DayGaps

Beta

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

DayGaps runs on Mac and iPhone. The Mac app is a universal binary on macOS 14 (Sonoma) and later. The iPhone app runs on iOS 17 and later. Both ship through TestFlight.

Request beta access

Internal TestFlight is invite-only. Email the Apple ID you want to test under and we’ll add you. You’ll get a TestFlight invitation by email within a day or two; install the TestFlight app from the App Store and tap Accept in the invitation.

Changelog

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

v0.6 · May 30, 2026

The release where Day Gaps becomes a real two-device product. Sync stops being “open the same Dropbox folder on every Mac” and becomes iCloud, end to end. The iPhone app stops being a preview and becomes the whole app, screen for screen. The visual language across both platforms tightens into one set of glyphs, one palette, one rhythm.

iCloud sync, end to end (new)

CloudKit replaces shared-folder. Areas, projects, tasks, headers, gaps, days, and the inbox now live in your private CloudKit zone. Changes flow between Mac, iPhone, and iPad through Apple’s silent-push pipeline. No Dropbox needed, no Files-app picker on first launch.
Local cache for offline. Every device keeps a Codable snapshot of the records it has seen, so first launch is instant and offline writes survive a relaunch. The sync engine replays those writes when the device sees iCloud again.
Optional YAML bridge on Mac. If you still want a plaintext copy of your data on disk (for editor access, version control, or a paranoia backup), turn the bridge on in Settings → Sync and point it at a folder. CloudKit stays the source of truth; YAMLs are a mirror that round-trips through.

iPhone app, full surface (new)

The phone is no longer a capture-plus-Today preview. Every sidebar destination has its own native screen.

Day Gaps on iPhone

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The iPhone app reads from your iCloud zone. Open it on the bus, between meetings, in line for coffee. The Today view shows the gaps you planned this morning. A few gestures let you bend the day when it bends on you.

What’s on the phone

A hamburger sidebar opens to the same destinations the Mac has. Today, This Week, Deadlines, Anyday, Inbox. A Pinned section for projects you’ve chosen to keep at the top. Each of your Areas, with their projects nested underneath. Archives and Settings anchored at the bottom. The brand wordmark sits at the very top.

FAQ

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This page mirrors the DayGaps Help sheet inside the Mac app (open from the Help menu, or press ⌘?). If something here is out of sync with what the app shows, the in-app version is the source of truth.

Gaps

A gap is a chunk of time between calendar commitments, the part of the day you actually have to spend. The Day view shows your gaps as horizontal sections, each with a time label and an optional name.

Hand the schema to your AI

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

DayGaps doesn’t have an API. It doesn’t need one. Your data is plain YAML and Markdown in a folder of your choosing, and any tool that can read and write text files can drive it. That includes the assistant on the other end of your ChatGPT or Claude conversation.

This page is the schema you can paste into a chat with your assistant of choice. Once it knows the structure, you can ask things like “look at my paper project and move the section-3 tasks earlier” or “what’s overdue and which of those should I drop?” and the assistant can read, decide, and edit the files directly.

Patterns

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s no one right way to use DayGaps. Below are five scenes from people who’ve already settled into a rhythm with it. Read whichever ones sound like your day.

Sunday evening

You sit down with a cup of tea and the week ahead. The calendar is already full of meetings, classes, the school run, two dinners you said yes to. Between those points are gaps. Some are short, some are long, none of them have a job yet.

Philosophy

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It’s 9:30. The gap you named morning focus is the next slice of your day, and three tasks sit under it: the ones you decided belonged there. Yesterday evening, or first thing this morning, you opened the app in planning mode and gave each gap its work. That’s real labor, and it has its own surface in DayGaps .

Right now you’ve left it behind. You’re inside the gap, and the only verb that matters is checking things off. There’s no setup ritual, no daily review, no priorities to triage. That work is over for now. You arrived; you focus.