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Alejandro Faria
I love how specific and compartmentalized ClickUp allows you to be, because everybody has the choice to be as specific and categorical as they want with those tools. However, I find that I don’t personally need as many divisions between new items as is currently possible. (E.g., as a new user, I don’t need a Workspace that contains multiple Spaces which can each contain multiple lists with different tasks, which can be further tagged into smaller categories.)
I would love if there was an option to toggle on/off the use of different hierarchical levels. For instance:
  • I currently have one Workspace that I set to private, because I currently want to work within the app for myself (but I LOVE the potential to connect with other users and promote cooperation within the app, I certainly don’t want to change that).
  • At most, I personally would rather TAG different tasks as School, Personal, Volunteering, etc. instead of creating separate spaces for them that I need to specifically create/add tasks into.
Because of how I want simpler divisions between things, I have now run into issues that force me to establish Automation to achieve things that I think should be inherent for someone that is working alone within the app:
  • Since I’m the only person within my Workspace, I would want every task created to be assigned to me; they are all MY tasks, and I shouldn’t NEED to create them specifically in Personal Tasks for them to be treated as such.
  • As it stands, I need to add an Automation (on the website only) to make it so that every task created is automatically assigned to me. BUT since I don’t want to use separate Spaces (i.e., I was just creating tasks into the Everything list within my Workspace) I wasn’t able to create Automations properly because they weren’t within a specific Space. (That is also another issue I have, I would want Automations to be able to apply to entire Workspaces, not just Spaces.) Because of how Automation works, I am FORCED to adhere to how ClickUp divides different things in order to make things work.
  • I can’t even create an Automation so that things with a set priority or a due date within a certain range automatically gets added to My Priorities (which I could also merit being combined within My Tasks and simply sorted by due date/priority).
So, put simply: I want to be able to NOT use things like Spaces, lists, My Personal List, My Priorities, and Automations in order to have things automatically put under my radar.
I am extremely grateful to the ClickUp team for all the work they do and the level of specificity they allow, not just in general but even within the Free Forever plan. I’m currently working to get into graduate school and need something that is both low cost AND personalizable. I don’t want to get rid of the divisions for everyone in any way, nor am I saying that the divisions do not serve their own purposes; I only want to promote the OPTION to use certain categories and ways of compartmentalizing different tasks and projects.