Chat folders can be given colours, and then every chat carries a small coloured label showing which folders it belongs to — visible in the main list, without opening anything.
A chat can sit in several at once, so the labels stack. That is what turns a list of conversations into a board showing where each one has got to.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Put coloured labels on your chats.
- check_circle See the state of every conversation at a glance.
- check_circle Build a pipeline without any other software.
- check_circle Keep the system working after the first fortnight.
The labels appear on the chat cards themselves, so the list carries the information.
view_kanban A board made of your chat list
Anybody running a business through Telegram already has a mental list: this one is waiting on a quote, that one has paid, this one needs chasing tomorrow. It lives in their head and things fall out of it.
Folders with colours put it on the screen. Name the folders after states rather than subjects — quoted, booked, waiting on them, done — and the chat list shows the whole pipeline in one glance, sorted by whoever wrote last.
The labels also adapt to where you are looking. Inside the work folder, the work label disappears because it says nothing there, and only the finer distinctions show. It is a small thing that keeps the list readable rather than covered in badges.
Four decisions
The first one decides whether this is useful or just colourful.
checklist Name them after what happens next
colorize A sequence, not a palette
layers Stacked labels
event_repeat The part that fails
Folders named after states and coloured in sequence turn a chat list into a pipeline. Moving them is the work.
settings Setting it up
- Write down the states a job passes through Four or five of them.
- Make a folder for each Named after the state.
- Turn on folder tags In the business settings.
- Give each folder a colour in sequence With one loud one for today.
- Move the chat when you finish replying Attached to a habit you already have.
- Clear the finished folder weekly So the list stays scannable.
This page colours the folders. The curriculum step is building them: what belongs in a folder, custom icons and ordering, unread badges, and getting a hundred conversations into a shape you can work through.
At a glance
- 1Folder tags
Coloured labels show each chat's status.
- 2By stage
Name folders like quote, booked, waiting, done.
- 3Move them
The system works only if you move chats as you go.
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