Push Notifications In Our iPhone App
by Bella Kazwell and Jennifer Nan
March 4th, 2013
Today, we have released an update to our iPhone app. The new version should be rolling out to the App Store over the next couple of hours.
This new version enables push notifications, including pop-up alerts and badge counters. We’ve been testing push notifications internally for a while, and think you’ll love how they help you stay connected to your work while you’re away from our desks.
We spent a lot of time debating our approach toward push notifications. One of our core goals is to improve team’s communication. Part of this means keeping you up-to-date with the latest information about your projects. At the same time, it also means not overwhelming you with too many updates.
So instead of sending you alerts with every single new thing that happens in Asana, we selected the most important events. We pop up alerts when you get assigned or unassigned a task, have a task due today, or have comments or task status updates on tasks you’re following. If you find that you’d rather get fewer alerts, you can always go to the iPhone’s Settings, then select Asana, then change the types of alerts you receive.
Likewise, instead of a badge count of all unread items in your Inbox that nags you until you completely clear out all unprocessed items, our badge count shows you how many items you’ve missed across all your Inboxes while you were away. Going to your Inbox to see your new items (in the mobile app or on desktop) will make the badge disappear.
Asana’s vision is to help you and your team get organized and stay on top of what needs to be done to achieve your goals. With push notifications, we hope to give you the peace-of-mind that you won’t miss anything important, regardless of where you are.
Any future plans on a Ipad Application, as was looking at purchasing a few devices primary for Asana, and wondering to go with Ipad or Minis, or Ipod Touches, if it something we will see summer time or earlier would go with the Ipads, just looking so see what the Pipeline shows.
Thanks for your time
Also would LOVE to see the sub-tasks added on!
Also, will there be any way in the near future to be able to add time alerts as well to due dates? Perhaps this could then replace the inbuilt reminders app?
*Sigh*, alright… I’ll ask. Since nobody else has… when we gonna see this on Android?
+1
There is no timeline at the moment, but this is definitely on our minds too. Bella, the engineer who worked on this, is an Android user herself and would like to use the functionality she built!
Hi, I would like sound in the push notification :-)
+1
Now it seems to be not so usuful as it could be…
Nice.. but having a date AND time would be best!
thanks..
Thank you for your constant focus on product improvements and attitude to helping us making our work easier!
It would be a very valuable and (hope) a simple improvement — to add a “swipe left-to-right” gesture to reveal the main menu. Current functionality to use the top left “3-bars” button is really inconvenient (((
Will be waiting for the next update of the mobile app!!!
hey asana is doing a great job! hats off man! i really admire you guys …
by the way are you going to change the API too?
I am totally in LOVE with asana but the off line app performance is very disappointing. I am certainly not going to stop using asana but I keep looking for other short term mobile alternatives.
Also being use the web version on an ipad would be more useful.
Android!