due date direct from an email would decrease time having to send to Asana, then load up in Asana, assign a date in Asana.

[Steven_A_Woodruff]

Hi Rebecca, et al. _ I have this issue; sending Email to MyTasks, reviewing each day in Asana to establish a Due Date. I was able to create a Search Report selection Tasks without Due Dates which made assigning them faster.

I did this: Create a search report with DUE DATE = ON, then leave the date field empty.

Still have to go into Asana to assign dates, but easier to find all the ones that need dates.

Steve

[Maurits]

I would really love to see a method of adding a due date to the task. for instance entering duedate:dd-mm-yyyy in the subject of the e-mail.

[Marie]

Hi @Maurits there is already a thread on this topic, you can check it out here: Tasks Created Via Email Needs Due Date - #35 by Steven_A_Woodruff

[Paul_Leung]

My vote for this feature request!

[Seth_Syberg]

The email → task functionality has turned Asana in to almost the perfect task management tool to get me out of my inbox. It’s lacking one very crucial piece: setting due date (and automatically putting it in the “later” bucket).

Perhaps it could scan the email for “due:5/12/17” or something similar

[William_Bairamian]

It would be great to be able to add deadlines (due dates) when emailing a task to an Asana email (e.g. x@mail.asana.com). Otherwise, as things stand, we can email a task to Asana but have to go in there and put in a due date which is less efficient than just submitting it through email.

Thanks.