Formatting the Appearance of Tasks

[MYSECADA 14]

I am entering into a new semester in graduate school and entering all my due dates [i.e. tasks] for each class into one note by week and would LOVE to be able to change font color of the text/bold/highlight to visually show the type of task it is (like I used to do with the check boxes).  This would allow me to easily see the different types of tasks I have coming up within the note (I use different colors for reading assignments, tests, papers, etc.).  For instance, pink means I  have a writing assignment that takes more time vs. just plain reading.  I understand the tasks tab sorts these by date [not by priority, etc], but colored font for tasks would be super useful without cluttering my notes with workarounds.

I realize your teams have much bigger ideas and projects, but this would help out the little guy who is hooked on Evernote.  By the way, LOOOOOOVE the new tasks!  Being able to see all my tasks for the week will save me A LOT of work.  Looking forward to the day they will merge with my Google calendar 😄

Edited August 16, 2021 by MYSECADA
Related concern resolved

[Boot17 1,473]

I'm guessing you've seen this Evernote blog post about some task enhancements: https://evernote.com/blog/whats-next-for-tasks/

It doesn't look like formatting the color of the task is on their roadmap -- unless this is it: "More flexible formatting of tasks in the note editor—for example, the ability to indent tasks as part of an outline." -- but that would be cool if they did it. 

"Use more than one flag color" is perhaps on their radar, but the blog doesn't mention they are working on it.

I know you said you didn't want to do any work-arounds -- but perhaps prefixing your task text with an emoji isn't too bad of a work-around - since it adds right to the task and makes it visually different.

Something like this:

You can also query by the emoji too, so you could filter all your tasks of type: 📖   (but hrmm - this doesn't seem to work for the ✪ emoji so YMMV here with the filtering on different emojis)

 

[MYSECADA 14]

Although limited, different flag colors is a step in the right direction.

Another idea would be to allow a user-defined alpha numeric codes [i.e. "P1"] that could be sorted.

But, overall I think I could make the emojis work for me until more options flow down to the user.  I am hopeful since EN has been working hard in making significant improvements to the overall experience.

Thanks for the QUICK response!

[cinbeano 8]

I think it would be great if we could color-code the task bullet points, as well as the actual text in each task!

 

Right now, I am trying to keep track of my to-dos in a Note so that I can see all the subjects color-coded, all in one place (Today).

My gripe is that there is no way to select multiple checklist items (by dragging the bar next to it) to move them all at once, unless you copy and paste. It's tedious to move each one individually so I wish this was all just in the regular Tasks feature.

Edited September 15, 2021 by cinbeano

[Frankbot 0]

Hmm.. This is the first post about this I have found.. And I wanted to leave a comment!..

Oh man! I hope they allow changes to this.. I have been using another note taking software for years.. and this not having the slim line task list.. is annoying. 

[agsteele 2,962]

There are not likely to be changed in the short term.

Not entirely sure what you mean by a 'slim line task list.'  The task pop out is condensed and had various display options. 

The Tasks view in a note is more expanded.

[JoEllen 1]

Yes, please to MYSECADA's request/suggestion/idea! To be able to highlight my weekly/monthly/any time financial tasks green (for ex.), etc. - what an even more helpful way to be able to manage my tasks! Please consider allowing formatting in tasks 🙏😊 

[sjweiswasser 0]

I "third" the request to add formatting of tasks. The ability to do so would really help to prioritize/rank tasks or to strike some of a task's text without having to erase it. 

[nickjoshea 0]

We need some kind of colors or colored flags at a minimum. It's wild that notion has almost unlimited ways to do this and we get one red flag. Almost every app i use has so many options