Eano can color-code your tasks based on rules you set up in your account: plumbing tasks in blue, electrical in yellow, your internal to-dos in green, or whatever scheme fits how you run your jobs.
Why it matters
A color-coded task list or schedule is easier to scan at a glance. Look at a busy week and see mostly blue and yellow, and you already know which trades need your attention without opening a single task.
Coloring tasks by hand doesn’t scale well, though — it’s an extra step on every task you create, and it’s a real chore against a long list of tasks that automatic schedule generation just built for you. Task Coloring rules handle that work for you: once your rules are set, new tasks pick up the right color as you create them, an existing project’s tasks can be recolored in one click, and tasks generated from your scope come out already colored.
Setting up your color rules
Go to Settings, then open the Task tab in the left-hand menu.
You’ll land on Task Coloring. Eano starts you off with ten common categories already mapped to colors — things like Site and Demolition, Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC, Finishes, and Internal and Admin — plus a fixed Uncategorized row pinned at the bottom.
Click any color swatch to change it, or click into a category’s name field to rename it.
Click + Add category to create a new one. Give it a name (50 characters or fewer) and pick a color.
Click the trash icon next to a category to remove it.
A few rules govern this page:
Every color can only be assigned to one category at a time — you can’t reuse a color across two categories.
You’re capped at 14 custom categories, since that’s the size of the task color palette. If you’re at the cap, remove one before you can add another.
The Uncategorized row can’t be renamed or deleted. It’s the fallback for anything that doesn’t clearly match one of your categories.
Changing a category’s color is forward-looking only. It won’t reach back and recolor tasks that were already colored under the old rule — only tasks created or recolored after the change pick up the new color.
Only Owners and Admins can see or edit this page.
Coloring a task automatically as you create it
Open the color swatch next to the task name field in the Create New Task panel, and you’ll see an Automatic option (shown as a small rainbow icon) alongside the usual color swatches. Automatic is the default color for every new task.
Leave it on Automatic, name your task, and save — Eano reads your task name and assigns it a color based on your Task Coloring rules. Want a specific color instead? Just pick it from the palette like before.
This same Automatic option is available when you’re editing an existing task’s color too, so you’re not locked into whatever color a task started with.
Because the matching isn’t limited to exact keywords, it holds up reasonably well even if you write task names in a different language — a task called “Plomberie” should still land in your Plumbing category, for example.
Recoloring a batch of tasks at once
If you’ve got a project full of tasks that predate your color rules — or you just changed your rules and want everything to catch up — use the Color Code Tasks button. You’ll find it on the project’s Tasks tab and on the Schedule tab (both Calendar and Gantt views).
Click it, and Eano will confirm before doing anything: applying your rules will replace any colors currently on your tasks, including tasks you colored by hand. This is all-or-nothing — either every task in the project gets freshly colored, or none do. Completed tasks are included too.
Anyone with a Core Member role or above can use this button — you don’t need to be an Owner or Admin to run it, just to change the underlying rules.
Automatic coloring on generated tasks
When you use Generate Tasks and Schedule to build a task list from your scope, the generated tasks come out already colored according to your Task Coloring rules — no separate step required. If a generated task doesn’t get a confident match, it falls back to your Uncategorized color, and you can always run Color Code Tasks afterward to tidy things up.
A Few Things Worth Knowing
This only applies at the project level. Task colors show up on a project’s own Tasks tab and Schedule tab. The global Schedule view (the one that spans all your projects) isn’t affected.
If you clear out all your custom categories, Eano skips classification entirely and everything defaults to your Uncategorized color — no need to delete categories one at a time if you decide you don’t want the feature.
Bulk actions like Task Templates don’t trigger auto-coloring. A task copied in from a template keeps whatever color the template task had. Automatic coloring only kicks in from the task creation panel itself, or when you explicitly run Color Code Tasks.
FAQ
Do I have to use the default categories? No. Rename them, recolor them, delete the ones you don’t need, and add your own. The defaults are just a starting point.
What happens to a task that doesn’t clearly match any of my categories? It gets colored with your Uncategorized color — gray by default, but you can change it like any other row.
If I change a category’s color, do my existing tasks update? No. Color changes only apply going forward — to tasks created after the change, or tasks you recolor with Color Code Tasks. Your existing tasks keep the color they already have until you touch them again.
Can field workers or subcontractors set up Task Coloring rules? No — only Owners and Admins can access the Task Coloring settings page. Running the Color Code Tasks button is open to Core Members and above.
Will this recolor tasks I colored by hand? Yes, if you run Color Code Tasks. It doesn’t make exceptions for tasks you’ve manually colored — it’s an all-or-nothing pass over every task in the project.