Asana Markdown and Syntax Highlighting
Adds the power of markdown and syntax highlighting to Asana
Asana Markdown and Syntax Highlighting launched on November 29, 2017 with 14 votes, #930 of 3,137 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
What it does
This extension automatically detects markdown syntax in Asana's task description field, and renders it according to the Github Flavored Markdown (GFM) spec. Most GFM features, including, tables and inline images are supported and code blocks in 23 common languages are automatically treated with pleasing syntax highlighting.
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