Asana

Asana is most often thought of as a business-focused project management tool that some users also use for their personal and household use. Asana can help you create and organize tasks, set deadlines with reminders, and look back at your achievements.

For people who want a "heavyweight" approach to tasks and household organization, Asana is a friendly platform. While no task management tool will automatically save you time or effort, it can help couples share information and stay accountable to one another more effectively, collectively leading to savings.

Because Asana has a subscription cost, you're not likely to see overall savings unless you adopt it fully. We suggest that couples start with a free trial when they're ready to really dedicated a few weeks to adopting the platform. Asana isn't something you ease into.

Asana's business model mostly focuses on project management for businesses, so if you use it for your household, you can be pretty certain the tool isn't going away. That being said, individuals and households aren't their main focus either, so more and more of their features focus on team use cases and organizing across an entire enterprise.

When you put in place a full project management toolset for your household, you get the benefit of a unified system for reminders, organization, and even storing key information. For some households, that works great, for others, it's too heavy. Many professionals who have used Asana at work have taken it home for managing their life admin, creating major time and effort savings. It's on the Tools of Wayshaping for these key reasons...

1. Strong mobile app. Asana shines for its ability to let you manage your tasks and to-do's on your phone. Since many project management tools are focused heavily on workers at a desktop, mobile apps often underperform, but Asana's is strong, with 4.7 stars on the Apple App Store and 4.4 on Google Play.
2. Control over notifications. Project management tools can be annoying if they just fill your mail inbox with useless reminders. Asana gives you a lot of control over how it utilizes your attention, enabling you to tailor it.
3. Guided, prescriptive project/task setup. Asana has an emphasis on project templates, and it's general user experience guides users in how to set up a project or task for success. For many households that want to get going quickly, this is far better than "blank-canvas" tools that require some thought upfront.