An Asana alternative for docs and project work.
Looking for an Asana alternative that gives documentation and tracked work a shared home? Notework combines project organization, tasks, and other structured work with a dedicated place for specs, notes, policies, and team knowledge.
Asana is built around managing work. Notework gives the work and its context equal footing.
Asana centers its project-management experience on projects and tasks, with additional tools for reporting, goals, resource management, and workflow automation. Its current Notes also support independent written content that can be associated with projects, tasks, teams, and other Asana objects.
| Feature | Asana | Notework |
|---|---|---|
| Core model | Tasks and projects, with portfolios and goals for higher-level coordination | Pages, Projects, and Collections for docs and structured work |
| Project management | Tasks, owners, due dates, dependencies, custom fields, milestones, and project views | Projects group related documentation and tracked work in one place |
| Documentation | Project briefs and shareable Notes add written context and knowledge | Pages are a first-class workspace object for specs, notes, policies, handbooks, and reference docs |
| Views | List, board, calendar, timeline, and Gantt views for projects | Table, board, list, calendar, timeline, and gallery views for Collections |
| Cross-project planning | Portfolios, goals, reporting, and resource management | A simpler project structure centered on the work and knowledge that belong together |
| Structured work | Tasks and projects can be configured with fields, rules, and workflows | Collections can organize tasks, issues, roadmaps, calendars, and other tracked work |
Workspace
12 projectsEngineering wiki
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Q4 product roadmap
23 pages · Open
Brand & design
31 pages · Open
People ops
12 pages · Private
Finance
8 pages · Private
The question is not whether Asana can hold context. It is how much of your workspace starts with project management.
Asana is designed to organize work that needs to get done.
Tasks have owners and due dates. Projects bring those tasks together. Teams can add dependencies, custom fields, milestones, different project views, status updates, portfolios, goals, reporting, and resource planning as their needs grow.
Asana also gives teams ways to keep written context close to that work. Project briefs explain the what and why of a project, and Notes can capture meeting notes, decisions, reference information, and other longer-form content.
That can be exactly the right model when project management is the center of the workspace.
But some teams need documentation and tracked work to feel equally fundamental.
Built for teams whose workspace is more than a project plan.
Keep project context and project work in the same place
A Notework Project can hold the Pages and Collections that belong to the same product, team, initiative, or workstream.
A project can include a spec, meeting notes, decisions, a task tracker, and a roadmap without turning all of that information into one project-management hierarchy.
Give longer-lived knowledge somewhere to stay
Specs, policies, handbooks, processes, and reference material do not stop being useful when a particular task is finished.
Notework Pages give that knowledge its own place while keeping it close to the structured work it supports.
Use structure without building a full work-management system
Collections handle tasks, issues, calendars, roadmaps, and other work that benefits from properties and different views.
For teams that do not need portfolio planning, workload management, goals, advanced reporting, and extensive workflow automation, that can mean fewer layers to configure and maintain. Asana goes considerably further in those work-management areas.
Simpler pricing for smaller teams.
Two plans and a flat workspace price, with seats that cost the same whether you add them today or next year. The whole table fits on one page.
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