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Thanks for the suggestion -- we'll be adding features to user preferences, so we'll keep this in mind.

Posted 6 years ago

Although it would be ideal to select our own colors, if that isn't considered an option, please consider the changing the colors to something a little more distinctive (likely the reason people would like to have the ability to change it). The orange is OK for Priority 1, but the blues are too 'soft', and close in shade to really provide a visual impact, except for maybe the lowest prioritized items. Maybe something like red-orange-yellow, or red-orange/yellow-blue would provide better contrast and meaning.

Posted 3 years ago

Changing priority colors plus the possibility of having more than just 3 priorities, pretty please!

Posted 3 years ago

+1

Posted 3 years ago

Please add a feature for colored tabs and/or more priority colors. Some way to easily distinguish the tabs by color would be my preference.

Posted 3 years ago

I've been trying RTM for a whole 20 minutes and my biggest complaint is that the priority 2/3 blues are too similar. That's a complement. Also, it would be nice to reprioritize by clicking on the color swatch in the key. Thanks!

Posted 3 years ago

stephenscott

want!

Posted 3 years ago

Yeah, the blues are too similar. I just went pro, so now I have a right to whine. :)

If you're concerned about color-blind folk, you could also have shapes. Triangle, square, circle? Exclamation mark, square, circle?

rmilk rawks btw. Been using it for many months now.

Posted 3 years ago

I have posted on this topic before. I have slight 'shades of blue' colour blindness and find it hard to distinguish priority 2 & 3 tasks by colour-bar. I would seriously support this enhancement !!!

Posted 3 years ago

I agree with keithm and others said about the similiar blue color for p2 and p3.

Posted 3 years ago

priority 1 red
priority 2 purpple
priority 3 blue

Like this color combination?
Its impossible use priority 2 and 3.

Posted 3 years ago

This lack of feature has actually got me using Toodle do because of the impossibility to differentiate the priority between the blues.

Posted 3 years ago

Looks like this has been a common request for a while....

I just started using / evaluating RTM and the Priority 2 & 3 colors are way too similar -- especially when viewed as the small checkbox circle icon in RTMGmail.

If you have a single Priority 1 item and a single Priority 2 or 3 item, it is very hard to know which priority the second item is (there is nothing to contrast the blue-ish color with).

How about:
1 = red / purple
2 = yellow / gold
3 = green / aqua

Any status of where this is in the RTM development priority pipeline?

Posted 3 years ago

Been using RTM for precisely 7 minutes and I already want this. And it looks like people have been asking for years, and almost no response. Come on, how hard can it be?!

Posted 3 years ago

I get the sense that RTM is getting overwhelmed with an ever rising base of users.

This is a good suggestion that deserves some attention

To this end, I am going pro with RTM for no other reason but to support them. Going pro offers me personally nothing for features, but I wish for RTM to thrive and be able to respond to and react to these wonderful suggestions.

Posted 3 years ago

done
glad to help out the fuzzy monkey
:)

Posted 3 years ago

Being able to pick your own colors seems to be the best option, since not all folks are keen on the red/ green combo (colorblind) ;)

Posted 3 years ago

I wanted to add my support for the suggestion of changing priority colors. As an alternative to picking your own colors, I'd be happy if there were 10-12 color themes to choose from.

Posted 3 years ago

Yes, the user must be able change the colors to their personal preference -- that should be VERY easy to implement -- I don't understand why this request has been ignored for so long :-(

I for one, would be happy to upgrade for helpful enhancements such as this.

Posted 3 years ago

RTM please please please do something about the "two blues". It's fine if you have a list of both priority 2 and 3 items. But with a list of just one of these priorities, it's not obvious if it's a lighter or darker blue.

My personal favourite combination would be red / amber / green -- but any three different colours would do!

Posted 3 years ago

I agree....this would be great even if it was red/yellow/green. The two blues can get confusing as a new user.

Posted 3 years ago

Hmm... I've been using Toodledoo for a while now, but thought I'd come back and see if RTM had made any improvements regarding start dates, adjusting the almost identical blue colors for priorities, or better integration with Mailplane.

Answer: Nope -- or who knows? No acknowledgment of any kind from RTM support in the last 6 months.

I'm also looking for drag-n-drop reordering of tasks / subtasks which Toodledoo doesn't support yet.

However at least Toodledoo Support has acknowledged that arbitrary ordering of tasks is a major feature they are working on, but that it is a complex problem that may not be solved anytime soon.

Toodledoo Support is also good about acknowledging new feature requests on their forum, even if they can't give any details about possible implementation dates.

Looks like RTM Support is still completely invisible and uncommunicative on the RTM forums.

A simple acknowledgment post in some of these forum threads that says, "Thank you for the feature request. Currently RTM Support cannot comment on plans for future features." would go a long way towards establishing more trust and communication between RTM Support and the RTM userbase.

As such, I guess I will look elsewhere for a more responsive / communicative application community.

Posted 2 years ago

this makes a lot o sense, please do this!

Posted 2 years ago

The priority 2 and 3 colors are almost identical (light blue / blue) ... Can you please change one of these colors to a totally different color? I would greatly appreciate it!

Posted 2 years ago

krissy

Hi everyone, I know that this suggestion is definitely on the list for the development team to do. Sorry I can't give you specific details at this point.

Posted 2 years ago

probe22

My biggest request of RTM would be to enable color-coding by tabs. Thanks!

Posted 2 years ago

Gosh, adding more priorities would make my life perfect. Or, selecting the amount of priorities, then customizing the colours. Good stuff!

