🚀 New Feature: List View in MeisterTask

Cornelia Patscheider
Cornelia Patscheider Admin, Moderator, MeisterLobster, EN Business Posts: 1,283 Community Admin
in Announcements & Updates

Dear Community,

MeisterTask offers a second way to view tasks in projects: List View.

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MeisterTask now offers two main views for all tasks in a project: Board view and List view. You can switch between these views to suit your project management style and needs.

💡 What is List View?

List view in MeisterTask offers a clear and easy-to-read list of all tasks within a project. This view displays tasks in a simple, vertical list format, resembling a spreadsheet in which you can quickly see details like assignees, due dates, and more.

💡 What is Board View?

The familiar, pre-existing Board view displays all tasks in a Kanban-style layout, with each task represented as an individual tile.

👉 To switch from Board view to List view:

  1. Open your project in MeisterTask.
  2. Click Board in the top navigation.
  3. Select List: The project will switch from the default Kanban Board view to a List format, displaying tasks by section.
Board to List to Board view II (1).gif

Learn more about List view. 

What is your favorite view? Let us know below in the comments, I am curious to see which view is more popular.

Comments

  • FrançoisJaeger CODE
    FrançoisJaeger CODE EN Business Posts: 10 Beginner

    Dear MeisterTask,

    I think this new list view will have a huge impact on smartphones with smaller screens and usually carried in portrait mode.
    In this situation, filtering tasks will be particularly efficient and should also be viewed in list so that filtering with several items can be easy and straightforward .

    When will we see this feature in the smartphone apps?

    Thank you for the great enhancements you bring to the app.

  • Volkmar Kuhmann
    Volkmar Kuhmann MT Tester, DE Business Posts: 3 Beginner

    It's good to have both views depending on the case for which it's needed. In a Meeting with several participants who all look onto the content the list view is much mor practical and a better overview. For using a filter it would be great if only the colums/groups would be shown for which the filter shows relevant tasks. That would be a absolut benefit for a bettere overview.

  • Oliver Wich
    Oliver Wich MT Tester, DE Business Posts: 86 Star Contributor

    AMAZING Feature!!!

    Uspkilling Enthusiast. Empowering a new Generation of Legal Experts.

  • Annette Schmidt
    Annette Schmidt DE Business Posts: 4 Beginner

    I do not have the button, nir in Browser nor mobile.

    Need to be pationed?

  • Bart Verheecke
    Bart Verheecke EN Business Posts: 50 Star Contributor

    very nice!

  • Chelsi Jo Moore
    Chelsi Jo Moore MT Tester, EN Business Posts: 11 Star Contributor

    I am excited to see development on this but am still ACHING for a calendar view. The timeline view in the drop down needs to be a calendar view not a timeline. This would seriously change the game. I've put this in the feature request for over a year and SO many other are asking for it.🙏🏻 We will certainly enjoying the small benefit of list view but essentially it doesn't make a large impact on organization or productivity. Calendar view 2025 please!! 🧡

  • Manuel Buczka
    Manuel Buczka DE Business Posts: 9 Beginner

    Very nice feature, especially if a project has a lot of cols with just a few tasks. Thanks for keeping the flow alive and delivering new features constantly ;)

    Keep up the good work!

  • Jason Mccloud
    Jason Mccloud EN Business Posts: 4 Beginner

    Preferred the previous method where you could see the board tasks and the timeline above it now I have to switch back and forth between the two.

  • Cornelia Patscheider
    Cornelia Patscheider Admin, Moderator, MeisterLobster, EN Business Posts: 1,283 Community Admin

    Hi all 👋,

    thanks for your feedback, that's fascinating to see how valuable this is!

    I want to clarify a couple of things:

    • @FrançoisJaeger CODE : You asked about the list view on the mobile app: At the moment, we are not planning to implement list view on the mobile app. The mobile screens are pretty compact, and the advantage of list view is having more info per row. That is why it is currently not on the roadmap. However, feel free to create a Feature Idea here about this and we can see how big the interest is.
    • @Annette Schmidt : If you cannot see the feature yet, then I would recommend trying to log out and login to your account again, try to refresh the browser or delete cookie and cache.
    • @Jason Mccloud , if you prefer the split screen and see all tasks on your board and the timeline above, then you can still do that without having to switch back and forth. See the gif below how to do that. I hope that helps.
    timeline and board.gif
  • Jason Mccloud
    Jason Mccloud EN Business Posts: 4 Beginner

    Very good thank you

  • Laura Frühauf
    Laura Frühauf DE Pro Posts: 5 Beginner

    Hi everyone,

    First of all, a big thank you for introducing the new list view! 😊 It’s such a great feature. Huge thanks for all the effort you’ve put into developing this!

    I do have a question and a bit of feedback about it:
    Currently, the chosen view (e.g., the list view) is applied across all projects. Would it be possible to set the view individually for each project? That would make it easier to tailor the display to the needs of different project types.

