Change Priority colours

Currently we have two shades of blue for priorities 2 and 3. What was wrong with the original scheme of red for 1, blue for 2, and green for 3? Three distinct colours. Nowadays I get 2 and 3 confused all the time - even more so on my work laptop, which has poor colour so the blues look similar.

15 comments, asked by on Jan 07, 2013 - 08:09

60 votes

on Jan 07, 2013 - 14:29

I agree with Vivian's comments. The P2 & P3 colors are too close to quickly differentiate. Please change back to how they were originally.

on Jan 07, 2013 - 17:37

PLEASE CHANGE THIS BACK!!!!!!! Its making this almost unusable for me now and I had been extremely happy till this point!

on Jan 08, 2013 - 03:05

Yes... the new color and label design is kind of contraproductive.

The original design was really awesome! What is the reason you chaged?

on Jan 09, 2013 - 09:00

Not only that, but I don't like the solid-fill color in the checkboxes now, which makes a task appear completed. It confused me. It would be better to use a three-pixel wide border of that priority color, and leave the interior region of the checkbox white so that you can tell it is not completed. This would be consistent with the iPhone app where a three-pixel wide stripe on the left of the task indicates the priority.

on Jan 09, 2013 - 09:15

I agree with Mark. To be honest, I don't see what was wrong with changing the colours of text, as it was originally. That allows a much easier way to scan a list of text and immediately see which items are which priorities...

on Jan 09, 2013 - 13:35

Please change this back, my subscription is about to expire and not being able to easily see the priority of tasks (by changing the colours of text) means this fantastic tool has become so less effective overnight. Now that P2 & P3 are different shades of blue (v83) things are even worse, it's almost as if our voice and subscriptions have become unimportant to Todoist. Voting with our feet (& browsers) may be the only way to make our voices heard!

on Jan 14, 2013 - 12:28

I prefer the colored checkboxes, but I agree that the colors of blue are far too similar right now, and I don't understand why this was changed.

on Jan 14, 2013 - 14:59

I agree with Paul. I really like the colored checkboxes but I don't like the new color scheme. Keep the checkboxes but change it back to red, blue, and green.

on Jan 28, 2013 - 04:20

Wouldn't the solution to this problem simply be to give people the option of whether they want to use the checkboxes or the text as their prioritization scheme?

on Feb 07, 2013 - 13:18

Yes, please change!

on Feb 21, 2013 - 20:23

I totally agree! I can't see a reason for using two shades of the same color when you already had three distinguishable colors to help prioritize!

I don't like the color check boxes. I would prefer that the actual text in the task subject be in the priority color.

While we're at it.... I REALLY HATE the way the priority color appears as a narrow (almost unnoticeable) strip in the new iPhone app!! I might as well not prioritize my tasks since I can't see the strip. In this case, it would definitely be better to just have the text of the task appear in different colors.

on Mar 04, 2013 - 22:14

Please no solid color checkboxes, they are no longer checkboxes, they are just some dark colored squares on the screen. And they don't look right on the elegant design of Todoist UI.

If the staff insist on filled squares as checkboxes, please let us choose the priority color so that we can change it to lighter colors to make them look like empty checkboxes again.

Thanks to the crew for this great product. And hope we will hear proper feedback soon.

on Apr 26, 2013 - 08:49

Would be great if we could edit the priority colors to anything we like.

on May 06, 2013 - 03:39

It would be an option to specify our own colours and even our own priority levels, create as many as we want.

on May 19, 2013 - 07:56

either allow us to change or make them clearly different - traffic lights work well : red green amber