Two weeks ago I wrote that every change in DayMap that week began with an email. That has not stopped. Four updates have gone out since, and almost everything below came from someone telling me what their day actually looks like: half-done work, a task deleted by mistake, a watch glanced at between meetings.
In Progress: started counts
Not every task is done or not done. Some are underway. A task can now be In Progress, shown as a dash in its checkbox in the project's color.
On the Mac, Option-click a checkbox in the Planner, Scheduler or Focus. Option-click again to clear it. A plain click still completes the task.
On iPhone and iPad, press and hold the task and choose Mark In Progress. On iPhone you can also make it a swipe action in Settings.
For a repeating task, In Progress is for that day only. In a shared project, the other person sees it just as they see a completion.
Recently Deleted
Delete a task or a project by mistake and you can now put it back. DayMap keeps what you delete for 30 days. Open Settings > Backups > Recently Deleted and restore it, with its subtasks, right where it was.
Apple Watch opens on your day
The watch app now opens straight to Today, with your 3 Daily Bearings at the top in order. Tap a task's circle to finish it; it moves down to Completed today, where you can untick it if you tapped too soon. You feel a tap on your wrist each time. The Inbox and the microphone for capturing a new task are still one tap away.
Subtasks in the Scheduler
On the Mac and iPad, a scheduled task with subtasks now has the same arrow it has in the Planner. Click it to show the subtasks under the task right there in the Scheduler, tick them off, and fold them away again. A folded task tells you how many are done, for example 1/3.
Finding where a task lives
A subtask's details now include a Subtask of line naming every task above it.
In the Scheduler, Take Me to names the task group it will open, not just the project, and unfolds it for you.
On iPhone, press and hold a scheduled task and choose Take Me to to jump to it in its project.
Working in the Scheduler on the Mac
Select several tasks and move them together. Command-click to select them, then drag them to another day. Undo puts them all back in one step.
Shift-Command-S expands the Scheduler to fill the window, and brings the Planner back again.
Easier on the eyes
Planner text size on the Mac. Choose Large, Extra Large or Largest in Settings > General > Planner text size. Checkboxes, flags and notes grow with the text. iPhone and iPad already follow your system text size.
A calmer look. Red now means one thing: a deadline needs attention. A selected task in the Scheduler stands out from the rest, and the week's dates appear once, with the year.
Small things that answer real questions
When was this finished? A finished task's details now show the day and time you checked it off.
When does this come up next? Open a repeating task from its project and the next day it comes due is listed under the day it started. Focus shows it too.
A quicker start on iPhone. New to DayMap? Add your first task for today right from the welcome screen, and DayMap opens on your day.
The App Store speaks your language. DayMap's App Store page now reads in Spanish, Japanese, German, French and Brazilian Portuguese, the same languages the app itself speaks.
Fixed
With Carry unfinished work to today on, a task you had moved to a later day could come back to today when another device opened before your change had reached it. It stays where you put it now.
Coming next
Two fixes are already finished for the update after this one:
Unfinished tasks move to today even if DayMap never closed. Until now they only moved when DayMap was started fresh, so a Mac or iPad left open overnight kept yesterday's work on yesterday.
Waypoint explanations on iPad show in full. The ⓘ explanation beside each question could be cut off on iPad. It now shows everything, and scrolls when it is long.
Every one of these started with someone writing in, and I read every email. Please keep them coming.
DayMap is on the Mac App Store and the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
With gratitude,
Todd