# Custom board columns and sub-boards
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/more/board-custom-columns

Add a tag or genre column between the statuses, or a sub-board under a status or another column. Dropping a track (or album) in one sets its status, tags and genres; each column chooses whether leaving it takes the value off. Shown on the tracks board, list, sidebar, status dropdown, desktop and mobile, and on the albums board and list.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

The five statuses stay the backbone of the tracks board. Next to them you can
add your own columns, made from a tag or a genre, such as "pitching" or
"Afro House":

* **A column of its own** sits between two statuses and shows every track
  with that tag or genre.
* **A sub-board** sits under a status (or under another sub-board) and shows
  that status's tracks with the tag, so "Ready › Pitching" holds the ready
  tracks you are pitching.

A track in a column shows only there, and moving it out takes the tag off.
The first time a track leaves a column, Aden asks whether it should: keep the
tag for a label like "publishing" (the track then shows in the column and where
it came from), remove it for a stage tracks move through, like "pitching". The
answer sticks to the column; change it in the column's **…** menu.

Custom columns are outlined instead of filled, so they read as yours. Give
each one its own icon and color.

## Using it [#using-it]

* **Add a column**: hover the left edge of a column title and click the **+**.
  Pick a tag or genre, or type a new tag, then its icon and color (the last
  swatch picks any color).
* **Add a sub-board**: hover a column title and click the arrow button.
* **Move tracks**: drag a card into a column. It gets that column's tag or
  genre (and its status, for a sub-board). Dragging it out, or changing its
  status, takes the tag off unless the column keeps it.
* **From a track**: the status dropdown lists the sub-boards under their status
  and the columns between them.
* **Rename**: click a column's name. Every track with that tag or genre is
  renamed with it.
* **Icon, color, remove**: click a column's icon, or its **…** menu (which also
  holds **Remove "…" when moved out**). Settings › Statuses lists every column
  too.

The list view, the sidebar, the desktop app and the mobile app show the same
columns in the same order.

The albums board and list have columns of their own, made from album tags and
genres the same way. They are separate from the tracks board's columns.