Create Sections for Lists
It would be great to be able to add Sections to Lists.
This could also be thought of as grouping certain tasks within lists.
Sometimes you want tasks to be in one list, but also be able to group them/put them in to sections, so you can better chunk them.
For example, I make films, and I would like a list for a film to be able to be grouped in to "Development", "Pre-Production", "Production", "Post Production", "Release".
It isn't suitable in this instance for me to make each film have its own project and then make individual lists, because I group film types as projects. For instance, I have a Project "Short Films", then each short film is a list. It would not work having a Project for each film, as the project list would be huge.
This is something that can be done in Asana, and is very useful.
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Brendan W
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Please Add Sections for Lists
Cameron de Serio Câmpean
Cannot currently import from Asana.
Right now I'm stuck with either import sections as Status (correct task structure, but breaks ClickUp) or import as Lists (completely breaks all my tasks). By looking at the comments of this post: https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/group-by-list , many others mentioned this to be an issue as well- importing from Asana, Monday, AND Trello.
See also https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/option-to-import-asana-projects-to-lists-instead-of-folders (my ideal with sections within the lists)
My request would be to replace what is currently "Status" with Sections, and move Status to simply be a default Field. This would solve all the issues.
Brendan W
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Cameron Schieldt
ClickUp doesn’t let you create persistent sections in lists like Asana, which makes recurring workflows, meetings, and SOPs hard to follow. The current workaround — using custom fields or tags — adds complexity and forces teams to remember processes instead of seeing them at a glance. If ClickUp had this feature, the transition from Asana would be so much smoother for my team.
Examples where sections help:
Weekly meetings – Wins, Updates, Issues, Action Items. Sections stay permanently, so team members are reminded of the structure each week.
Operational processes – Hiring pipelines or other workflows are easier to follow when tasks sit under clear section headers.
Video production – SOP steps are visible in the project, instead of relying on remembering which custom field to tag.
Brendan W
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Add Sections Within Lists
Peter Atkinson
Please allow users to create sections inside a List to group tasks. This is different from creating separate Lists: sometimes all tasks must remain in one List, but still need logical grouping.
Example: In film production, a single List (representing one film) needs sections such as Development, Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production, and Release. Creating a separate Project for each film is not feasible when Projects already represent higher-level groupings (e.g., “Short Films”).
Asana and Monday.com supports List-level sections, and it enables clearer workflow chunking and organization.
Brendan W
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Create Sections instead of Lists
Dallas Hutton
Being able to add a Title/Section other than a list within a project. AND also being able to create a Header in the Project List section too.
Brendan W
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Sections
Shahid Malik
Instead of using Tasks as a section in the list - please make life simple by giving ability to create sections so we can name them whatever project needs. Statuses should also be a click app which we can toggle on and off
Daniel Urbano
This could be done in a "Sections" View. That's my idea for this feature request.
Guy Mannerings
Vincent Max Weiten
What I would really like to be able to do is have Headings and Text above certain areas/groups of Tasks in my List View.
I basically want to have a kind of List View where I can free-hand write, and then group items underneath that are related to that writing.
Then you could group and sort Tasks individually under each.
This is so I can write notes, or write about the grouping below, etc. Like if I am ideating something and I want to write about that, then add a bunch of Tasks underneath that stream-of-conscious.
It makes the List view more free-form and more useful.
It would be like having a Doc where you can write on it, but then have Tasks underneath that are grouped, sorted, filtered.
Yes, you can currently group by whatever Custom Field, but you can't write notes about them, or give them proper headings (you just have to take the Custom Field heading).
Also, with this suggested implementation, it's like having a second level of grouping - 1 for the heading and text, and 1 for the actual grouped Tasks below. You can also have different groupings for each section (understood that this might be too complex). But, at the very least, this allows manually creating another level of grouping.
It's quite similar to how Notion looks, where you can write and then have Tasks underneath. Or ByDesign, where every List view is a Doc you can write in and then add Tasks to. Asana also has List sections (but you can't add text as well, as far as I know).
I added a not-great concept showing how it might look, but Notion is probably actually quite a good example in itself.
Docs are NOT useful for this, because they are not good to do work from (slow, cumbersome, not dynamic with Tasks showing automatically, etc).
Dashboards are NOT useful for this because: 1. The visual separation of card sin Dashboards would break them up, 2. They don't work well on mobile AT ALL, 3. They can be slow to load and work with.
By the way, can you combine this with the same feedback request here, that has 41 votes - https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/headings-sections-in-lists
This page here is my feature request. For some reason, it's not showing my name. But I did create it, and this is what I meant, even though I was not clear in the original request.
Tim Jasper
Thanks for the sections (in Clickup 4.0 UI). Can we please now have sub-sections..?
Guy Mannerings
Tim Jasper These are only sidebar sections in 4.0. We need List Sections.
Michael Van Doorn Any chance you have had any thoughts on this? It would be really useful for organising Lists without having to group by a Custom Field.
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nikolas
any update?
Peter Atkinson
nikolas Brent - any update?
Brent
Peter Atkinson thanks for checking in.
Looping in Michael Van Doorn in case he has any additional context to share on this request.
Peter Atkinson
Brent - Thanks for following up, Brent! And great to meet you Michael Van Doorn!
Sadiq Samani
Same! I moved from Todoist, and sections are greatly missed. I'm using a dropdown custom field because I need to be able to group items sometimes. I've tried using a custom text column, but that doesn't work when I start looking at global views.
Different projects (that I drop into a list per project) require different sections. E.g.
- Blog/Article: Stream of Consciousness, Editing, Posting, Marketing
- Comedy Tour: Booking, Marketing, Travel, Marketing, Pre-show, Post-show
- Fashion Engineering: General, Research/Prototyping, Development, Launch, Post-Launch
- Travel: General, Accommodations, Household, Destination
- Party: General, Invitations, Supplies/Food, Post-party Cleanup
Sadiq Samani
Also, the ability to organize the sections manually should be part of this.
E.g. I might want the General section at the top, and want the Actions section at the bottom of the list. If sections are only allowed in Alpha sorting, then the General section, which should be at the top in this scenario, would be somewhere in the middle.
Thanks!
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