How to sync Asana with Google Calendar

Can Asana integrate with Google Calendar?

Yes, Asana offers a native integration with Google calendar. With this integration, you can sync any project or My Tasks list to your Google Calendar. Tasks with due dates will show up as all day events. You can click into each event to go to the task in Asana.

This is a one way integration, so you still have to complete your tasks in Asana and wait for them to get synced back to Google Calendar.

Why is Jargonfly a better way to sync Asana Tasks to Google Calendar?

Jargonfly offers a better integration, by using a bi-directional sync of Google Tasks with Asana Tasks. As Asana tasks are synced to Google, they will show up in your Google Calendar. Tasks can be updated and completed in either Asana or Google Tasks and be automatically synced in the other system.

What are the benefits of integrating Asana with Google Calendar?

By syncing Google Calendar with Asana you can simplify your planning process. Having all of your tasks and events in one place helps keeps everything organized so that scheduling conflicts are avoided. Plus, viewing task deadlines as calendar events makes it easy to prioritize work and make sure none slip through the cracks!

How to connect Asana + Google Calendar

There are several choices to connect Asana and Google Calendar:

The native integration that Asana provides, but this is only viable if you are ok with a one way delayed sync from Asana to Google Calendar. Plus the other limitations listed below.
Use a third party tool like Zapier to integrate from Asana to Google Calendar. These integrations work by having a trigger and a result, like adding a new task and syncing that to Google Calendar. They are not two-way or bi-directional syncs unless you setup multiple integrations.
Use Jargonfly to do a bi-directional sync from Asana tasks to Google tasks, the Google tasks will then show up natively in Google Calendar. When you sync google tasks with asana in this way you get calendar syncing and task syncing together.

Asana and Google Calendar syncing limitations

This is one-way sync from Asana to your calendar. Updates to your calendar will not be reflected in Asana.

Tasks must have a due date to sync

After the first sync with Google Calendar, it will take up to 24 hours for a refresh and for any additional task information to appear. After this, it is up to Google’s software as to how often it updates the calendar.

Benefits of syncing Asana Tasks with Google Tasks

Asana is a powerful project management tool, but what if you or some of your team are already using Google Tasks? Is there any way to integrate the two systems? The answer is yes! You can easily sync your Google Tasks with Asana, allowing you to take advantage of all of the features of both services.

There are a few reasons why you might want to sync your Google Tasks with Asana:

If you use both Google Tasks and Asana to manage your tasks, syncing google tasks with asana allows you to see all of your tasks in a single location.
If you’re working on a team and some of the team use Google Tasks and some use Asana to manage their tasks, syncing the two allows everyone to see the same task list, which can improve collaboration and coordination.
Google calendar automatically shows Google tasks in the calendar and in fact you can create tasks right from Google calendar. This level of integration is hard to replicate with any other calendar sync solution.

Asana + Google Calendar 2 way sync

Google calendar is tightly integrated with Google tasks, to where you can manage tasks directly from Google calendar. When Google tasks are completed they are removed from the calendar and when a new task is added it shows up right away on the Google calendar.

By using Jargonfly to create a bi-directional-sync from Google tasks to Asana tasks, the Calendar integration is provided by allowing closing tasks from Google calendar to automatically sync to Asana.

Syncing Google Tasks to Asana

If you prefer to work directly in Google Tasks but want all of your tasks stored in one spot (Asana), then syncing them is a great solution for keeping everything organized! Once connected, any new tasks that you create in either program will automatically sync across both platforms so that all of your information is always up-to-date. You can add a Google task from the Google calendar, then it will sync google calendar with Asana through the task.