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Updated by Niels Lindenthal about 1 year ago
**As a** > My two cents regarding categories is, that we should remove them as soon as possible, as compared to custom fields, they only offer:
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> * Some means of self governance within a project member
**I want to** add labels to my work as project admins can mange the categories themselves.
> * Work packages
**So that I** can better structure my be assigned to users responsible for a category upon creation.
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> But they also have a couple of drawbacks, especially when trying to filter by them over a couple of projects.
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<br> As categories are only valid within one project, users tend to create the same categories over and over again and then expect the system to consider them to be the same just because the are named equally.
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> I would therefore downplay their prominence by moving them to the very bottom of the list.
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> * Some means of self governance within a
**I want to** add labels to my work
> * Work
**So that I** can better structure my
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> But they also have a couple of drawbacks, especially when trying to filter by them over a couple of
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> I would therefore downplay their prominence by moving them to the very bottom of the list.