Ever open your task list and feel like everything is shouting for your attention at once? That’s where colour can really help.

With Colour Categories in Trick, you can give different parts of your life their own colour, making it much easier to see what you’re looking at and what you need to do next.

If you’re studying, each colour could represent a different school or university subject. If you’re working, they could be different clients, projects or topics. Or maybe you just want a clear visual split between work, personal stuff and everything else.

It’s especially useful if you have ADHD and find big lists or lots of information difficult to process. Instead of having to stop and read everything, colour gives you an immediate visual cue. You start to know that blue means one client, yellow means uni, or green means personal before you’ve even read the task.

And that can make your to-do list feel a little calmer too.

Our tip? Don’t overdo it. Start with a few colours that are easy to tell apart and stick with them. The more consistent you are, the more useful those visual associations become.

Colour Categories work across Trick for Mac and iPhone, so the same visual system can follow you from your desk to your phone.

It’s a small feature, but if you’re looking for a more visual task manager for Mac and iPhone, an ADHD productivity app, or simply an easier way to organise school subjects, clients and projects, colour can make a surprisingly big difference.

Sometimes knowing what to do next really can be as simple as seeing it.