Asana

James Clear, Atomic Habits — Strategies for Mastering Habits

Tim Ferriss

Project management tool used by James Clear for idea capture, task management, and newsletter calendar.

Ep. 223: Could This Meeting Have Been An Email?

Cal Newport

A task board system used by Zapier for team members to share project updates in relevant tasks.

Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice

Y Combinator

A project management tool that teams at Segment can choose to use.

Ep. 216: Boosting Creative Insight With Deep Walks

Cal Newport

Company whose Work Innovation Lab implemented 'meeting doomsday' and shortened meeting protocols.

Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front

Y Combinator

A web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. Mentioned as a tool that Front can integrate with.

E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more

All-In Podcast

Project management software, compared in valuation multiples to Airtable.

Q&A with Tim Ferriss — Habits, Sleep, Journaling, Psychedelics, HRV Training, and More

Tim Ferriss

A project management tool used to track tasks related to podcast production and approvals.

India’s Fastest Growing AI Startup

Y Combinator

Project management software that Emergent's QA engineer cloned to create an internal tool. The team found Asana difficult to customize and expensive.

The Deep Life — Cal Newport

Tim Ferriss

Project management software briefly mentioned by Tim Ferriss as an alternative to Trello.

How to Get Unstuck, Do “The Work,” Take Radical Responsibility, and Reduce Drama in Your Life

Tim Ferriss

A work management platform, co-founded by Dustin Moskovitz.

Ideas, Products, Teams, and Execution with Dustin Moskovitz (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 1)

Y Combinator

Founded by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, it originated from an internal task manager at Facebook.

Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers

a16z Deep Dives

Mentioned as a company where Ryo worked, with core concepts centered around tasks and projects, which naturally limits its scope compared to more universal apps.

Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites

Y Combinator

Ultimate Guide to Managing Executive Assistants and Delegating Like a Pro — Sam Corcos (4K)

Tim Ferriss

A project management software co-founded by Dustin Moskovitz, the current CEO.

Dustin Moskovitz, Co Founder of Asana and Facebook | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss

A leading work management platform for teams, co-founded by Dustin Moskovitz, with a mission to help humanity thrive by enabling effortless team collaboration. It is used by the host's team for task management.

How To 10X Your Results | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)

Tim Ferriss

A project management software mentioned as an alternative tool for communication and task assignment.

Female Founders Conference - Mountain View

Y Combinator

A work management platform, mentioned as an example of productivity tools that originated in large tech companies and went public.

Proven Tactics to Become Creative, How to Take the Path Less Traveled, and More | Justin Gary

Tim Ferriss

A project management tool that Justin Gary's company tried but ultimately moved away from in favor of Discord.

Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media | Lex Fridman Podcast #166

Lex Fridman

A project management tool used by groups profiled by Cal Newport to reduce back-and-forth communication.

Stop Innovating (On The Wrong Things)

Y Combinator

Mentioned as having written their own programming language when they started, which is presented as an example of 'nerd bait' innovation that might be fun but not core to customer value.

Work at a Startup Expo 2019

Y Combinator

A cloud app that Slapdash integrates with, allowing users to manage tasks across different platforms.