My Tasks in Asana: organize your personal task overview
My Tasks is your personal overview of everything assigned to you across all projects. This article shows how to organize that overview with sections and smart sorting, so every workday starts with a clear picture instead of a long list.
What My Tasks is
My Tasks collects every task assigned to you, from every project, in one list (see Asana helpcenter: My Tasks ). It's the best place to start your day: one glance shows what's on your plate, what's due, and what can wait.
The layout is yours alone. The sections and sorting you set up here don't change how colleagues see their own My Tasks, so organize it in whatever way matches how you plan.
Create your own sections
Group tasks into sections that mirror how you plan your work, for example Today, This week, Later/someday, or a Waiting section for tasks blocked on someone else (see Asana helpcenter: Sections in My Tasks ).
Newly assigned tasks land in your top section, so treat that top section as an inbox: triage it once a day and drag each task into the section where it belongs.
This way of working follows the Getting Things Done (GTD) approach: capture everything in one trusted place, triage it regularly, and pick your next task from a clear overview instead of from memory. Curious about the background? See Asana's guide Getting Things Done (GTD) with Asana .
Section names are personal. The example below shows how to set this up:
Sort first on Priority, then on Due date
Within your sections, sort tasks first on Priority, then on Due date. This sounds obvious but is worth setting explicitly: the most important work rises to the top, and tasks of equal priority are ordered by when the work is expected. Click Sort at the top of My Tasks to set it. The Priority field itself comes from your project setup, described in Asana: getting started (Step 5) .
Don't add rules to your My Tasks
Move tasks between sections by hand instead. Asana rules draw from one organization-wide budget of automation runs per month: currently (July 2026) 250 on the Starter plan (see Asana pricing ). A personal rule that fires on every new task drains that shared budget within weeks, and then rules stop running for the whole organization. Dragging a task into a section takes one second and costs nothing.
How to create good tasks in the first place (naming, due dates, descriptions) is covered in the companion article Working in Asana: how to collaborate transparently .