The Fleece AI Brain Asana connector syncs your assigned tasks from your first connected Asana workspace into a local-first knowledge base — plain Markdown and SQLite on your own machine. Each task's name and notes become a note, tagged with its completion state, and any MCP-compatible app such as Claude Desktop or Cursor can answer from your real Asana history, with the source one click away.
What syncs from Asana
Everything arrives as knowledge nodes — ordinary files you can open, link and search, not rows that vanish into an archived project.
Your assigned tasks
The tasks assigned to you in your first connected Asana workspace, pulled through Asana's REST API — the work you actually own, not the whole org's board.
Name & notes
The task name becomes the note's title and the notes become its body, so a task reads the same in your brain as it does in Asana.
Permalink
The task's Asana permalink is appended to the body, so the live task is always one click from the note.
Completion status
Each note is tagged asana and status/open or status/completed, so you can filter your brain to open work or to everything already shipped.
Incremental sync
Runs resume from a stored cursor — the newest modified_at seen — via modified_since; the first sync backfills the last 90 days and pages the whole window to completion.
Update-in-place & dedup
Keyed on the task's global id, an edited task refreshes its note in place rather than duplicating, and a re-sync never creates a second copy.
Connect Asana in four steps
No project template, no rules — one sign-in from the desktop app.
- 01
Install Fleece AI Brain
Download the desktop app for macOS, Windows or Linux and open your vault — a folder of plain Markdown files on your machine.
- 02
Open Connectors and pick Asana
In the app, open the connectors panel, choose Asana, and sign in with your account. OAuth is brokered securely; your Asana content never passes through our servers.
- 03
Let the first sync backfill
The connector resolves your workspace, pulls the tasks assigned to you and modified in the last 90 days, then keeps pace with everything newer. Nothing to configure.
- 04
Let it sync — then ask
Sync runs in the background and stays up to date. Point Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP app at your Brain and ask how a task was handled months ago.
The project completes. The know-how archives with it.
Asana is where work gets done — tasks move to complete, projects wrap, and the board clears for the next initiative. But the how lives in the task itself: the notes that captured a workaround, the sequence that made a launch land, the detail that tripped up the last person to try. Complete the task, archive the project, and that operational memory archives too.
The Asana connector keeps it. Every task you own becomes a permanent note in one living knowledge graph, linked to the people, projects and tools it mentions — so the way something was done in a wrapped-up project is still one question away the next time it comes around.
Your tasks go from Asana to your disk. Nowhere else.
Authentication is a standard OAuth sign-in, but the sync calls the Asana REST API from the desktop app on your machine. Whether the token is used directly or brokered, raw task payloads never transit Fleece's servers — they land straight in your vault as Markdown and SQLite.
That is the whole trust model: we cannot read your Asana tasks. The files are yours, they open in Obsidian or any editor, and if you ever leave, you take every task with you.
- +Raw task payloads never transit Fleece's servers
- +Vault = plain .md files + SQLite, 100% Obsidian-compatible
- +Works offline once synced; cloud sync is optional and end-to-end encrypted
Give every AI app your operational memory.
One copy-paste connects the Brain to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Zed or agents you build. From then on, "how did we handle the last onboarding like this?" is answered from the actual task notes — with the source note one click away.
Because every agent and tool reads the same graph, hybrid search (meaning and exact words, locally) surfaces the right task whether you remember its name or only the outcome. On Teams, the organization map also shows which agents used that knowledge and what they cost.
Asana connector — FAQ
Does my Asana data pass through Fleece's servers?+
No. Sign-in uses a brokered OAuth flow, but the sync itself calls the Asana REST API from the desktop app on your machine. Whether your token is used directly or through the broker, raw task payloads never transit Fleece's servers — they land straight in your local vault.
Which tasks does the connector sync, and can I limit it?+
The tasks assigned to you in your first connected Asana workspace — the work you own, not the whole org's projects. The first run backfills the last 90 days; after that it keeps pace with newer changes. Scope follows your Asana access.
Does it write anything back to Asana?+
No. The connector is read-only: it pulls your tasks into the knowledge base and never creates, edits, completes or comments on anything in your workspace.
How often does it sync?+
Sync runs in the background from the desktop app and resumes incrementally from the newest modified_at it has seen, so each run only re-examines recently touched tasks. An edited task refreshes its note in place, and re-syncs never create duplicates.
Which plan do I need to connect Asana?+
The local brain is free, and connectors are the paid lever: Solo (€12/month) includes up to 3 connected tools, Pro (€24/month) makes them unlimited with auto-sync. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial, no card required.
How do I ask Claude or Cursor about my Asana tasks?+
Connect the Brain to Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP-compatible app with a single copy-paste. Your AI then answers from the synced Asana knowledge, citing the exact task note it drew from.
Can I open the synced tasks outside the app?+
Yes. Every task is an ordinary Markdown file in your vault, fully Obsidian-compatible — open, edit or grep them with any tool, and take them with you if you ever leave.
What happens if I disconnect Asana?+
Sync stops, and everything already in your vault stays yours — the notes are local files, not a mirror that vanishes with the connection.
Stop archiving the know-how with the task.
Connect Asana in one sign-in and give your whole AI stack a permanent memory of how the work actually got done.