create Asana tasks from Outlook emails
O2Asana - Outlook to Asana
turn emails into Asana tasks, without the hassle
Overview
Do you get emails that you need to turn into Asana tasks?
And add notes before creating them?
And assign them to someone else?
O2Asana (aka Outlook to Asana) is an add-in for Outlook to create tasks in Asana straight from Outlook, including the content of the email you’re looking at. Use lightning fast shorthand notation to assign to someone, choose the project, set the due date and more!
O2Asana even supports Sublime-style fuzzy matching to minimize typing.
Simple Example
Text Entered
Review budget|Why are office supplies so high? #tomorrow @jeff !Finance
Created task
- Task Name: Review Budget
- Task Notes: Why are office supplies so high? (and copy of email attached)
- Due Date: <tomorrow’s date>
- Project: Finance
- Assignee: user Jeff
See How to Use for full syntax
install
Currently in closed beta
Email info@o2asana.com to request an invite. Instructions below will apply to beta users and following general release to the Office App Store.
Install from Office App Store
O2Asana supports Outlook 2013 and higher and Office 365. Outlook for iOS should be supported but has not been tested.
Desktop Outlook
- Open an email in the reading pane
- Mac
- Immediately above the email, click “Manage Add-ins…”
- Windows
- Immediately above the email on the add-in bar, click the shopping bag icon on the right
- Click the plus sign followed by “Add from the Office Store”
- Search for O2Asana to find the add-in, and click Add.
Outlook 365
- Open an email in the reading pane
- Immediately above the email, click the shopping bag icon to open the Office Add-in Store
- Search for O2Asana to find the add-in, and click Add.
Open add-in in Outlook
Once the add-in is installed, it is available from the add-in menu above the email reading pane.
how to use
Shorthand syntax
<task name>|<task notes> @<assignee> #<due date> !<projects> $<tags> %<followers> *<workspace>
Shorthand reference
All attributes (including task name and notes) are optional
- Task name: Enter a task name, or leave blank to use email subject line
- Task notes: Separate from task name with pipe (|) character. Current email will automatically be inserted after any notes. If you’re not entering a task name, just start with a pipe. Multi line notes are supported.
- Assignee: @ followed by a user’s name or email adddress, or “me” for yourself. User must already be part of your Asana workspace.
- Due Date: # followed by one of the following: today, tomorrow, monday, tuesday, etc. Additional shortcuts: tod, tom, mon, tue, etc.
- Projects: ! followed by one or more projects (separate with commas)
- Tags: ^ followed by one or more tags (separate with commas)
- Followers: % followed by one or more users (see assignee for how to reference users)
- Workspace: * followed by a workspace name (optional, defaults to last used; not needed if only one workspace in your account)
Email content
Email content (subject, from, to, body, date) is always included in the task notes after any notes you enter.
Fuzzy matching
Fuzzy matching is supported on Assignee, Projects, Tags, Followers, Workspace.
Fuzzy matching Examples:
- Task can be assigned to Vincent Van Gogh with ‘@vvg’ (Vincent Van Gogh)
- Task can be assigned to vince@valiantgroup.com with ‘@vvalcom’ (vince@valiantgroup.com)
- Task can be tagged with (existing tags) “Version 1.0.1” and “bug” with ‘^v101,bg’ (Version 1.0.1,bug)
Full examples
Example 1
Shorthand
Investigate crash on home page @me #tod ^bug,lch %johnd
Created task
Task name: Investigate crash on home page
Task notes: <email content only>
Assignee: <yourself>
Due Date: <today>
Tags: bug, launch (existing tags)
Followers: John D Rockefeller (existing user)
Example 2
Shorthand
|- investigate user's error
- inform customer service of issue<br>
- let me know suggested fix
@jan #tue
Created task
Task name: <email subject line>
Assignee: janet@o2asana.com (existing user)
Due Date: <upcoming Tuesday>
Task notes:
- investigate user’s error
- inform customer service of issue
- let me know suggested fix
- <email content >
roadmap
O2Asana is free while in beta. Please send suggestions to info [at] o2asana.com.
Future Development
- Include email attachments with task
- More date options (e.g. next tuesday)
Support
Support
This site provides complete documentation for O2Asana. If you have additional questions not addressed here, contact jason [at] aptisapps.com
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