SaneBox vs Asana: Which is a better fit?

John S.: Hey, I'm John. I'm a CEO. I give SaneBox of five out of five stars. For more information, click below. So before SaneBox, I was completely overwhelmed with email to the point where I literally tried to quit email. And told everyone I was done with it, to write me a letter or call me, or text me or something. And that didn't work. Email is just so much good about it that I couldn't give it up. I think I lasted three weeks off of email and a friend of mine recommended SaneBox. And he told me that could help me train my email where to go, to read later like a newsletter. Or most importantly in my case, where the junk would go, of course, to the black hole where I would never see it again. So SaneBox really saved me from getting totally away from email and I'm a big fan. So SaneBox was an easy choice for me. First of all, someone I trusted told me it was a no brainer. That if I was getting frustrated with my email to try SaneBox. And a big reason was there was no big commitment. I think it was under five bucks a month and I don't think there was any even a yearly commitment. So it was the easiest kind of subscription I've ever tried. And of course at this point, I would never get away from it. Getting started was I would say the hardest part of SaneBox in that I had to have someone help me. Our IT people kind of help us get it all on our computers and get a little bit of training on it. And then of course as the emails come in, you have to instead of just deleting them like I used to do or drag them to my own folder, I had to take just a little more time to put it in a black hole or to do a little training with it. But it took, I would say about a month before that work started to pay off and things started to happen automatically, which is of course what we want to see. Anyone considering SaneBox, I would say just try it, right? There's no big barrier to entry. You can always undo it if you hate it. But all the people that I know that have tried it have kept it. And just the one feature of taking all your junk to the black hole automatically, which to me that's hundreds of emails a week that I don't see anymore, is worth it. And there's a lot more too in terms of dragging things to your sub folders automatically. But yeah, I would say just get it and know that if for some reason it doesn't work for you can undo the whole thing. And it's not a big financial commitment either.

Ellenore K.: My name is Ellenore. I'm an administrative assistant at Equipter, which is a manufacturing company with about 70 employees, and I would give Asana five stars. Well, we are mostly an in-person company, but we have three separate buildings that people are working in. It's a fairly large campus, and people are working in many different departments, and we needed a way to bring everybody's work together so we could all see what we're working on, be able to assign things to other people, and mostly just keep everyone on the same page, because without some kind of system like this, it's chaos. I think the biggest thing that I appreciate about Asana is the visibility that it gives me for other teams and for my team. I think without this, it's just me running around to people's desks, asking questions in different buildings, making sure that we're all understanding things. With Asana, it means that I sort of have eyes on what everyone is doing and can keep track of how I need to fit into that. We have had some limited issues with our dependencies on recurring tasks. We have a fairly substantial, a large task that happens about once a week, and for a while we had dependencies set up so that we couldn't move ahead too quickly in the process before the earlier tasks were done. After a couple of months of that working with one of the more recent updates, we lost the ability to do that. That's a little unfortunate. It's not a huge deal because the people who were involved know what has to happen first, but that was a nice feature that we liked that hasn't been working so well for us recently.