The short answer
In Asana, one task can live in multiple projects at once (“multi-homing”): update it anywhere and it updates everywhere, and every team sorts it inside their own project. monday.com has no native equivalent — an item belongs to exactly one board. Teams migrating from Asana get the same behavior by installing Same Item Multiple Boards, which lets one monday item live on multiple boards with everything in sync.Translation table
| Asana concept | monday.com equivalent |
|---|---|
| Project | Board |
| Task in multiple projects (multi-homing) | Item on multiple boards — via Same Item Multiple Boards |
| Task comments visible in every project | Shared updates thread across boards |
| Subtasks follow the task | Subitems sync across boards |
| Sections per project (same task, different section) | Groups per board — the same item can sit in different groups on different boards |
| Rules: “add task to project when…” | Automation recipes: share item to board when… |
Why the native monday options don’t replicate multi-homing
- Connect Boards + Mirror columns show a few fields from another board, but the mirrored values are read-only references — you can’t build views, automations, or forms on them the way Asana lets you work with a multi-homed task (details).
- “Create item in another board” automations make a copy. In Asana terms, that’s duplicating the task into the second project — the two copies immediately drift apart.
Setting it up after migration
- Install Same Item Multiple Boards (install guide).
- Recreate your multi-homed structure: share each cross-team item to the boards that need it — manually for a handful, in bulk for many.
- Mirror your Asana rules with automations: “when item is created / status changes, share to board X”.
- Column names and types should match across boards — column mapping previews and fixes this in one click.