# About Status Collections <span class="related-pages">#index-pages #feature/statuses</span> ## Background > [!released] Custom statuses were introduced in Tasks 1.23.0. You can control the behaviour of your tasks (such as what happens when you click on a checkbox), using Tasks' [[Statuses]] feature. <!-- force a blank line --><!-- include: snippet-statuses-overview.md --> > [!info] > Broad steps to understand and set up Statuses (or "Alternate Checkboxes"): > > - Understand what Statuses are: > - [[Statuses]] > - [[Custom Statuses]] > - Choose your status styling scheme: this will determine the names and symbols for your custom statuses: > - Some common ones are shown in [[About Status Collections]] > - Set up your status styling scheme > - [[Style custom statuses|How to style custom statuses]]. > - Configure Tasks to use your custom statuses > - [[Set up custom statuses|How to set up your custom statuses]] > - [[Check your Statuses]] > - Optionally, update your tasks searches to take advantage of the new flexibility > - [[Filters#Filters for Task Statuses|Filters for Task Statuses]] <!-- force a blank line --><!-- endInclude --> The theme and snippet authors generally refer to this as 'custom checkboxes'. Tasks only knows how to display two core statuses, `[space]` and `[x]`. So before setting up custom statuses, you need to decide which CSS Snippet or Theme to adopt. This section will help with that. ## The Options ### Your current Theme or CSS Snippet If you are already happy with a Theme or CSS Snippet that supports custom checkboxes, you can stop reading this section, and move on to configuring Tasks to use it: see [[Set up custom statuses|How to set up your custom statuses]]. ### Selecting a Theme or CSS Snippet Tasks provides easy one-click set up of all the Themes and CSS Snippets in the 'Table of Contents' below. ### Our recommendation: SlRvb’s Alternate Checkboxes If you are unsure which to use, we recommend using a CSS Snippet rather than a Theme: - Themes are very opinionated about lots of aspects of presenting your markdown. - CSS Snippets can generally be used with a wide variety of Themes, so they keep your options a lot more open. The very widely used [[SlRvb's Alternate Checkboxes|SlRvb’s Alternate Checkboxes]] snippet is excellent, and we recommend starting with that. However, you can also browse through the pages in this section, to see the other options that Tasks is aware of. ## Supported CSS Snippets and Themes - [[About Status Collections]] - [[AnuPpuccin Theme]] - [[Aura Theme]] - [[Border Theme]] - [[Ebullientworks Theme]] - [[ITS Theme]] - [[LYT Mode Theme]] - [[Minimal Theme]] - [[SlRvb's Alternate Checkboxes]] - [[Things Theme]]