Asana vs WeekCal

Asana has fantastic mechanisms for dealing with team collaboration. Not only can tasks be assigned to team members, but Asana lets users follow tasks and use hyperlinks to refer to team members within a task.

The Asana task workflow within a project is broken down into "Today," "Upcoming," and "Later." The tasks themselves have the status of either done or not done. There is also a subtask feature to group tasks together. Tasks can be assigned to other team members and are stored in the "Inbox" view for processing. This replaces email for some team communication.

Teams can have private (only visible to project members) and public (visible to anyone in the team) projects. Each member can also have their own personal projects.

Tasks can be viewed in list and calendar views. It's possible to display only the tasks assigned to the user or tasks organized by project or team. Single tasks can exist in multiple projects. Lists of tasks can be divided into sections and organized in many different ways – tasks that still have to be done, tasks that have been completed, by due date, by assignee, by popularity, etc.

Expanding a task will allow adding things like subtasks, tags, and attachments, as well as comments. Users can also subscribe to a task via RSS from this view. There's a separate view specifically for attachments.

Search lets you find what you’re looking for quickly.

The tagging system enables project managers to easily filter tasks.

There are many videos, tutorials, and reference documents to help you get up and running.

Asana provides a list view and a Kanban view which can be selected if a new project is created.

Keyboard shortcuts all involve the Tab key, so it is unlikely that they will interfere with shortcuts that have already been established.

It's possible to have tasks appear in a Slack channel.

Week Calendar includes templates, which are files containing one or more events that can be duplicated from week to week. With each event, information such as address, time, or duration can be copied as well. This comes in handy for routine events like work, school, or exercise.

Week Calendar supports dropbox file attachments in collaborative calendars so other people are able to quickly see files relating to an event.

With the action menu, users can use up to 40 kinds of automated actions.

Just like with apps on the home screen, events on Week Cal can be moved with a tap and hold gesture.

Week Calendar displays a day's events just by tapping the date. The data can be tapped directly from year view.

Best thing is being able to set different colors, if you have multiple events during the day it really helps to set different colors to easily get an overview for school lessons as an example.