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In the workspace created by Asana when I created my account, called Personal Projects, when I create a tasks that I don't assign to myself and I don't assign to a project, that task is very hard to find. I need to run an advance search to get to them.
Being that that is the default way of creating tasks, it looks like is very easy to let tasks fall through the cracks.
How am I supposed to see them? Or am I missing something else?
I've written a (very basic) front-end to AWeg's version of the copy script.
You can use it here: http://asana.kothar.net
It works for small projects, but at the moment I don't have any large ones to test it with - I suspect it will time out on the server, since it tries to do everything in one go.
Sourcecode is available of course.
I did some tests. Asana shows the tags ordered alphabetically. The tags have higher priority than the projects, so they'll show up before everything else near the task. From my tests you can see only two tags near the task.
My solution: prepend a character to the important tags categories so they'll show up before every other tag or project name. For instance: @printer-office or *high-priority or *blocker. Maybe a bit late but I hope this can help.
Best Answer
The Personal Projects workspace has been phased out in the newer versions of Asana. I learned this when I asked about a limitation I had with Personal Projects (it would not allow me to order projects within the workspace).
The Asana support team advised that I abandon the Personal Projects and create a new workspace. I used this utility to migrate my projects, and I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked.
Be sure to contact Asana support first to ask about this, if you haven't already.