The short answer: open Asana in the browser or desktop app, click into a task description, project brief, custom field, or Form text box, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux), speak the full spec, press the hotkey again, and AICHE runs cloud-default transcription and inserts cleaned text where your cursor sits.
The Problem
Asana punishes empty fields. A task with a title and a due date looks "managed" in My Tasks, but the assignee still has to Slack you for scope. Custom fields stay blank because typing "Severity: production, repro steps, log link" feels like homework. Project briefs and Goals stay stubs. Portfolio status updates shrink to green/yellow dots with no story. Forms collect one-line answers because applicants rush the text boxes.
The bottleneck is not Asana's views (Timeline, Rules, multi-homing). It is prose. Meetings create tasks in seconds; descriptions take minutes, so they never get written.
What Changes
Speaking runs about 150 words per minute. Typing runs about 40. A task description that would take six minutes to type takes about ninety seconds to speak, and you are more likely to include acceptance criteria, links, and "definition of done" because saying them is easy.
AICHE does not assign tasks, move cards on Timeline, or fire Rules. It inserts text. You still set assignees, dates, sections, and dependencies in Asana.
How It Works
- Install AICHE on macOS, Windows, or Linux.
- Open Asana (app or browser) and navigate to a task, project, Portfolio, or Form.
- Click into a text surface: task description, project brief, comment, custom field (text type), or Form answer field.
- Press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux) once to start (toggle, not push-to-talk).
- Speak scope: background, deliverable, constraints, stakeholders, and what "done" means.
- Press the hotkey again. Audio goes to cloud-default transcription (streamed to Groq, discarded immediately after processing, within 1 second).
- Review the insert, then use Asana for assignee, due date, multi-home to another project, and Timeline scheduling.
Offline: recordings queue encrypted locally and process when you are back online.
Task Descriptions and My Tasks
My Tasks is where assignees live. A dense list of titles without descriptions forces context hunting across comments and DMs.
Open a task from My Tasks, click the description field, and dictate one block: what to do, why now, inputs (Figma link, spec doc, customer quote), and acceptance criteria. Subtasks can get the same treatment: create the subtask in Asana, click its description, dictate the slice of work that subtask owns.
For recurring work, dictate a template once, copy the description on the next task, and dictate only what changed. You keep velocity without retyping boilerplate.
Custom Fields, Forms, and Multi-Homing
Custom fields (text, dropdown notes in a text field where allowed) carry the metadata reports need. Click a text custom field, dictate the value: "Root cause: timeout on checkout API after deploy 4.2.1. Owner: platform team. Customer impact: ~2% of sessions."
Forms power intake: bugs, creative requests, IT tickets. Each long-text question is a dictation target. A Form that took fifteen minutes to type honestly takes a few minutes to speak through, with fewer "see above" placeholders.
Multi-homing puts one task on multiple projects without duplicating work. Dictate the description once on the task; the same text serves every project column. Speak project-specific context in a comment on the copy in each project if teams need different emphasis.
Project Briefs, Goals, and Portfolios
The project brief is the narrative new members read first. Open the brief editor, dictate goals, audience, out-of-scope items, milestones, and how you will measure success. Enable Content Organization in AICHE settings if you want section-like breaks in longer briefs.
Goals (company or team objectives linked to work) often ship with thin descriptions. Dictate the measurable outcome and which projects roll up to it so executives and ICs share the same sentence-level definition of success.
Portfolios aggregate projects for leadership. Open a project's Status update, click the update field, and dictate narrative: on track / at risk, what changed this week, blockers, and asks. Message Ready turns spoken updates into readable prose faster than typing the same update ten times for ten projects.
Timeline, Rules, and Collaboration Surfaces
Timeline (Gantt-style view) shows dependencies and date shifts; it does not replace written scope. When you move a bar because scope grew, add a dictated comment on the task: "Extended QA by three days because staging lacks payment webhooks. Backend ETA unchanged."
Rules automate moves, assignments, and notifications from triggers you configure (field changes, section moves, due dates). Rules do not infer intent from free-form description prose. Dictate descriptions and comments for humans. Set the custom fields, tags, or sections your Rules actually watch in the Asana UI. Leave admin notes in comments when a Rule's behavior needs context ("Rule added after Sprint 14: auto-complete only when QA Approved label is set").
Comments remain the handoff layer: dictate progress, blockers, and decisions so My Tasks subscribers see history without a meeting.
What You Get
- Full task specs at speaking speed - descriptions, not just titles, in My Tasks.
- Custom field and Form answers - dictated once, visible in reports.
- Project briefs and Goals text - onboarding context without a separate doc paste.
- Portfolio status narratives - spoken updates, edited in place.
- Message Ready - cleaner status and client-visible comments from casual speech.
- Custom vocabulary - product names, acronyms, and customer names spelled correctly.
- Cloud-default transcription - audio not retained after processing; offline queue when needed.
Plans start at $3.99/mo (annual) with a 7-day free trial, no credit card. See pricing.
Common Questions
Q: Does AICHE integrate with Asana's API or automate Rules?
A: No. AICHE inserts text at the cursor. You configure Rules, Timeline, and assignments in Asana.
Q: Can I dictate into rich-text descriptions?
A: Yes. AICHE inserts plain text. Use Asana's toolbar after insert for bold, lists, or headers, or enable Content Organization for structure.
Q: Do custom field types all support dictation?
A: Text and long-text fields work when the cursor is in the field. Dropdowns, people fields, and dates still need clicks in Asana.
Q: Does this work in the Asana desktop app and browser?
A: Yes on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The hotkey targets whichever text field is focused.
Q: Is transcription local?
A: No. AICHE is cloud-default. Offline recordings queue locally, encrypted, until connectivity returns.
Q: Can I multi-home a task by voice?
A: Multi-homing is an Asana action in the task UI. Dictate the shared description once; add the task to additional projects in Asana as usual.
Q: Will dictated Form answers trigger Rules on submit?
A: If your Rule keys off field values or tags set by the Form, yes, same as typed answers. AICHE only supplies the text.
Result: tasks in My Tasks carry enough context that assignees start work without a clarification thread, Portfolios show real status, and Forms stop returning one-line ghosts.
Try it now: open Asana, pick a task with an empty description, press your hotkey, and dictate background, deliverable, and definition of done in one pass. Then open its project brief and add three sentences about success metrics.