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by enraged_camel 3921 days ago
I'm in the same boat as the parent: ALL my clients use Slack, and none of them wanted to use Asana, so I gave up.

Sure, Asana does task management... but that's about all it does. Slack is a lot more casual, and you can create channels for each project and have conversations there about who will be doing which task.

Internally, we actually use Trello for task management. Honestly, it's far superior to Asana in terms of ease of use and flexibility. It has less features, but that just encourages keeping things organized in simple ways, which is great.
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ne0n 3921 days ago
Well, yeah, you have to use the right tool for the job. You don't use a task management tool to chat with clients.

You find Trello easier to use and more flexible than Asana? I actually find the exact opposite. You do task management for your entire company with Trello?

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enraged_camel 3921 days ago
We have a team of about 10 people. Yeah, we use Trello for the whole team.
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misiti3780 3921 days ago
I, also, use Trello over Asana on most projects
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misiti3780 3921 days ago
Agreed - I about the ease of use - example:

Yesterday, I logged back into to look at their new UI (which is very pretty) and it took me 5 minutes to figure out how to remove someone from the workspace

Trello doesn't have the design that Asana has, but it gets the done. You can also add task lists using markdown in Github issues, which is my personal favorite.

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