Counters allow you to glance quickly over the list of views and understand how many different tasks require your attention. You don’t even need to open each view.
For example, you can see how many tasks in your Inbox waiting for your processing. Or you can see how many overdue tasks appeared in the Active Actions view and compare them with the total amount of your active tasks.
Counters consider tasks exactly in the given view: default (1) or custom (2). The only requirement is to have the view enabled in your current profile so that you can give instructions to make a count.
Options for tasks to count: All, completed, not completed, started or overdue.
For example, for the “Inbox” view you may want to see two counters: the numbers of completed and not completed tasks.
Let’s say, you need to count overdue tasks among the tasks marked with red flag. Your steps will be:
In our example we have 3 completed and 1 not completed tasks in Inbox and 2 overdue tasks marked with red flag at the moment.
Thus, you can customize the counter system to your personal preferences.