Christmas Already? How I Use Asana to Make the Holidays Saner (and Actually Fun)
Last week I started using my Asana Christmas project template. I can’t believe it’s that time again already! But here we are—calendars filling, jingles jingling, and brain space shrinking. So I flip the switch on my holiday hub inside Asana and immediately feel lighter.
Why a Christmas project in Asana?
Because the holidays are a project. There are moving parts, deadlines, dependencies, people to coordinate, and a million tiny decisions that live rent-free in your head unless you give them a home.
Here’s what I track:
Gift ideas lists
Which gifts are purchased
Which gifts are wrapped
Sending out Christmas cards
Events I’m planning to attend
General to-dos
And more!
The Setup That Saves My Sanity
Inside the project, I create sections for Gifts, Cards, Events, and General. Each person on my gift list is its own task with subtasks for ideas, budget, purchase, and wrapped. Cards get a mini workflow (design/print, addresses, stamps, mail). Events live in their own section with due dates and notes for RSVPs, childcare, outfits—yes, even “find the mittens.”
The magic is centralization. Instead of 17 notes apps, 3 sticky pads, and a “hope I remember” strategy, I have one dashboard that tells me what’s next.
The Best Part—Templating Your People
The best part is that after you use it once, you can template your personal list of people you need to buy gifts for each year. Next December, you duplicate the project and your people are already there. Adjust for life changes, update the template, and boom—you’ve saved yourself hours and a few mental spirals. It’s great for your mental energy because you don’t have to recreate the list or wonder who you forgot.
Pro tip: Add custom fields for budget and status (Idea / Purchased / Wrapped). Use rules to auto-move tasks as statuses change.
Start Now, Thank Yourself Later
If you don’t have a place for this already, I highly recommend you start. It can be difficult to know how to set it all up… which is why I’m pumped to hand over my templates to save you that precious time and mental energy. I bundled this Christmas project with four other personal templates so you can get organized faster.
TL;DR:
Holidays are a project—treat them like one.
Track gifts, cards, events, and general to-dos in one Asana project.
Template your gift list people once and reuse it every year.
Save hours and brain space with a ready-to-use setup.
Ready to make December calmer?
Grab my Personal Asana Template Bundle (including the Christmas project) here
