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I've spent the last couple days trying to find a way to time Asana tasks ... I never want to leave the Asana UI to do time tracking, I want to be able track st

I've spent the last couple days trying to find a way to time Asana tasks ... I never want to leave the Asana UI to do time tracking, I want to be able track stuff from multiple organizations / workspaces / projects, I want to be able to make estimates, and I want to see progress towards my estimate wherever relevant. Have tried Hubstaff, Everhour, Harvest, Timecamp, Timeneye, Toggle. They all suck and cost 5x what this costs ... Can anybody suggest another? I'm ready to give up and tiny Chrome extension ... but that's a lot of work!

dbg31415 10y ago
Harvest and Asana play nice together. Are use Harvest to track my time in Asana. I know you said you tried it, but... it works great for me. The Chrome extension for Harvest works with just about everything. https://asana.com/apps/harvest https://asana.com/apps/harvest
- barnum 10y ago
  Interesting thanks. It's a shame that Asana doesn't allow one to estimate time for tasks. It would be useful for fixed-price projects, to both make initial project quotes, and later see how you're doing against your estimates. I had a look at Paydirt which shows time spent vs estimated for tasks and projects, but it's not as nicely integrated with a task board like Asana. You can import Trello projects but it's a one-way import, not that integrated. A well integrated app for project board / estimates / time tracking / invoicing would be fantastic.
- superquest 10y ago
  Good to know. Thanks. Harvest is just suuuuchhhh overkill for what I need -- timer & estimate buttons that writes to a custom property on Asana task objects. And after mapping my projects over to Harvest I encountered a bug that broke the whole thing. Opened a ticket ...
  - dbg31415 10y ago
    Harvest has a bunch of import tools, it also has some CSV import tools that can make setup easier. You don't have to use burn down features if you don't want.
    - superquest 10y ago
      (I'd send this offline but you haven't listed a contact method in your bio) Do I need to manually duplicate Asana tasks into Harvest tasks before I can start tracking? This is problematic since I really try to break everything into many bite-sized (sub)tasks ...
      - dbg31415 10y ago
        It will automatically sync over tasks with time added to them in Asana.

dbg31415 10y ago

Harvest and Asana play nice together. Are use Harvest to track my time in Asana. I know you said you tried it, but... it works great for me. The Chrome extension for Harvest works with just about everything. https://asana.com/apps/harvest https://asana.com/apps/harvest

barnum 10y ago
Interesting thanks. It's a shame that Asana doesn't allow one to estimate time for tasks. It would be useful for fixed-price projects, to both make initial project quotes, and later see how you're doing against your estimates. I had a look at Paydirt which shows time spent vs estimated for tasks and projects, but it's not as nicely integrated with a task board like Asana. You can import Trello projects but it's a one-way import, not that integrated. A well integrated app for project board / estimates / time tracking / invoicing would be fantastic.
superquest 10y ago
Good to know. Thanks. Harvest is just suuuuchhhh overkill for what I need -- timer & estimate buttons that writes to a custom property on Asana task objects. And after mapping my projects over to Harvest I encountered a bug that broke the whole thing. Opened a ticket ...
- dbg31415 10y ago
  Harvest has a bunch of import tools, it also has some CSV import tools that can make setup easier. You don't have to use burn down features if you don't want.
  - superquest 10y ago
    (I'd send this offline but you haven't listed a contact method in your bio) Do I need to manually duplicate Asana tasks into Harvest tasks before I can start tracking? This is problematic since I really try to break everything into many bite-sized (sub)tasks ...
    - dbg31415 10y ago
      It will automatically sync over tasks with time added to them in Asana.