Headings / sections in lists
London Rodriguez
I'd love to see the ability to add headings or sections INSIDE of a list... so that I can organize my lists by sections of that particular project. Similar to how Asana has the "Add Section" feature.
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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 (which is a request I made, it just is not showing my name for some reason. It was asking for the same thing, even though I didn't word it well), that has 165 upvotes - https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/create-sections-for-lists
Vincent
Love the idea of having more options for organization!
I think Subfolders would help here which is coming soon!
There is some potential to use ClickUp 4.0 Sections as well but not exactly the same as what you're outlining here.
Peter Atkinson
Vincent Hey Vincent, I think you're misunderstanding a little bit of what the request is.
I really appreciate the video!
Vincent
Peter Atkinson, brilliant - thank you for breaking that down for me with those examples and taking the time to make that video.
As you mention, you can achieve this by using any custom field and grouping the list view by that field, or even using a Folder view and making each list a "section" but I see now what you and likely London and the other voters meant.
I'm going to loop in our Views PM Max Weiten as an FYI as well. Max, sharing this post in case there may be a similar FR in View's boards but we can ideate together!
Peter Atkinson
Vincent - thanks!
Please do consider implementing it - and I'm more than happy to hop on with your team (and my employees are, too). It seems like a small thing, but it would be MASSIVE. And it could be easily implemented into a specific view as dividers - which would subdivide the list into sections. Would be HUGE.
Please let me know if I can help in anyway!
Guy Mannerings
Peter Atkinson This is exactly it.
Peter Atkinson
Guy Mannerings - Yup! Any update Vincent? Or Max Weiten?
ned
Add a "Section" field, and group by that?
Ilija Vrajich
I agree with London. This would be very helpful.
Ken Yuen
Great feature to have as it would add one more layer of organisation.
Bill
yes this would be great in ClickUp!