Asana vs MyLifeOrganized

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.

They're using google groups, but they're really responsive and friendly, also to beginners.

If you have a complicated to do list, this app can organize it into group of items. In fact, this is the main feature of the software.

The text search is excellent. It comes with some default views, but you can create custom hierarchical and flat views, using some quite powerful logic, to focus on tasks by almost any criteria you can think of.

Create custom views by numerous filters and triggers.

Quickly and deeply manage your tasks .

Each Context may include other Contexts. This can form a hierarchy (or even a net) of contexts. For example Contexts "Phone" and "Internet" can be included to the Context "Work" as well as to the Context "Home".

A Context may have a schedule: specific times during which it is open or closed. If a Context you select as a To-Do filter is closed at the moment, the tasks associated with this Context will not be shown in the To-Do list.

This feature help user to visualize their daily workload in a graph form (mobile version) , so it assist to plan future tasks and events in a sense of work/life balance. Just simply connect to google calendar, you could view your events and tasks, and plan effectively.

MLO can parse or interpret the text you enter in Inbox on mobile and in some text input fields on Windows. For example you can enter "in 30 min" or "next Friday at 2pm" in date and time pickers. In Rapid Task Entry dialog you can even type: "Call Bob about the party tomorrow at 3pm remind 10 min in advance". The parameters of the task will be converted from the text automatically.

If you have a complicated to do list, this app can organize it into group of items. In fact, this is the main feature of the software.

MLO (Window) can print PocketMod, which is a A4 paper that you can fold into a small booklet. Each page of this booklet can contain different information you select from the MLO app. It's very helpful especially on the occasion that you need to rely on paper only, such as camping, retreat, outdoor gaming activity, etc.

It is much cheaper than subscription-based apps . MLO license doesn't expire. Upgrade is optional and offered with a discount.

Easy to create your own workflow.

Robust implementation of recurrence options. You can set it to repeat every N day every N months, repeat N day after the completion the main task can recurs once all/any subtasks are completed, and other.

MLO automatically sorts the tasks in To-Do based on user input.

Excellent for organizing in the GTD style of David Allen.