Sigurd Seteklev the biggest problem is that it is being forced to be the landing view. Overview itself is not wrong (even though I find it is a bit redundant to Dashboards) but I do not want to be forced for this to be the first view after clicking on a folder.

Sigurd Seteklev I don't think they are useful. I think they are redundant. We have dashboards if I want to visualize things. Right now, it's just a barrier to get to the views that I want. The primary reason we moved to ClickUp was the different views and the ability to customize and share them with the team. Now, we're being forced to adopt a view that we did not create. It reduces the efficiency of using the tool. To avoid the additional clicks to get arounf it, fewer folks are navigating the hierarchy and just relying on the search -- which is admittedly making things harder to find and of course, obscures the views that we found so valuable. Just make Overviews optional.

Sigurd Seteklev - The biggest issue with Overviews is that they feel redundant. They reuse the same cards and functionality as Dashboards but with fewer customization options, which actually makes them less useful. If I’ve already built Dashboards that reflect my workflow, Overviews don’t add any real value — they’re just a less flexible version of something I already have. To be truly helpful, Overviews need to offer something different, not just limited versions of existing features. For example, they could focus more on contextual or dynamic insights like what’s changed recently, what’s falling behind, or where my attention is needed most. Simpler doesn’t have to mean stripped down — Overviews could still provide high-level summaries or personal prioritization tools without becoming another Dashboard. And importantly, these improvements should not be tied to AI. It’s frustrating how heavily the AI add-on is being pushed lately. These are fundamental usability and UX issues, not problems that should be gated behind extra subscriptions or automated suggestions.

Sigurd Seteklev it would be great if we could have full customization to it, like a dashboard. I don't use or need those cards, but I'd love to be able to customize it to what I need by adding/removing cards.

Also I'd love to be able to change the title of 'Overview' and replace it with text, like you can with editing the name of the other views. This would help clarify the purpose of this view.

It would be nice to basically have an overview dashboard template that could be applied when the list or folder is made.

Sigurd Seteklev No unfortunately, it's good when required but we just don't always need it.

Sigurd Seteklev there is absolutely nothing I can think of that would make this view useful to me. I am not TOO bothered by it, because I favorite specific views and jump straight into them without clicking through the hierarchy. I'm mostly just annoyed that it takes up space on my screen and appears more important that other views on my list. Most of the views on my lists have specific filters to allow me to see specific things. If I wanted one of those to be the default, I'd just make it so.

Sigurd Seteklev I would much rather just have a dashboard here with dashboard features, when necessary and nothing here when I don’t need it. Please just allow it to both be optional and renamed like any other view type!

Overview assumes that I’m using the folder / list structure in a specific way, and I am not. I would honestly prefer that clicking the folder view allowed me to show the users nothing at all, so that they know to navigate to the correct list or pinned dash/doc.

My light users are confused about navigation already and this further confuses them (when to look down the sidebar vertically or when to look across a view horizontally?)

So I love that I can pin the dashboard and docs to the sidebar so that they know to nav through similar to their computer’s drive settings. Obviously the more heavy users need to access the different views of a list horizontally.

Sigurd Seteklev I share the views stated above. Less useful than a Dashboard, forced as first view, cannot be renamed, cannot be moved.

To me for this to ever be useful it would need to have more unique widgets than a dashboard (including all current functionality of a dashboard), be able to be completely customized and move the view tab, including deleting the view if not required for a Folder or Space - basically a Dashboard 2.0.

Sigurd Seteklev The biggest issue is requiring more clicks to get to the tasks themselves. My users often get stuck in the Overview and can't find the task list since this feature was introduced and made mandatory.

The overviews don't add any new useful information to me beyond what the List view already shows. I don't have any docs, links, or resources to add at the folder level, so those are all just blank space. The progress bars and assignee pie charts are somewhat useful, but I can get that information in much better context by just looking at the assignee and status columns of the list view. If you want to graph those things, I'd rather them just be tiny graphics in the empty space to the right of the list name in the list view, so we aren't forced to have a dedicated separate landing page for everything.

