I think that grouping is one of ClickUp's most powerful functionalities, as it can bring a ton of perspective and narrow focus on what's important.
A major functionality I've been missing, is the ability to group by dates in list / board view, in a meaningful way.
Currently, grouping by due dates is quite powerful - when used for future tasks.
Content management is the main reason we use ClickUp, therefore managing thousands of past articles and videos.
It would be extremely efficient if we could adopt the current due dates grouping, for start dates as well (we use start dates in place of "publishing date", since the start date field offers more reporting & filtering functionalities overall than custom date fields sadly).
So I think this is the best way it could work:
  • Have all date fields available in the group by section -> Start Date, Due Date, Custom Date Field
  • Offer the option to choose the grouping period -> Weekly (could show as W52, W51, W50 etc.), Monthly (Dec 2020, Nov 2020 etc.) and Yearly (2020, 2019 etc.)
  • Offer the option to group periods either in an ascending, or descending manner.
I believe this will open the possibility for even more hyper-useful list & board views, that can not only be applied in content management, but any kind of workflow or database.