Asana Reviews

1. MarkRon

   12 months ago
   Simple and effective

   Asana helps me keep my projects organized and ensures I don’t miss deadlines. It’s straightforward to use and works well for team coordination.

   🏁 Competitors: Trello

   👍 Pros:    Easy to use
2. James00

   almost 2 years ago
   Convenient

   Convenient. It helps to stay organized and track task progress.

3. Alika

   almost 3 years ago
   Good, but not the best.

   While Asana is a robust task management and project planning tool, in my experience, it falls slightly short when compared to Trello, particularly in terms of user-friendliness and simplicity. Asana offers a variety of features such as multiple project views (list, board, timeline, calendar), custom fields, and reporting tools, which can be highly beneficial for complex project management. However, I found that the learning curve can be steep, especially for team members not familiar with this type of software. The interface, while feature-rich, can feel a bit cluttered and overwhelming for new users. On the other hand, Trello shines in its simplicity and straightforward design. The visual card and board system is intuitive and easy to grasp, making it a more accessible tool for team members of varying tech proficiency levels. Additionally, Trello's user interface is cleaner and more streamlined, which contributes to an overall more enjoyable user experience.

   In terms of collaboration, both tools provide good collaborative features like commenting, tagging, and task assignment. However, I appreciate Trello's flexibility with its Power-Ups, allowing integration with a wide array of apps which enhances its functionality. In conclusion, while Asana is a powerful tool with extensive features, I prefer Trello for its ease of use, simplicity, and intuitive design. However, I do see the value of Asana for larger teams or more complex projects.

   🏁 Competitors: Trello

Textpattern Reviews

Asana mentions (99)

• The Text Field is the New Dashboard

  Product teams shift from designing navigation flows to designing API surfaces and tool definitions. If the primary interaction is a text field, the quality of experience depends on the quality of tool schemas exposed via MCP, not the arrangement of buttons on a screen. Shopify, Figma, and Asana have already deployed remote MCP servers as HTTP endpoints, letting AI agents interact with their platforms... - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• How AI Streamlines Product Management: Boosting Efficiency and Innovation

  Popular Tools: Asana, ClickUp, Motion (for AI scheduling and task automation). - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• The 12 Best AI Tools for Project Management in 2025

  Asana transforms team collaboration into a seamless experience with AI-generated insights and workload balancing. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• How to Get Status Updates from Engineering Teams Without Losing Your Mind

  As trust and organization improve, gradually scale back the frequency of updates. For example, transition from daily to thrice-weekly check-ins, then to twice-weekly, and eventually to a single weekly update if the team proves reliable. This approach respects the team’s ability to self-manage while ensuring nothing slips through the cracks. Pay attention to the team’s culture - some may thrive with informal Slack... - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

• The Essential Software Development Process

  Asana. Asana Tasks will need to be configured with a Custom ID field, as ticket IDs via the API are all long UUIDs. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

Textpattern mentions (8)

• EmDash: A spiritual successor to WordPress and plugin security

  There's always https://textpattern.com/ which is also as old as Wordpress (older?) and better coded. (See also thttps://textpattern.org/ ). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Typepad Is Shutting Down

  For former MoveableType fans missing "the good old days" of CMS before headless CMS and the JAMstack took over the world, do take a look at: https://textpattern.com. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Matt Mullenweg, Automattic's CEO, Seems Bound and Determined to Wreck WordPress

  There's ClassicPress. But a better alternative than sticking with WP is https://textpattern.com/ (which has better and more stable codebase that is as old as WordPress). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• WordPress Alternatives

  TextPattern use to a thing like around the same time WP got started. It’s also PHP based. https://textpattern.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Modern WordPress – Yikes

  Checkout https://textpattern.com/ - its development started around the same time as WordPress, and still continues. Even though it didn't reach Wordpress' success, I've always felt that TextPattern is better coded than WordPress. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago