How to create cards in Asana

Tags help to reduce the complexity of different tasks through categorization. Help navigate the teams workspace by adding more context to your tasks through tags.

With over 200 integrations, Asana makes task management a walk in the park. It has a very flexible workspace that allows for cross-team collaboration with a number of tools for both small, medium and large businesses. Asana provides a workspace that allows for the management of multiple projects that can be assigned to different team members. However, there are some tasks without classification that leave team members out of context and can lead to longer project times.

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For faster project progress, Asana allows users to create, edit, and add tags to tasks. In addition, you can also manage tags for recurring tasks, add comments, edit or remove irrelevant tags, and ensure that every project is done ahead of time.

How to add cards in Asana

For the free version of Asana, Cards allow you to add fields to your quests. This is different from the paid version which allows you to use custom fields. Custom fields allow you to add small descriptions to your tasks. Tags come in handy in both the free and paid versions if you need more fields and descriptions to categorize your tasks.

How to add Asana card on computer

1. Log in to your Asana account via the web app or Asana Desktop.
2. Select the project and open the task details.
3. There are two ways to add tags: You can press Ctrl + T (Cmd + T for macOS) or you can click the three dots located in the top right corner of the task details.
4. A drop-down menu will appear where you can select Add Card.
5. If you already have a tag, you can click the + icon on the drop-down menu to add another one,
6. Give the tag a name and then select the Create Tag option from the menu. You can also choose the color scheme you want for the created card.

Most people use a tag as a descriptor to denote tasks for a department or to show the priority of tasks.

How to add Asana cards on mobile devices

1. Open the mobile app and sign in.
2. Select projects as well as tasks.
3. Navigate to the task details page and find the three dots in the top right corner.
4. From the drop-down menu that appears when you click, select Add Tag. You can also create a new tag by clicking the New Tag icon.
5. Choose a suitable name for the card and assign it to the task.
6. Choose a color scheme for each card.

It’s as simple as that. All you have to do is repeat this process for as many tasks and tags as needed. You can also edit the names on the cards or delete them if the tasks change or become irrelevant.

How to Edit Cards in Asana

Editing cards on Asana is not too difficult.

1. Just like the project view, click on the tag itself to bring up the Cards view.
2. Next to Tag Name, click the small arrow for a drop-down list of options.
3. Select rename and edit tags.

You should also keep in mind that editing a tag will affect any other tags with the same name.

Some other menus to be explored are:

1. Copy Tag link: This allows Asana users to send team members directly to a specific desktop on the Asana workspace. Copied links can be copied into a message or email for easy reference.
2. Remove card: Located at the bottom of the list in red.

What are some ways you can use the Asana Card?

Do you know how often project management meetings use colored notes to identify different aspects of a project? This is also the case with the cards in Asana. Whenever you create a tag, the next pop-up will let you choose a color for that tag. When choosing colors, make sure that team members understand what each color means. This makes it easy to scan through projects while keeping everything organized.

Here are some examples of how to use the Asana card.

Content strategy organization

After using Asana to build a content strategy, tags make it easy to identify content that’s published, edited, pending, or completed. You can also color-code content that needs to be revisited in the future. There are some other ways to use tags in this case and one way is to define the type of each asset..

Identify key goals

You can use tags to identify every main quest. Tags in Asana categorize tasks and make it easy for stakeholders to find tasks associated with a goal. These tags become searchable keywords that are used to pull up any tasks related to that keyword for easy access and overview.