Asana

Connect Asana to give your assistant access to your projects, tasks, and team collaboration.

What’s included

With Asana connected, your assistant can:

View workspaces and projects — Browse your Asana organization
Track tasks — List, view, create, and update tasks
Add comments — Participate in task discussions
Get project details — Access project information and progress

Connecting Asana

Go to Integrations
Find Asana and click Connect
Authorize Town in Asana
Return to Town

Town requests access to your Asana workspace. You can revoke access anytime from your Asana account settings.

What your assistant can do

Capability	What it does	Makes changes?
List workspaces	See your Asana workspaces	No
List projects	View projects in a workspace	No
Get project details	See project information	No
List tasks	Find tasks with filters	No
Get task details	View full task information	No
Create task	Add a new task to a project	Yes
Update task	Modify task details (assignee, due date, status, etc.)	Yes
Add comment	Comment on a task	Yes

Use cases

Email to task

Create Asana tasks from emails:

Forward action items to your assistant
Automatically create tasks with email context
Set due dates and assign to the right person

Daily task summary

Get a summary of your Asana workload:

Tasks assigned to you that are due soon
Overdue tasks needing attention
Recently updated tasks

Meeting follow-ups

Turn meeting action items into tasks:

After a meeting, create tasks for each action item
Assign tasks to attendees
Set due dates based on discussion

Cross-tool tracking

Combine Asana with other integrations:

Create Asana tasks from Linear issues
Link email threads to Asana tasks
Send Slack reminders about upcoming due dates

Example workflow

A workflow that creates tasks from forwarded emails:


When I forward an email to my assistant with "task:" in the subject:
1. Extract the task name from after "task:"
2. Use the email body as the task description
3. Create the task in my default project
4. Set it due in 7 days
5. Reply with a link to the created task

Best practices

Use approval-required for creating tasks. Creating tasks affects your team’s workload. Review before creating.

Specify the project. When creating tasks, tell your workflow which project to add them to.

Include context. When creating tasks from emails, include relevant email context so the task has all the information needed.