What's new in DayMap: 1.30 through 1.36

It has been a busy stretch — seven releases since the last one of these. Rather than walk through them one version at a time, here is everything that changed, grouped by the part of DayMap it touches.

A lot of this came from people writing in. Keep it coming.

Your day, in the order you meant it

• Your 3 Daily Bearings now lead the day. Mark a task as a bearing and it moves to the top of that day's work. Set all three and they read 1, 2, 3 down the list, in the order you chose them. A task with a time on it keeps its place on the clock.

• Next 7 Days is on the toolbar. The calendar toggle reads Week, Next 7, Month and Upcoming. Next 7 starts on today and moves a day at a time instead of jumping a whole week. It was already buried in Settings; now it is where you are looking, and the two stay in step.

• Pick the screen DayMap opens to on iPhone. Settings → Your Day → When DayMap Opens. Choose Projects, Today, Upcoming or Inbox. If you plan from Upcoming, that is where the app starts, instead of two taps away.

• The Schedule tab stays where you left it. On iPhone, wandering off to Inbox or Projects and coming back returns you to Day or Upcoming — whichever you were actually using.

• Focus got the full editor. Deadline, project, every repeat option, and the notes editor with its formatting and links. Working a day through in Focus no longer means leaving Focus.

Projects and areas

• A project can appear in more than one area. It is still filed in one place — open a project's menu and choose Areas. "Belongs to" is where it lives, "Also appears in" is everywhere else you want to find it.

• Archive a project instead of deleting it. Finished projects can be put away. They leave the board, stop reminding you, and keep everything inside. Bring one back whenever you like. Archived projects do not count toward the five-project limit.

• Go straight to a task's project. On Mac and iPad, right-click a task on the calendar or in Focus and the menu offers to take you there. It switches areas, opens the column if you had it folded, and scrolls to the task.

• Show unscheduled tasks first. A project can list the tasks with no date on them above the ones you have scheduled, with a line between. Settings → Appearance. Turning it off puts everything back exactly as it was.

• Set how wide your columns are. Settings → Appearance: Small, Medium or Large, or all at once. Dragging a column edge still adjusts that one on its own. The choice stays on the device, so a width that suits your Mac does not follow you to your iPad.

• Project details on a long press. On iPhone, press and hold a project for its name, color, areas, notes, archive and delete. Changing a color used to mean opening the project first.

• Deleting an area asks what to do with its projects — archive them or keep them on the board. The areas menu also says how many projects are filed nowhere, so none go missing.

Waypoint

• Ask your own questions. Settings → Your Day → Waypoint. Add questions of your own and they are asked alongside DayMap's. Reword one later and your earlier answers keep the question you actually wrote them under.

• Turn a question of your own into a checklist. Give it up to ten check boxes — water, teeth, reach out to a friend, whatever you want.

• Choose which questions get asked. Switch off any you would rather skip. Nothing already written is removed; look back at an earlier day and both the question and your answer are still there.

• Share what you have written. Today, This Week, This Month or Everything, as plain text through the usual share sheet. Change the date at the top and Share offers that specific day by name.

Siri

• "Hey Siri, remember this in DayMap." Siri asks what, you say it, and it goes into today's Waypoint. The app does not have to open.

• "Hey Siri, add this to the DayMap inbox." Same idea, straight to your Inbox.

• "What's on this week in DayMap" answers with a summary rather than a list — how many over the next seven days, how many today, and which day is fullest.

• You can also put a task on today, name one as a Daily Bearing, or ask what is on today, without touching the screen.

• Asking what is on today now includes repeating tasks, and any occurrence you have moved or completed. Archived projects are left out.

Getting things in

• A Details button wherever you type a task — the iPhone capture sheet, the New Task box on a Mac column, and Quick Add. Type the task, press Details, and the editor opens with everything already filled in. Return still just adds it.

• Watch captures find their own way to iCloud. A task added on the Apple Watch away from your iPhone used to wait until you opened DayMap on the watch again. Now it sends on its own — and if it cannot, the watch says so rather than leaving you to find out tomorrow.

• Lists in notes become subtasks. Write a bulleted list in a task's notes and a Make Subtasks button appears underneath.

Repeating tasks

• Deleting one from its first day. Right-clicking the first day now offers "Delete Repeating Task". It used to offer only "Remove from Scheduler", which on that one day ended the whole series instead of taking a single day off the calendar. Later days still offer Skip This Day and Delete This and Future.

• Ticking one off shows the check straight away. It was always being saved — the row just did not catch up until you did something else.

Knowing what iCloud is doing

• Settings → iCloud has a short report of whether setup, download and upload are working — on iPhone and iPad now, not just the Mac. If something has stopped, the reason is right there, and you can select it and send it to us.

• Nothing should be invisible. If DayMap ever finds a task belonging to no project, it puts it in your Inbox. You are unlikely to see this happen. It matters because such a task appeared nowhere at all — the work existed and could not be seen or edited.

Also fixed

• Tasks no longer rearrange themselves. Rows in a project could swap places on their own, and adding a task somewhere else was enough to set it off.

• Next 7 now moves through the days without a break. Scrolling and stopping part way shows seven days in order wherever you let go.

• On the Mac, a completed task leaves the screen as soon as you tick it.

• On iPhone, completing a task in the Schedule updates the checkbox straight away instead of waiting for something else to refresh it.

• On iPhone, tapping the arrow beside a task with subtasks no longer ticks the task off by mistake.

• Dropping one task onto another to nest it lands where you meant it to — the middle of a row is a bigger target now.

• A scheduled task with subtasks shows a mark and a count on the calendar. Until now a task with three subtasks looked exactly like one with none.

• Typing a task onto a day keeps its whole name. "Pay the invoice by Monday" dropped on Friday used to lose its last two words.

• Dragging the first occurrence of a repeating task to another day no longer leaves a copy behind.

• Folding a task open on your Mac no longer opens it on your iPhone. How you have things folded is yours alone, on each device.

• A subtask you have typed but not yet added is kept when you close the Focus pane.

• Choosing a project for a task lists them by name with the Inbox at the top. Archived projects are no longer offered.

• An archived project's reminders no longer go off.

• Setting a specific time on a task asks whether to switch reminders on for that device, so a task with a time actually reminds you.

• A Waypoint answer written on two devices could gain the same line again every time it synced.

• Sharing your Waypoint sent today's writing whichever day you were reading.

• Backups keep changes made to a single occurrence of a repeating task, and bring them back when you restore.

• What's New listed the previous release rather than the update you had just installed.

DayMap is on the Mac App Store and the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. If something here is not behaving, write in — most of this list started that way.