How to Actually Use My Tasks in Asana (Setup + Daily Habit)

Most people open Asana, add a bunch of tasks to their projects, and then spend the next ten minutes trying to figure out what they're actually supposed to be working on today. Sound familiar?

Here's the thing: Asana already has the answer built in. It's called My Tasks, and it's one of the most underused features in the whole tool. Once you set it up properly and build a simple daily habit around it, it becomes your home base for the whole workday.

In this post, I'm walking you through exactly how to set it up and how to use it — including the calendar view that changed how I work every morning.

Either keep reading or watch the video below:

What Is My Tasks in Asana?

My Tasks is your personal view inside Asana. It automatically pulls together every task that's been assigned to you — from every project, every team — into one place.

Instead of opening ten different projects to piece together what's on your plate, you go to one spot and everything is already there. And here's the part I love most: it only shows you what's assigned to you. Not the whole project, not your team's tasks — just yours. For an easily distracted brain, that kind of focus matters a lot.

I've played around in ClickUp and other tools, and none of them do this quite as cleanly as Asana. ClickUp has something similar, but I had to do a lot of trial and error to get it looking and working the way I wanted. In Asana, it just works.

How to Set Up My Tasks the Right Way

My Tasks works best when your tasks have due dates. Without dates, everything piles up in a section called "Recently Assigned" — and it becomes kind of a mess. So the first step is making sure your tasks have dates on them.

When you're creating tasks inside a project, assign a due date — even a rough one. That's what tells Asana when to surface them in My Tasks.

Once you open My Tasks, you'll see it's divided into sections by default: Today, Upcoming, and Later. These are useful for manual triaging, but the view I really recommend is the calendar view.

To switch: look for the view options at the top and click Calendar. Now you can see everything laid out day by day, colour coded by project. You can drag tasks between days if your plan changes — move Tuesday's task to Thursday in two seconds. It's simple, visual, and it doesn't require a lot of thinking.

💡 If a task doesn't show up in your calendar view, it's almost always because it doesn't have a due date. Flip to list view, find it, add a date, and it'll appear.

The Daily Habit That Actually Makes This Work

Here's how I use My Tasks every morning — and it takes about five minutes.

Open My Tasks in calendar view. Look at what's sitting on today. Ask yourself: is this actually doable, or does something need to move? If you need to shuffle things around, drag them. Done.

Then as you work through the day, check things off in My Tasks as you finish them. When you mark something complete there, it marks it complete in the original project too — so you're never updating things in two places.

That's it. Open it, look at today, adjust if needed, check things off as you go. The reason this works is because you already did the heavy lifting when you set up your projects and added due dates. My Tasks is just the payoff — it's where all that behind-the-scenes structure shows up and actually helps you.

What If Your Asana Is Already a Mess?

If your Asana is a little all over the place right now — tasks without dates, projects without real structure — My Tasks won't feel like magic yet. It'll feel like a cluttered drawer.

The fix starts with the foundation. I put together a full video on how to structure your Asana setup so everything works together, including My Tasks. It's called "The 'Minimalist' Asana Setup for ADHD Entrepreneurs: Stop Over-Organizing!" and it's a great place to start if your workspace needs a reset.

And if you want the complete system — setup, daily workflow, all of it — Asana Made Simple walks through everything step by step. It's built for people who want Asana to actually work without overcomplicating it.