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. Each type of counters has its own color and icon:
For example, for the "All tasks" view you may want to see two counters: the number of completed tasks and the number of all 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 93 completed tasks (out of 537) and 2 overdue tasks marked with red flag at the moment.
First you need to configure a counter for the required view, then open this view in a tab and turn on a counter for the tab: Right click on the tab and select "Set up Workspace…", then check "Show view counter on tab".
This feature lets you easily check whether items from the tab requires your attention, with no need to open it.