Personal Priorities in ClickUp

Personal Priorities in ClickUp give you a simple way to keep the most important work in front of you every day. Instead of hunting through Spaces, Folders, and Lists, you can quickly highlight and organize the tasks that matter most.

This how-to guide walks you through how Personal Priorities work, where to find them, and how to use them across your workspace.

What are Personal Priorities in ClickUp?

Personal Priorities are custom priority levels that only you can see. They let you mark tasks as important in a way that is separate from any team-wide priorities or workflow rules in ClickUp.

Key details about Personal Priorities:

• They are visible only to you, not to your teammates.
• They can be applied to any task where you are at least a watcher.
• They appear in Home, Task Tray, and certain views so you can filter and focus.
• They do not change task status, due dates, or any standard priority fields in ClickUp.

Use them to track your personal focus items, daily highlights, or tasks you want to revisit soon.

Requirements to use Personal Priorities

Before you start, confirm that you have access to this feature in ClickUp.

• You must be logged in to your workspace.
• You need permission to view the tasks you want to prioritize.
• You must be assigned or added as a watcher on a task to set its Personal Priority.

There are no workspace-level settings required. Each person manages their own Personal Priorities independently inside ClickUp.

Where Personal Priorities appear in ClickUp

Personal Priorities are displayed in several key places so you can always see what is most important to you.

ClickUp Home

In the Home section of ClickUp, Personal Priorities help you organize your day. Your tasks can be grouped or filtered based on your personal markings, so you can quickly pick what to work on next.

• See your high-focus tasks at the top of your day.
• Hide items that are not currently important to you.
• Reorder your focus as priorities change through the day.

Task views in ClickUp

When you open a task in ClickUp, you can view and change its Personal Priority from the task details area. The indicator appears as a small personal marker that is separate from any standard priority flag.

This makes it easy to:

• Mark a task as personally important while you read through it.
• Downgrade or clear your personal focus when work is complete.
• Keep track of follow-up items you do not want to forget.

Task Tray and other views

Personal Priorities can also appear in other parts of ClickUp, such as the Task Tray or select list and board views, depending on your layout. Anywhere the Personal Priority marker is visible, you can use it to visually scan for your most important tasks.

How to set Personal Priorities in ClickUp

Follow these steps to set a Personal Priority on a task in ClickUp.

1. Open ClickUp and navigate to the task you want to prioritize.

2. Make sure you are assigned or added as a watcher on the task.

3. Locate the Personal Priority control in the task details area. This may appear as a small icon or labeled personal indicator separate from normal priorities.

4. Click the Personal Priority control.

5. Select the desired Personal Priority level from the list of available options.

6. Confirm that the new Personal Priority is now visible on the task.

You can repeat these steps on any other tasks you want to track personally inside ClickUp.

How to change or clear Personal Priorities in ClickUp

Your focus changes as work progresses, so you can update or remove Personal Priorities at any time.

1. Open the relevant task in ClickUp.

2. Click the current Personal Priority indicator.

3. Choose a different Personal Priority level if you want to change it.

4. Or select the option to clear or remove your Personal Priority if you no longer need to track this item personally.

When you clear a Personal Priority, it disappears from your personal views but does not affect teammates or any standard priority fields.

Use cases for Personal Priorities in ClickUp

Because Personal Priorities are private to you, they are ideal for daily organization without impacting shared processes in ClickUp.

• Daily focus list: Tag a small group of tasks as high personal priority at the start of your day.
• Follow-up reminders: Mark tasks you need to revisit after a meeting or review.
• Learning or research items: Highlight tasks related to documentation or training you want to read later.
• Context-based focus: Use Personal Priorities to group tasks for deep work sessions, such as writing or analysis.

You can combine Personal Priorities with other features in ClickUp like statuses, tags, and custom fields to build a flexible productivity system.

Tips for managing Personal Priorities in ClickUp

To keep Personal Priorities effective and lightweight, use the following best practices:

• Limit the number of high personal priority tasks you set each day.
• Review and update your Personal Priorities at the start and end of your day.
• Use them only for your own focus, not as a replacement for team-wide priority rules in ClickUp.
• Clear outdated Personal Priorities to avoid clutter in your Home view.

Learn more about Personal Priorities in ClickUp

For full technical details and the latest updates, see the official documentation about Personal Priorities in ClickUp at this help article.

If you are designing a broader productivity system around ClickUp, you can also consult specialized workflow and implementation resources such as Consultevo for strategic guidance.

By combining Personal Priorities with the rest of your workspace structure, you can turn ClickUp into a focused control center for your daily work.

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