How to Create Timesheets from Asana Tasks

Asana's Timesheet Gap

Asana is excellent at organizing work — projects, tasks, sections, milestones. But when it comes to time tracking and timesheet generation, there's a notable gap.

Asana added basic time tracking in 2024, but there's no built-in way to export tracked time as a formatted timesheet. If your client or finance team needs an Excel file, you need a workaround.

Method 1: Manual Export + Formatting

Asana lets you export project data as CSV:

1. Open your project in Asana
2. Click the dropdown arrow next to the project name
3. Select Export → CSV
4. Open in Excel and filter/format

What exports: Task name, assignee, due date, section, completion status, custom fields What doesn't export well: Time tracking data, subtask details, actual hours

You'll need to manually add time columns and fill in hours from memory or Asana's time tracking sidebar. This defeats the purpose.

Method 2: Asana + Harvest (or Everhour)

The most popular approach is pairing Asana with a dedicated time tracker:

Harvest: Official Asana integration. Start timers directly from Asana tasks. Harvest handles the timesheet and invoicing.

Everhour: Browser extension that adds timer buttons inside Asana. More affordable than Harvest.

Pros: Deep integration, runs inside Asana UI, invoicing features
Cons: Additional subscription ($10+/user/month), another tool to manage

Method 3: Pair Asana with Your Calendar

A direct Asana connection is on the Stintt roadmap — the Asana integration page is marked coming soon, so there is no Asana pull to set up yet.

In the meantime, the practical combination for Asana users is to let Asana hold the task structure and let your calendar carry the hours:

1. Connect Google Calendar or Microsoft Teams
2. Block time for Asana work on your calendar, naming the block after the task
3. Select a date range and preview the entries
4. Export to Excel with your preferred template

This will not reconstruct time you never blocked out. It does cover the meetings and scheduled work Asana's own exports miss entirely, and it needs no extra subscription.

Making Asana Work for Timesheets

1. Use custom fields for time estimates. Create a "Hours Estimated" number field. Compare against actual time to improve future planning.

2. Structure projects by client. One project per client makes timesheet filtering straightforward.

3. Use sections as categories. "Design", "Development", "QA" sections map naturally to timesheet categories.

4. Complete tasks when done. Completed tasks with due dates give you a timeline of work — useful for retroactive timesheet creation even without explicit time tracking.

Asana vs. Other Tools for Time Tracking

Feature	Asana Native	Asana + Harvest	Stintt (calendar)
Time tracking	Basic (2024+)	Full (timers)	Reads calendar events
Timesheet view	No	Yes	Yes
Excel export	CSV (raw)	Yes	Yes (formatted)
Invoicing	No	Yes	No
Direct Asana pull	—	Yes	Coming soon
Cost	Included	+$10/user/mo	Free / $9/mo

Combining Asana with Meetings

Asana captures project tasks but not meetings. For a complete timesheet, combine:

• Asana for task-level work
• Google Calendar or Teams for meetings and calls
• Export the calendar side via Stintt; export the Asana side from Asana's own CSV

This gives managers and clients a full picture — project deliverables plus meeting time. How to auto-fill a timesheet from Google Calendar walks through the calendar half.