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Good idea!

Posted 7 years ago

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

Posted 7 years ago

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

Posted 7 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 7 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 7 years ago

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

Posted 7 years ago

+1 for this.

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

Posted 4 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 4 years ago

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

Posted 4 years ago

bret.bowser

Add me to this request as well.

Posted 4 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 4 years ago

Do you have an official word on this?

Tab colors would be very useful!

Posted 4 years ago

johnwd18

Really useful idea for a great program

Posted 4 years ago

*bump*

Posted 4 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 4 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 3 years ago

Me too!

Posted 3 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 3 years ago

+1

Posted 3 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 3 years ago

rharris

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

Posted 3 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 3 years ago

+1

Posted 3 years ago

+1 for this idea

Posted 3 years ago

me too +1 tab colors would be fantastic.

Posted 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 years 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 3 years ago

ramzo19

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

Posted 3 years ago

zanvill

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

Posted 3 years 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 2 years ago

+1 for this idea

Posted 2 years ago

+1, asking since so long time...

Posted 2 years ago

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

Posted 2 years ago

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

Posted 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

Posted 2 years ago

Tab colors would be a GR8 feature - please add.

Posted 2 years 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 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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

Posted 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

xtoq

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 1 year ago

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

Posted 1 year ago

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

Posted 1 year ago

lclarke522

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

Posted 1 year ago

vamshikk

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

Posted 1 year ago

+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 1 year ago

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

Posted 1 year ago

+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 1 year ago

vallynn

I was thinking of this as a way to quickly remind me which lists I've shared. Perhaps shared lists could be light blue. As it stands now, I have to activate the list and look at the sharing settings to remember whether I shared it or not. On the phone, it's even less apparent.

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

Tab colours ability to change please :-)

Posted 1 year ago

joaojesus

Apart from using RTM for managing tasks, I also use Microsoft Onenote to manage project ideas. In Onenote it's possible to give different colors to different tabs, and so I can have one color for business projects, another color for personal projects and so on. In the same page where we create lists, each list should have a properties button where we could customise the color of the tab.

Posted 1 year ago

+1 please add this feature

Posted 1 year ago

For me it's much easier and quicker to find things using personalised colours. I'd love it!

Posted 1 year ago

curtlytle

This would be so nice! Along with customizing the order of the tabs.

Posted 1 year ago

Add me to list to color-code my tabs.

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Posted 1 year ago

+1

Also the possibility of organizing tabs other than alphabetically!

Posted 11 months ago

moritz.saintpaul

+1
very good idea

Posted 11 months ago

robertgcox

I have to agree with this feature request. I use the same rtm account for work and personal tasks, so I have a lot of lists. Being able to color the lists would make it easier to find what I need.

Posted 11 months ago

freeminder

+1
Ability to customize tab colors would be really nice. Configurable automatic coloring according to some rule (say, tab name pattern) would make it even more powerful. And, I'm for manual tab organizing possibility as well.

Posted 10 months ago

Using Color to manage tasks is very smart, Good idea !!

Posted 9 months ago

tschouten

Want!!

Posted 9 months ago

WANT!

Posted 7 months ago

mr.louis

+1

Posted 7 months ago

would be very nice and useful

Posted 5 months ago

Any advances on this feature?

Posted 5 months ago

markewallace

Brand new RTM user here, and already I can say that this would be an invaluable enhancement to RTM. The white tabs are horrible.

Posted 4 months ago

I agree, invaluable! Please do it soon! Thanks, L

Posted 4 months ago

sarah.goslee

I agree, and would like the ability to color-code tabs that has been requested for years.

Posted 5 weeks ago