Orange Is The New Red

[zedmango]

What we really need is color-ratcheting.

Feature Request: Color-ratchet

@dreev’s objection to the safety buffer idea, which I agree with, was: But several other users have noted it’s really the colors that matter: So I’m advocating for @Tarn’s suggestion here (but without the U in color please ), because… Why not both? Let’s have a color-ratchet setting that would make the motivating colors appear earlier. That way, if you’ve saved a few days of buffer and want to keep the buffer instead of retro-ratcheting, you could color-ratchet so that ora…

With color-ratcheting, you could preserve the psychological significance of red while still giving yourself extra days of buffer. It would let you set the colors so that everything less than X days is red, letting you associate the red line with whatever amount of buffer you wanted.