Agreed. We were using Asana for project management for a long time, but weren't happy.
It's too cluttered and dense, with too many possibilities for accidental edits (you nearly always have a cursor in some field) and very little sense of modality. You feel like you're in a spreadsheet. Which is not a good model for a project management system.
Personally I was also extremely unhappy with the WYSIWYG contenteditable editor they used for rich text fields; very error-prone (undo didn't really work properly) and almost useless for exchanging code snippets.
We ended up switching to Clubhouse [1] (a Pivotal/Trello clone with a Slack aesthetic), and our project manager is now much happier with the pipeline-oriented task view, which is something that was missing from Asana. Text fields are Markdown, which is a huge improvement. There's nothing revolutionary about Clubhouse, it's just plain and nice.
Asana wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good. A bit surprised that YC is bothering with them.
Oh man. One of the biggest pet peeves of mine about Asana is the "too many possibilities for accidental edits". Classic example of "Haste makes waste."
I'm not the project manager, but I believe it's been very useful. During our stand-up we mostly just go through the "ice box" as well as current tasks.
It's too cluttered and dense, with too many possibilities for accidental edits (you nearly always have a cursor in some field) and very little sense of modality. You feel like you're in a spreadsheet. Which is not a good model for a project management system.
Personally I was also extremely unhappy with the WYSIWYG contenteditable editor they used for rich text fields; very error-prone (undo didn't really work properly) and almost useless for exchanging code snippets.
We ended up switching to Clubhouse [1] (a Pivotal/Trello clone with a Slack aesthetic), and our project manager is now much happier with the pipeline-oriented task view, which is something that was missing from Asana. Text fields are Markdown, which is a huge improvement. There's nothing revolutionary about Clubhouse, it's just plain and nice.
Asana wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good. A bit surprised that YC is bothering with them.
[1] https://clubhouse.io/