Create Sections for Lists | Voters

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.

February 19, 2019

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.

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!

Kate Shawver

I really, really wish ClickUp had this!

Boglarka Dobi-Derwael

It seems like this feature is still not available which is quite annoying migrating from Asana, where it really made projects easier to organize. Does Click up plan to integrate this feature?

Thanks

Erin Hybart

I kept searching for how to do this and I am glad you mentioned Asana because that is probably why i thought it was possible.

Adam Riff

Hi, is there a section available in Clickup. It will be useful if the section has its own "estimated timeline/due date" and it displayed in gantt chart view. its hard to use "task" as indicator because u need to assign under someone name. it will be redundant.

Casey

Sections are a basic feature in the top online planning apps (Things 3, Asana, Todoist, etc.) Clickup needs to add this functionality if they want to compete. It's preventing me from switching to the app.

*Creating a custom "Section" field and grouping by that is a poor workaround as you are unable to reorder tasks within the sections.

→