Sigurd Seteklev as the workspace owner ClickUp for a semi-large account, I have noticed that as much as we love ClickUp for all the features and flexibility it provides, it can also be exhausting to try to find what you are looking for when you have too many different views for the same list. We launched into a full-scale housekeeping mode to trim the fat of anything that is unnecessary or distracting us from the work we need to do outside of ClickUp. (After all, ClickUp should not be our work itself but a tool to help us organize it.) With that said, the Overview page is just one example of something we can't remove that is detracting us from being productive. It would be best if it was outright removed and we can use dashboards optionally for the same purpose. (Perhaps you can consider offering an Overview template.)

Sigurd Seteklev it would be nice to not only be able to toggle it on and off per needs, but also be able to drag it to another position when it’s on so the default is whatever I need to see. Thank you.

Sigurd Seteklev No matter what is changed about these "Overviews," it'd be ideal for them to be an optional feature regardless. There are some times we don't need anything other than the list itself, and needing an extra click to get there is disruptive.

Often we set lists at the level of an "Overview" that are simply "Everything" lists for all content nested beneath. This is already a default on the native list-view, that we then add columns/filters to, so nothing additional is needed.

Sigurd Seteklev

1.) I don't want extra views in my bar. It adds to overwhelm unnecessarily.

2.) I also don't like that I can't even MOVE it. Of course I'd prefer to just delete it, but at a bare minimum let me set it at the end so I can get to my ACTUAL intended important views faster that I have chosen.

PS. I love the brutal honesty in these comments. It seems that Overviews in general was a massive failure. Everyone hates it because it's redundant AND because it's being forced on us and put at the very beginning of views, with no option to move or delete it. I hope CU takes note of this in the future when rolling out features that nobody asked for, while also deciding to force it on everyone.

Sigurd Seteklev Overview would be more useful if it could be customized like Home or Dashboards. My main objection, though, is that I want to get right to List view 90% of the time, so making Overview the default view requires more clicks to get to what I actually want. If it was customizable and I had the option of defaulting to another view first, I would actually use it.

Sigurd Seteklev Just let us choose whether to use it, or what the default view is when we click on a folder. Problem solved.

Sigurd Seteklev That's like asking, "How can we change the skateboard to make it a better way to get from your front door to the car in your driveway every day?"

I don't need a skateboard to get to my car, and even adding pink glitter won't make me need it. It's not the skateboard's fault. Some people might really enjoy the skateboard. Just stop making me use it. :)

Sigurd Seteklev for me it feels redundant. An "overview" really would just work best as some sort of dashboard template.

Sigurd Seteklev one way I wanted to use them was a dashboard to include relevant OKR's or other major tasks from other lists - but as they can only use tasks native to that list, I need a dashboard instead making them, as others have said, redundant.

Sigurd Seteklev

I don't have any use for the overview, I want a list with the most urgent at the top. It's really annoying to have to wait whilst the unwanted overview loads and then wait again to see the view that I wanted to see in the first place.

I don't know why a compulsory view was added after the choice order of the views became customisable.

I don't know why this is taking so long to be addressed.

Sigurd Seteklev I just don't want to be forced to have a view that I don't need or want, especially as the first thing on the screen. I want the first view to be the one that my employees need, according to our process.

Sigurd Seteklev They're an irrelevant unneccessary thing that's been forced on us and now requires extra steps to get past so we can go to the task list to actually start the work we need to do. But in typical ClickUp style instead of listening to your customers you're trying to find a way to keep shoving unnessessary rubbish down our throats.

Sigurd Seteklev I really don't understand why we even have the problem. CU is designed to be adaptable to the needs of the user, which is one reason I use CU instead of other products - except for the rigid requirement for the Overview.

Nothing in the Overview provides any useful information for me. It is either presenting functionality I don't use, or I have long ago created a custom view that shows the data I want- no more and no less.

