I’d like to be able to determine how my blocks are colour coded, specifically I think colours would be helpful to easily see the status. Right now I’m having a hard time keeping track of what is done and what isn’t because everything is just grey.

Hi there, two options:
1) Hover over the three dots in the upper-right corner of a card and click the dotted circle. This allows you to assign a status to a card. In the bottom-toolbar, you can choose to display the status for all blocks.
2) Create notes and assign it a color. Tag the block with that note. It will display the note’s color.

I was more referring to when looking a the blocks in the Contents on the left side (while viewing the document). Creating a note for every status would be a very clunky way to do it. the note colour option works well if i want to see who’ve POV a chapter is, but i’d like a way to see a status marker in the contents section at a glance.