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Your First Status Set

This walks through setting up a classic Red / Amber / Green status set and turning it on for a folder, start to finish.

1. Create a status set

Open Settings → Status Sets and click New status set. Give it a name — "Traffic Light" works well for a general-purpose set.

Click Add status three times and set each one up:

Label Color
Red a red
Amber an amber/orange
Green a green

The order you put them in matters — it's also the sort order used when a folder groups its contents by status, so put your "not started" state first and your "done" state last.

The Settings tab, showing a Traffic Light status set with Red, Amber, and Green statuses, and a Projects folder assignment

2. Turn it on for a folder

Right-click any folder in the file tree — say, a Projects folder — open File and Folder Status Options, and choose Enable statuses for this folder.

Right-click menu on a folder, showing the "File and Folder Status Options" submenu with "Enable statuses for this folder"

Pick the status set you just created, then pick a default status — the one every item in the folder starts out with. Every file and subfolder directly inside Projects now shows a colored dot.

3. Change a status

Click any dot to open a small popup listing every status in that folder's status set. Pick one, and the dot updates immediately — the item also moves to sit alongside everything else with the same status, since the folder groups by status automatically.

A small popup with Red, Amber, and Green options, opened from a status dot

4. Turning it off (and back on)

Right-click the folder again and choose File and Folder Status Options → Disable statuses for this folder to turn the dots off. Your assignments aren't lost — re-enable it later and everything comes back exactly as you left it.

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