I have no doubt that Overview are useful to some CU users, but I would bet it is a very small percentage since we can create custom views to show the data we want in the format we want.

What I don't understand is the arrogance of CU in deciding the Overview is mandatory. It should be optional like many of the features in CU. You need it, turn it on; you don't need it, turn it off.

My suggestion is to make it optional as it should have been from the beginning and improve the Overview to encourage users to turn it on because it is now useful to them.

With respect, my question to you is what is so hard about making Overview optional?? You are beating around the bush instead of addressing the needs of the customer. CU is not a rigid, take the functionality as it exists with no customization, product. Why is Overview functionality

different?

Sigurd Seteklev just like everyone else here, I find the view simply unnecessary. So that the view does not interfere, we have laboriously inserted a few maps throughout the company, but these only help to a limited extent.

But I like one thing and I'm annoyed why it's still not in the normal dashboards... If you add a list to the folder, it is dynamically added to the “Lists” card. With normal portfolio cards, you have to do it by hand. But there is certainly no argument to make this view mandatory... Bring this feature to the dashboards and remove Overview.

Sigurd Seteklev I find the overview useless, as it's the same as a dashboard for me. It just makes the whole thing unnecessarily complicated.

Sigurd Seteklev Actually, it would be cool if we could choose folder-specific dashboard cards. E.g., a folder-only timesheet card!!! (getting time reports for folders is one of our most important missing pieces)

Sigurd Seteklev Overviews force me as a user to click to my List view for Folders or Spaces 20 to 30 times a day, every single day. This slows me down. The Overview always in the way of accessing my work, that is my Tasks in List view in each of my Folders or Spaces (with specific sorting options to show me my most important tasks at the top). For me, there is zero information on the Overview that I want to see. I see no way to make the Overview tab useful. I would like ClickUp to follow my settings and make the List view my default. And I would like to open every single Space, or Folder directly in List view, including via the links in the list of Spaces, Folders and Lists on the left side of the interface.

Alexandra Waggoner You can add and remove most cards right now. Is there any specific ones that you would like to have there that isn't supported right now?

Sigurd Seteklev it would be nice to be able to remove the 'list' card as it's pretty large and takes up a lot of space in the dashboard, and can be distracting if that's not something I need in the dashboard.

Sigurd Seteklev sometimes there is no use for them, other times they need some improvement.

For us, folders are client accounts, and usually have a single view of a single list. We want the default to be a list view when we open the folder and avoid using the list-level views because some clients are exceptions with multiple lists in the folder. We need the flexibility of multiple lists in a folder but consistency in workflows and views. In this case, Overview is pointless because our folders are 99% just a single list.

At Space level, I'd love to use Overview, but it's missing critical features and serves no use for us:

* The Folders widget is completely different from the Lists widget and has zero information about the folders shown.

* The Lists widget is closer to what we need, showing the owner and task status summary. But since our clients are Folders, this widget doesn't work for us.

What we really need is a widget that shows a List View (or Kanban) of the all the Folders and Folderless Lists in a space. We need to be able to create custom fields (mainly drop downs and comments) to describe the status of each Folder, and have all the sorting and grouping options that are available for tasks within Lists.

You could think of this as treating lists as "Grandparent Tasks" and folders as "Great-grandparent Tasks"

Sigurd Seteklev I agree with a lot of comment I see here. Right now the Overview is just a less useful Dashboard. Ideally for us the Overview would be totally customizable with being able to pull in information from any folder/list/document in that area. We use different folders for different projects and we want to be able to showcase key information in that overview but it can be really challenging with the current card types limitations (bookmarks, refences, docs) and the text cards not being able to like reference text from a doc. Everything is very manual to keep these spaces up to date.

Lydia Thorne: We have something in progress here. But it hasn't been fixed due to different priorities.

Leslie Surel: Thanks for checking in. We ran into a corner case that prevented us from rolling this out. It is still on our list but we are still working through how to resolve the corner case.

Lily Chan Hello, could you please give an update about this feature? The original request is from September 2023. This is a long time waiting, as a user.