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Asana Free Version Review 2024 - Better Than Monday.com_
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Mar 10, 2024
Explore the capabilities of the Asana Free Version in 2024 with this in-depth review video. Delve into the features and functionalities to assess whether Asana's free offering stands out as a superior option compared to Monday.com. Whether you're a solo entrepreneur, freelancer, or a small team, this video provides valuable insights to help you determine if the Asana Free Version is the right fit for your project management needs. Watch now to gain a comprehensive understanding of Asana's offerings and make an informed decision for your team's productivity in 2024.
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Asana Free Version Review Better Than Monday.com
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Hey guys, welcome back! In this video, we will be doing a quick review of Asana
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and how it stacks up against Monday.com. Now, we're going to look primarily at the free plans
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of both of these platforms. I'll be going a little bit in depth into Asana, the different features
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and how you can use them. So, let's get into it. Now, the first thing as you guys can see on the
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left panel over here, we have the personal plan on Asana that is available for free. You don't
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have to provide any kind of credit info for this, and you don't have like a trial period. You can
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just use this free forever. Then, in this, you get unlimited essentials. So, you can track as many
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project tasks, activity logs, storage, and comments as you require. Then, you have three basic project
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views. So, you have a list view, a board view, and a calendar view. You have some security essentials
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and free integrations with everyday work apps, including Google, Microsoft, Slack, and more. Keep
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in mind that these are only everyday work apps. So, these are limited in terms of, you know, multiple
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different tools. So, maybe connecting a more difficult tool like MailChimp or something else
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is going to be a premium feature on Asana. Then, you have basic reporting and community support
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Now, if I was to compare this word for word with the Monday.com free plan, they have up to three
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boards that you can create on your free plan. Then, you have unlimited documentation, as well as over
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200 template, eight column types, as well as iOS and Android apps. Now, one thing I don't like about
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Monday.com is that they don't offer you calendar views on your free plan, and you also don't have
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accessibility to a lot of integrations at all, or any integrations for that matter. You can't really
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integrate a lot of third-party apps on the free plan of Monday. So, that's why I recommend Asana
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to a lot of people. Although it's not visually as dynamic as Monday.com, it is still a great tool to
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use, especially considering how it's packed with the essentials that you would require for project
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management. Now, let's actually look into Asana's dashboard. So, this is our dashboard over here
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On your top, you have a home section, my task section, which will show you all of the tasks that
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are assigned to you. Then, you will have your inbox where you can, you know, forward messages and take
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a look at the current tasks for your day. Then, you have your reporting features, which include your
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completed tasks, overdue tasks, total tasks, as well. And they also give you a visual element for you to be
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able to see how much progress you have made. Then, if you go into portfolios over here, this is a
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premium feature. Now, portfolios help you in managing workload across multiple different people
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So, if you're working in a team, and you're working for a larger project, and you want to
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manage your initiatives for multiple different people, it's a good option to try out portfolios
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on Asana. However, keep in mind, this is a premium feature. Now, next up, you have your goals section
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which is a free to use feature, which I really love about Asana, as well. It has the capabilities
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for you to set milestones, and those milestones will help you in achieving a specific mission
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So, you can add an individual goal. Let's say it's to reach 100k subs. Then, you will have the owner
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of the goal, and then you have the time period for when you want to complete that. So, let's say I
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want to complete it in the next time period, so for the next year. That's our goal. And then, we have
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our privacy. If you want this to be a public goal that the entire company or people in the workspace
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can see, or if I want this to be a private goal, and then I can include multiple different members
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to this goal. Then, you will have your update method if you want this to be manual or automatic
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Then, you will have your measurement. So, let's say it's going to be measured in percentage number
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or currency. This is going to be measured in numbers, and let's say our current subs are 50k
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and our target value is 100k, like this. So, I'm gonna leave the k out, but let's say it's
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50,000 like this, 50,000 like this, and 100,000. So, we have 50,000 as our current value and 100k
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as our target value, and I can save this goal over here. Now, in this goal, you can actually create
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sub goals. So, you can add a description about the goal as well as sub goals, and you can connect your
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related work. So, if I have a YouTube project management board where I'm managing my YouTube
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content, so I can connect the relevant website or, you know, my relevant projects to this particular
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goal. Then, at this goal, you even have a status that you can set, and you have your accountable team
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So, the accountable team for this goal is going to be the people present in this workspace
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Now, after that, you can actually go into your actual project section. So, let's actually build a
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board for our YouTube channel, let's say, for achieving this goal. So, I would click on new
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project or portfolio, and I'll build a new project over here. Now, you can use a spreadsheet, a
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template, and Asana has some amazing workflow templates that can help you in building a smooth
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and effective workflow. Now, going into the project section, I'm going to click on new project, and
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I'm going to use a blank project for this, and for this, we're going to be adding YouTube channel
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management like this, and then we are going to make it private to our work, public to our workspace
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and then you have your default view. So, I want a board default view, and then I'm going to click on
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create project over here. Now, I can go back into goals, and I will go into this particular goal
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and I'm going to add the related work, and this is going to be the related work
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Now, going back into our initial board, now in our board, we have multiple different
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segregations. So, you guys can see you have an overview section, and in your overview, you will
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have a brief description, project roles, as well as connected goals and portfolios, as well as any key
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resources. Then, you have your list view that is yours, you know, it can be your default view if
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you want. Then, we have our board view over here, and I can rename these sections into different
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categories. So, let's say this is going to be upcoming content or approved ideas, upcoming
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content, and then we might have, let's say this is going to be content in the making, in progress
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and then let's say this is called completed content, and then let's say we have another
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segregation, which might be completed content, and then uploaded content like this. So, you can
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create multiple different sections, and then within each section, you can write a task. So, let's say
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the content in progress is maybe something like, let's say we are giveaway or recording like a
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giveaway, and then within each task, if you open up the task, you can add a particular member that
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is assigned to complete that task. You can also add a due date for that task, so by which
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time should that be completed. Then, you will have your project as well as your project section that
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is present in. Then, you can also add more information about this project as well as a dependency. So, a
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dependency is going to be an initial task that is meant to be completed before you get into completing
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this task, and then you have your description and comments that people can leave. So, all of these
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features are available for free on monday.com. You don't have to pay to get a list view, a board view
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or a calendar view. Plus, you get a basic overview and you're able to link your goals and manage your
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workflow effectively. Now, I personally think that Asana's free plan is a very decent project
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manager and can help you in managing your work as well as your business directly in their application
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So, I hope you guys found this video helpful and you are now able to make a better informed decision
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with using monday.com, and if you found this video helpful, make sure to leave a like and subscribe
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to our YouTube channel, and if you have any questions or queries, leave those in the comment
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box down below. I would love to know what you guys have to say
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