Posted 2 years ago

While you're at it, the process by which you select the poor colors is way more cumbersome than it needs to be. You can embed priority right into the line item. This way, as events in out lives change, we can easily click on an item, drag to the new priority and wen we let go, it's done. One click- done. Not: deselecting items that are selected, selecting the item, going to the pop up, selecting the priority, then done.

For reference, see Palm Pilot "ToDo" list from, oh, late 1990s.

As for colors, (again Palm Pilot has 5 priorities labeled 1-5.) I'd base it on a street light... red, orange, yellow, purple, green.

Posted 2 years ago

Yes please change Pri2+3 to not be almost the same right now. Add options to add more priorities or change colors later. Pretty silly to make them both blue, please change now.

Posted 2 years ago

Agreed:

1) I'd love to choose my own colors for priorities
2) the blues are too similar for effective and rapid distinction

Posted 2 years ago

mdevitt

Hi, my thoughts....

Needed: customisations to allow you select you own priority colour. 2 blues is not easy to differentialte.

Needed: Customise priority names and allow to add more priorities. For example, I prefer: Top, High, Medium and Low priority as oppose to 123.

Posted 2 years ago

jeremy.richardson

Setting multiple levels of priority is my biggest feature request
Colors would have to be part of it

Posted 2 years ago

I would love to be able to customize the priority colors and have more than just 3 priorities. RTM is the best, though!

Posted 2 years ago

Any updates on these? Really wish the blue's would get changed. Can't distinguish them at all.

Posted 2 years ago

I completely agree. I would suggest adding a user preference to change the priority colors. These could be user-defined from a color palette, or three color selection options (e.g. primary colors: red, yellow, blue; Olympic medal colors: gold, silver, bronze; or secondary colors: orange, purple, green). The current orange is fine. However, there should be more difference between blue and lighter blue.

Posted 1 year ago

+1
I am satisfied with just 3 levels of priority but the 2 shades of blue color are WAY too close - please change them to very different colors. Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago

+1
Level 2 and 3 need to be way different...

Posted 1 year ago

jamesr404

+1

Want to be able to pick own colours, moving to RTM from my own system where I prioritized with different colours.... Like to keep the same colours as they are ingrained in my mind... (OK, maybe I'm a bit OCD, but aren't we all here? ^^)

Posted 1 year ago

You can easily modify this by installing Stylish and then adding the following userstyle: http://userstyles.org/styles/33319

Modify the hex values to your heart's content.

Posted 1 year ago

jmaddi

+1, default colours are not the best.

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

As per lowestsodium's comment, if you are using firefox you can override any aspect of RTM (or any other site) using the 'Stylish' firefox plugin.

I've just done this to change priority colours into red, amber and green - very quick and very simple.

Install the addon from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108/

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

smh8

+1. Firefox workaround a good idea but for mobile version I have the same issue with 2/3 being a bit too similar.

Posted 1 year ago

mgort

Couldn't agree more!

Posted 8 months ago

neo789

+1 I'll settle for more distinctive colours between Priority 2 and 3. THX

Posted 8 months ago

Use Firefox and and the Stylish add-on. I do that now to make a distinction between priorities.

Posted 8 months ago

mde1959

I find it very odd that this issue - which is clearly felt by a lot of people, including me - has not been addressed by now. How hard can it be? Please, RTM, make your great product even better by doing this soon! Thank you!!!!!

Posted 7 months ago

jacob.ballon

I agree with the recent posts -- this seems like a simple add-on and it was brought up over 5 YEARS ago. How has this simple level of customization not already been addressed? But...since it hasn't yet, is there a timetable for when it will be added an explanation for why it can't be added?
Thanks!

Posted 7 months ago

christopher.weible

You're not a programmer, are you? That may seem simple, but it requires the addition of a complete color picking subsystem. It would be easier just to offer several color themes to choose from.

Posted 7 months ago

marty_faulkner

I don't care to choose my colors, but would really love it if priority 2 and 3 were something other than two shades of blue. They are hard to distinguish.

Posted 5 months ago

I was coming over here to suggest this very thing!
I like putting in the dates I'm getting paid, so I can keep tabs on everything, and it would help a lot if I could prioritize them in green, and put my bills in red.
But, if you guys don't want to mess with customizable colors, at least change one of the shades of blue. Those two are way too similar!

Posted 4 months ago

ajeanne

I can't tell you how often I wish there were more colors to assign to tasks!!! I use the colors to sync RTM with my day.... red for morning, blue for the middle of the day, light blue for later in the afternoon. If I had more colors that I could arrange in a rainbow of time slots, I would be so, so happy! If I could assign custom colors to priorities... even better. Then I would probably use them to color code the types of tasks in my day: work, home, hobbies, etc.

Please please please! :))

Posted 14 weeks ago

harryl

+1 Customizable priority colors

Posted 14 weeks ago

fritzson

wow. I just Googled this option expecting to find the instructions on how to configure the colors. I can't believe it's not an option. I can believe people have been asking for it forever. Two shades of blue? Really? I have normal vision and I have trouble distinguishing them on my tablet.

I second ajeanne: Please please please!

Posted 6 weeks ago

This is a big issue for me. Please fix this.

Posted 4 weeks ago

sn3akyp3t3

I'm not color blind, but I do have difficulty distinguishing slight shade changes being only ever so different. Blue vs light blue is not absolutely hard to determine, but if only a single light blue is among a slew of blue it does get overlooked quite easily when in a hurry. I strongly suggest making the color selection customizable based on user preference and I do also like the shape option mentioned by others as an alternative. Aside from the customization request I would suggest for default settings to use a selection of colors that color blind folks don't have a problem with if possible. That would make RTM shine a bit brighter for accessibility compliance. :)

Posted 10 days ago