Upvoter for Asana

Quickly finds and increments integer custom fields in Asana tasks from the Chrome Omnibox or as an Alfred workflow.

This is useful if you're trying to track pain points in a backlog - just throw a backlog feature task a quick upvote in real time as you suffer through missing the feature, then go back later and take on the most upvoted tasks!

Using Chrome Extension

Go to the URL bar ("Chrome Omnibox"), and type 'uv', a space, then search for an Asana task. You should see them pop up as suggestions. Pick one, and your custom field will be uploaded!

Also, if you mark a task done which has dependent upvotable tasks, you can click on the dependent task links to upvote those tasks. See Shortcuts for Asana for keyboard shortcuts to hit those links!

Using Alfred Workflow

Similarly, activate Alfred, then type 'uv', a space, then type 'uv', a space, then search for an Asana task. You should see them pop up as suggestions. Pick one, and your custom field will be uploaded!

Installing Chrome Extension

Installing Alfred workflow

Download and double click the latest release's .alfredworkflow file.

Chrome Extension Configuration

1. Create a custom field with field type "Number".
2. Check the 'Add to field library' box.
3. Make sure the field is added to the projects you want to be able to upvote tasks in.
4. Verify you can see the field in the tasks you want to be able to upvote.
5. Create a new "Personal access token" in Asana
6. Open the options screen for the extension (… | More Tools | Extensions | Upvoter for Asana | Details | Extension options)
7. Paste in your personal access token.
8. Provide the rest of the configuration and hit 'Save'

Alfred Workflow Configuration

1. Create a new "Personal access token" in Asana
2. Alfred | Workflows | Upvoter for Asana | [≈] icon in upper right
3. Add values to Workflow Environment Variables section
4. Save

Legal

Not created, maintained, reviewed, approved, or endorsed by Asana, Inc.

Contributions

This project, as with all others, rests on the shoulders of a broad ecosystem supported by many volunteers doing thankless work, along with specific contributors.

In particular I'd like to call out:

• Audrey Roy Greenfeld for the cookiecutter tool and associated examples, which keep my many projects building with shared boilerplate with a minimum of fuss.
• Sindre Sorhus and Sam Verschueren for the alfy tool, which provided an easy on-ramp to integrating this project with Alfred.