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Adds the power of markdown and syntax highlighting in 23 languages to Asana's task description editor.
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Asana Markdown and Syntax Highlighting adds the power of markdown and syntax highlighting in 23 languages to Asana's task description editor.
The extension will detect when you use signature markdown syntax for headers, bold, italics, and lists in the task description editor field, and will transform the description into rich Github-Flavored-Markdown (GFM). The extension support most GFM features, including tables and inline images. Likewise, for syntax highlighting, code language is detected automatically thanks to the highlightJS project.
While this extension is very powerful and will add measurable value to their Asana use cases, there are a few limitations. It will only work in Google chrome, and will only render markdown for users who have installed the extension. The extension will also leave plain-markdown on Asana's mobile devices. Luckily, a key strength of markdown is its readability even when not rendered!
Latest reviews
- (2021-06-20) Nick Anderson: Could not get it to work at all.
- (2021-03-24) Luca Passini: Not working as of 2021.
- (2021-02-12) Francesco Munao': It doesn't work. I'm using Chrome Version 88.0.4324.150 (Official Build) (x86_64) on MacOS Catalina. I've tried to remove and add the extension again. Closed and re-opened Chrome. Open https://app.asana.com and created a new task. Adding simple markup as "# title" it doesn't translate into formatted text. Also tried to reload the Asana tab after editing task description. Nothing worked for me. Please help us, thanks.
- (2020-08-06) Eric N: Does not work as of today unfortunately
- (2019-03-05) How do you even turn it on after installing? Makes it seem like you install it then bam it just starts rendering markdown, but it is not that simple it seems...Absolutely no idea how to use this extension.
- (2018-03-27) John Schutz: Extremely helpful when using Asana. No way to consistently get formatting when pasting documents and snippets into Asana, while this allows you to edit your files with Markdown and then just paste into Asana. Works great wherever I've tried it, only downside is other collaborators need the extension to view the Markdown as you intended.