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Full coloured tasks (make tasks look like events)

Feature RequestTasks

OK, so I'm MOSTLY using Morgen (and Google Calendar until a week or so ago) for task management, but in a timeblocking paradigm, so they're tasks, but they're calendared.

As a result, the basically all-black aesthetic of tasks doesn't work all that well for me, given the large number of task groups I've got (and because I'm timeblocking, which often means doing a bunch of similar tasks in the same block, so colours are a good way to ensure you're not being too divergent).

So…

I'd like the tasks to be full colour, not just all the same black but with a tiny colour strip

or

in the new timeblocking schema I'd like the timeblock colour to show in/through the tasks dragged over the top of the block

Either would be fine, I think.

Hopefully this makes sense :-)

Posted by mic ·
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  • Matt

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    Oct 24, 2025

    Please do this it's small but huge for us

    • Matt

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      Oct 24, 2025

      noticed this was from over 2 years ago, think it can get pushed?

    • Danny Hatcher (Customer Support)

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      Oct 25, 2025

      Matt This would need to be an additional setting as many users like a visual difference between tasks and events.

      I can nudge the team but it not likely to be high priority.

    • Matt

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      Nov 11, 2025

      Danny Hatcher (Customer Support) yeah can look different but still have color highlights around the task for example. So it's still empty looking rather than the events being more filled in if that makes sense

  • Joaquim

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    Feb 7, 2025

    Pretty please this would be so awesome! Let's tag tasks! Keep a line of the "list" color but otherwise I would use this for tasks type(s) for my workflow.

  • K. Kamanani Conklin

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    Jan 4, 2024

    Agreed! I use different colors to represent different clients, so full-colored or even partially colored tasks would be helpful so I can get a better visual sense of how much time I've allocated per client that week and if I need to adjust things proactively. I like having the scheduled task's tick box be the color of the task list it's coming from and the bar on the left of the task be the calendar it's scheduled on, but it's honestly a bit hard to see with the tick box and the bar being fairly fine lines. Even expanding them slightly would be helpful

  • Brenna Donoghue changed status to In Review
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    Jul 5, 2023

  • Brenna Donoghue

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    Jul 5, 2023

    Absolutely makes sense. Thanks!

  • Danny Hatcher (Customer Support)

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    Jul 3, 2023

    I use the calendar and task list colours as differentiators.

    For events, I add tags to change the 'status'.

    How would you show a difference between events and tasks, just the tick box?

    • mic

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      Jul 4, 2023

      Danny Hatcher (Customer Support): Yep, I can see how that works.

      Thanks, I was thinking about the concept of tags for tasks as well, but need to think about it some more, and the status comment reminded me, so I've made myself a task for it :-)

      Yeah, just the tick box is what I was thinking. But maybe a black strip/square behind the tickbox on the left side to show it's a task? I clearly haven't thought this bit though, and no doubt I'm a terrible UX designer anyway :-)

    • Danny Hatcher (Customer Support)

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      Jul 4, 2023

      mic: suggesting the idea is all the devs want. The rest can be fleshed out afterwards.