Asana for Beginners

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It might feel like you’re learning an entirely new language as you dive into Asana, but don’t worry—once you’ve got a handle on the basics, you’ll be ready to go!

New User Onboarding

If you’re new to Asana, take advantage of the free onboarding and training materials provided by Asana.

Get Started

Asana offers a general user onboarding program. Get started with a live or pre-recorded version.
Office Hours

Asana offers beginner office hours on Fridays at 10:00AM PT and intermediate/advanced office hours on Fridays at 10:30AM PT.
Live Coaching Workshops

A feature-specific workshop series. You can sign up here.
Mastering Project Management Training

A great new, pre-recorded training on mastering project management in Asana.

Learn Project Management in Asana

These are our recommended steps to becoming proficient in Asana.

Work in My Tasks

My Tasks is where you can find all the to-dos (or Tasks in Asana) that are assigned to you. Change your view to a List, Board, Timeline or Calendar. If you’re using Asana to manage your individual work, My Tasks is a great place to start. Learn more.
Your Inbox

Find updates on work that you’re a part of, such as when new Tasks are added to a Project or a team member (Collaborator) posts an update on a Task that you follow.
Discover the fundamentals of the inbox.

Manage your notifications in a way that best suits your personal work style!

Notification Settings

Create Projects

Projects let you organize your Tasks in a way that makes sense for your Project goal and provides a way to bring in other Collaborators. Get started with a Blank project, or use Asana templates to get a jump on organizing. Asana Project Basics.
Project Views

Change your view of any project from List to Board, Timeline, or Calendar—whatever makes the most sense for your project, and how you’re interacting with it! View Basics.
Favorite Your Most-Used Projects

Click the Star icon next to any project title to add it to the left sidebar for quick access!
Search in Asana

Asana has a robust Search tool to quickly find Tasks and Projects. (Trust us, it’s worth being best friends with the search bar instead of relying on your brain to remember where everything lives!)