    Additionally, it would be helpful to have an option to choose whether the list is displayed expanded or collapsed by default. For larger projects with many entries, this could really improve clarity.

    Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, and for all the amazing work you do! 😊

    Best regards, Laura

  • Cornelia Patscheider
    Cornelia Patscheider Admin, Moderator, MeisterLobster, EN Business Posts: 1,283 Community Admin

    Hi @Laura Frühauf ,

    thanks for your feedback, that's an interesting observation, you are right, the view does change for all projects! I am sorry to say, that at the moment you have to switch manually to the chosen view in each board. However, I think this is a great idea! I'll forward those internally (as all other ideas that come up in this thread) to my colleagues at Meister.

    You can post both ideas here in the feature idea section of the community (or here for German ideas), so that others can vote for it. This would help us see, how many users would be interested in that kind of optimization of the feature.

  • Antoine ROFFÉ
    Antoine ROFFÉ EN Business Posts: 9 Beginner

    Hello Thanks a lot for this new feather !


    Question: are there any plans to add :

    • a column sorting system?
    • customisable fields visible in the table? If so, is it possible to plan a column system with results from the start? If so, I'll be leaving Notion right away !!!!

    Have a nice day and thank you!

  • philippe boukobza
    philippe boukobza EN Pro Posts: 20 Star Contributor
    https://community.meister.co/discussion/4542/new-feature-list-view-in-meistertask

    This new feature is really very useful!

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    Paris-Madrid

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  • Cornelia Patscheider
    Cornelia Patscheider Admin, Moderator, MeisterLobster, EN Business Posts: 1,283 Community Admin

    Hi @Antoine ROFFÉ ,

    thanks for your suggestions and ideas around this feature. At the moment, we are still collecting feedback and haven't made any plans yet how the List view feature will evolve in the future.

  • Jehan Clark
    Jehan Clark EN Business Posts: 2 Beginner

    This was SUCH a needed feature. Thanks for enabling it!
    Next can we please have custom fields displayable on at least the list view if not list and kanban?

  • Marlene Heinen
    Marlene Heinen DE Business Posts: 51 Star Contributor

    This feature is realy nice. I like to switch between both views.

    We noticed some problem regarding the dates. The year isn't listed, and projects with a longer duration are a little bit confusing. Like is the task due to this March or 2026 or even 2027?

    Would it be possible to add the complete date? Shall I write a feature suggestion for it?

  • Chris Sandford
    Chris Sandford Unconfirmed, EN Pro Posts: 2 Beginner

    Every time I open a project it now defaults to the list view. As a user who jumps between projects a lot, and who much prefers the board view, this has become really frustrating, to the point of giving up. Am I missing an option somewhere to keep projects on board view, or at least have a board remember its last view?
    I started using MeisterTask almost a decade ago because of the board view, and now it feels like we're being forced over to list view, since it's the new default.

  • Jason Mccloud
    Jason Mccloud EN Business Posts: 4 Beginner

    I agree with Chris Sandford this is becoming a very frustrating problem

    How do you address the automatic list view ? I only use board and timeline

    I’m starting to look at other software options

  • Cornelia Patscheider
    Cornelia Patscheider Admin, Moderator, MeisterLobster, EN Business Posts: 1,283 Community Admin

    Hi @Chris Sandford and @Jason Mccloud ,

    I am very sorry about the frustrations. I can relate very much, I also love to work with the board view.

    The MeisterTask team changed some settings late on Friday, so could you please try a hard refresh of your browser? I would like to know if this changes the view for you. Please let me know if the unwanted behavior persists.

  • Jason Mccloud
    Jason Mccloud EN Business Posts: 4 Beginner

    Yes I have refreshed the browser and it now is back to the way it was previously.Thank you for the update

  • Julian Schriver
    Julian Schriver Unconfirmed, DE Business Posts: 1 New Here

    Our users reported today everytime they use the new beta list view in MS edge browser the browser hangs or freezes.

    Windows 11 24H2 all updates up to date. edge incognito mode shows same issue. Could you guys from Mastertask please verify if there is a general issue with this new "beta list view" in current browsers?

    btw: we checked in firefox as well, just in case… same issue. freeze.

    Thank you!

    Best regards

    BB from Mehr-Ampere

  • Cornelia Patscheider
    Cornelia Patscheider Admin, Moderator, MeisterLobster, EN Business Posts: 1,283 Community Admin

    Hi @Julian Schriver ,

    thanks for reaching out. This is the first time that I have seen someone reporting this issue. I am sorry that your users have to deal with this. At the moment, there is no known general issue with the List view.

    I would recommend to please report this to the Meister Support, they can follow up with you and affected users and investigate this issue further.

  • Chris Sandford
    Chris Sandford Unconfirmed, EN Pro Posts: 2 Beginner
    https://community.meister.co/discussion/comment/12372#Comment_12372

    Thanks Cornelia, it seems to have resolved itself, probably a browser refresh did it. I was sure it wasn't designed to do that, just couldn't get it to work.

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