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Good idea!

Posted 6 years ago

I agree this would be great... especially being able to group lists according to subject matter

Posted 6 years ago

yup, that's part of what I was trying to get at

Posted 6 years ago

Wanted to agree with the tab color idea. To take it a step further, it would be great if the tasks from each tab were also colored so that when a smart list concatenates several lists together it will be easy to pick out which task belongs to which list.

A less ambitious yet helpful feature would be to simply be able to have a color other than white be the color for the active tab. I find that I sometimes lose track of which list I'm viewing with the white.

Posted 5 years ago

Agreed re the white color for the active tab--especially when Smart Lists are blue (they always look active, which is confusing). Thanks for a fantastic tool!

Posted 5 years ago

The ability to change tab colors would be greatly appreciated by those of us with visual impairments!

Posted 5 years ago

+1 for this.

I think it would be a pretty nice idea...

Posted 3 years ago

colors would be one visual workaround for sub-tasks. For example,

Main Project -- Dark Green

Sub-Project -- Lighter Green

Sub-Sub-Project -- Even Lighter Green

That way, with one glance, I could look at the tabs and see which were main categories, and which were sub-tasks / dependent tasks

Posted 3 years ago

This would be very helpful. I have 13 tabs and this would help GTD faster!

Posted 3 years ago

bret.bowser

Add me to this request as well.

Posted 3 years ago

I do agree with the comment that you'd want the active list to be the most prominent. As a new RTM user, the bright blue smart lists stand out much more (same blue as Aqua!) than the white, leading to much confusion.
At the very least the active one should be bolded, or with depth added.

A bit of a quibble, thanks for the great app.

Posted 3 years ago

Do you have an official word on this?

Tab colors would be very useful!

Posted 2 years ago

johnwd18

Really useful idea for a great program

Posted 2 years ago

*bump*

Posted 2 years ago

Just wanted to post the same idea. Colored tabs would be a simple improvement with a great effect in terms of usability of RTM.

Posted 2 years ago

noeldodd

+1 !!! Please implement this!

Colored tabs would make finding the correct lists much easier, and would work with my 'real world' system much better.

And being able to sort the tabs by color .... better still !

Posted 2 years ago

Me too!

Posted 2 years ago

Sorry - forgot to say above.

As well as tab colours, I'd like task colours which are defined by filters. I kind of use GTD, and have a smart list per project with an extra tag showing the next action. It would make it much easier to use if the next action were formatted differently from the others in the list (as well as having the extra tag).

Posted 2 years ago

+1

Posted 2 years ago

+1

Being able to change tab colors (especially of smart lists) would make it a lot easier for the eyes to pick the list you are wanting to work from at a given moment.

Posted 2 years ago

rharris

+1 I found this discussion while trying to look up how to do this very thing!

Posted 2 years ago

matthew.belleghem

So, uh, how about those coloured tabs?

Surely this can't be impossible to implement? I find it very difficult to find the list I'm looking for, as every time I add or delete a list, it changes the relative screen position of every list, so I'm forced to scan through a bunch of light-grey-on-white text to find what I'm looking for.

Anyone?

Posted 2 years ago

+1

Posted 2 years ago

+1 for this idea

Posted 2 years ago

me too +1 tab colors would be fantastic.

Posted 2 years ago

julius.ganns

Hey Guys,
would love to see that as well, especially for search tabs in order to differentiate between different kinds of contexts (location, time and requires, for example home / office, today / tomorrow and mac / phone). If the would be grouped by colors as well, that would be particularly great.
Best,
Julius

Posted 2 years ago

+1

It will be very a great improvment to found quickly the "origin" of the task -> the color of the Tab should be the some of the task. When I go in "All the task", I could view the origin of the task.

Regards

NB : Sorry for my bad english, I'm french.

Posted 2 years ago

debuck3

I too would love to see colored tabs. At the very least, I'd like to see the overdue tab on the overview page be red. Color-coding would definitely help!

Posted 1 year ago

jansona

tab and/or task colors would be great. I use priorities solely for their color and sorting properties, but more colors would be very useful.

Posted 1 year ago

ramzo19

+1 vote, also the ability to reorder them after changing colors is needed.

Posted 1 year ago

zanvill

so, is this available yet? As a greasemonkey script perhaps?

Posted 1 year ago

Does RTM Ever update any of these requests?...

I would love color coded tabs, and to change order.. It's super hard tof me to read Grey with white text, and often hard to find specific lists.

Posted 1 year ago

patrick.blanc

+1 for this idea

Posted 1 year ago

+1, asking since so long time...

Posted 1 year ago

jryan727

+1, would be extremely useful and relatively easy to implement (I'd think)

Posted 1 year ago

sfabius

Yes, colored tabs for lists and also when looking at "All tasks" each task would have the matching color.

Posted 1 year ago

Just to add to everyone else's request: coloured lists would be great. Would make me much more efficient.

It would also be great if you could order lists in a different way - have lists and sublists, for example for personal and for work. But colours first!

Posted 1 year ago

I'm hoping they start working on this. This is gonna be good. +1

Posted 1 year ago

Tab colors would be a GR8 feature - please add.

Posted 1 year ago

I am a new user was a bit disappointed to see no color-coding on tabs/lists.
This would be extremely useful, especially when looking at an "all tasks" list, where you have tasks from multiple lists together.

Posted 1 year ago

leslie.mort

I use multiple lists as well and would love color coding! If both the tabs and the background of the task were able to be color-coded, it would make navigating my lists much easier! Please add this feature. +1

Posted 1 year ago

deepchurch

I'm a visual learner. I have colors assigned to my categories in iCal. I would love to have my RTM tabs match.

Posted 8 months ago

bapinis

maybe someone has said this already; i haven't read the comments. but, maybe the user could pick a color to categorize tasks and w/in that color there could be several (three?) shades to denote priority. I like the color-coded priorities now. It helps me visually sort tasks, so I wouldn't want to lose that.

Posted 8 months ago

I think the best solution from a user point of view is this: when you make a list, you choose a color and all tasks within that list get that background color, while leaving the tab at the left to denote priority.

Of course, this wouldn't be ideal for smart lists, but I have a suggestion for that too! Windows 7 (and I'm sure other programs too) looks at the colors present in a program's taskbar icon and colors the background of the taskbar button based on that color. So the Firefox taskbar button is orange, the Notepad one is blue, etc. Perhaps something like that could be done for RTM as well.

Obviously, this isn't an easy implementation from a development standpoint, but I think that doing it this way will allow users greater degrees of organization without complicating a wonderfully simple user interface.

Posted 7 months ago

I like the idea of having different color fonts for different lists.

Posted 6 months ago

Wishing tabs can be different colors and fonts.
Otherwise I LOVE THIS APPLICATION!!!!

Posted 4 months ago

lclarke522

Add me to the list. Colored tabs would be so, so helpful.

Posted 17 weeks ago

vamshikk

-1. Please leave the interface simple. Over complication breaks things.

Posted 16 weeks ago

vleonty

+1. I think this is a simple feature that makes a lot of sense. I was disappointed when I found this was not available.

Posted 15 weeks ago

Ditto above post. Its hard to keep track of lists without the colours.

Posted 5 weeks ago

davep

+1 for me too - seems so obvious and needed - it presently looks so bland!

-1. Please leave the interface simple. Over complication breaks things.

It would have to be configurable - so if you do nothing, it would stay the same as it is now !

Dave

Posted 10 days ago