What are Custom Categories?
Custom Categories are user-defined labels you attach to tasks to group them by the area of your life they belong to. Where other apps lock you into a fixed set of options — Work, Personal, and maybe Shopping — TaskSolver lets you create any category that makes sense for how you actually live.
Common choices include Work, Home, Health, Hobbies, Finance, and Family, but many users build much more specific sets: a Side Project category for after-hours coding, a Learning category for courses and reading, or a Waiting For category for tasks blocked by someone else.
The flexibility is the point. When your task system reflects your actual life, you stay engaged with it instead of forcing your tasks into labels that don't quite fit.
How can it help you be more productive?
- Organize by life areaGroup tasks into the areas of your life that matter most to you, not into the categories someone else decided you'd have.
- Quick context switchingFilter to a single category and focus on one area at a time, whether that's powering through work tasks or planning the weekend.
- Visual color codingEach category gets its own color, making it easy to scan a task list and instantly see the mix of what you're juggling.
- Works across every featureCategories layer on top of priorities, reminders, the Kanban board, and the Pareto Diagram so you can filter any view by life area.
How it works in TaskSolver
Creating a category takes a single tap. Give it a name, choose a color, and it's available immediately when you create or edit any task. You can have as many categories as you need — there's no limit.
Once tasks are categorized, you can filter your task list to show only one category at a time. This is useful when you sit down to do focused work: filter to Work, close everything else, and see only what belongs to that context.
Categories also appear in the Pareto Diagram, showing how your completed work is distributed across areas. If you're spending 80% of your energy on Work but Health has been empty for a week, the chart makes that imbalance visible at a glance.