Changelog

What's shipped, and what's next.

v1.1 · October 21, 2026

A visual refresh and a parity release. The Mac moves to a light look with Liquid Glass and page actions in the title bar. The iPhone and iPad become full peers of the Mac: the project, area, Deadlines and Plan pages are now the same pages on every device. A new Plan page and an overview of counts help with planning the week, focus becomes one card for the gap you are in, sync gets safer when two devices edit the same thing, and the app has a new icon. No schema change.

Focus

Now island. A small floating island shows the current gap’s name, its time left and a ring counting down. Same look on Mac and iPhone.
Focus card. Tapping the island opens one card of the current gap’s tasks, with a pie of tasks done and the time left beneath it. On the Mac the window fades behind the card. The card names the calendar event a gap falls inside.
Anytime and Carried over open the focus card from their headers, so their tasks can be ticked off without rescheduling.
Open-ended gaps stay current until their stretch of the day ends (island, ⌘F, widget).
Widget built from the focus card’s pieces: time and gap heading with the pie, time left for the running gap, the day’s other gaps when there is room.

Planning

Plan page (formerly This Week). Day columns follow your locale’s week and page by week. Tasks drag onto a day or a gap; dragging back to the To plan column unplans them. The sidebar now reads Today, Deadlines, Anyday, Inbox, Plan.
To plan column. The left column of Plan, with Anyday and Carried over views. A DUE chip and one row of area chips filter the column, every day, and the overview.
Overview. An inspector beside Calendar on Plan and Today. It gives counts and names no task: four deadline boxes; Anyday, Carried over and Inbox; open time; areas and projects. Each box opens what it counts.
Open time. Every open window in the calendar panel shows a thin gray line; the window holding now has the accent line, with a tick at the current time.
Calendar panel. Events and gaps first, the month below. A Show my gaps switch replaces the old expand glyph.
Dragging on Today. A task in a gap, Carried over or Anytime can be dropped on any gap of the day or on Anytime, on Mac and iPhone.

Mac

Light visual refresh with Liquid Glass gap cards, area chips and tag chips.
Page actions in the title bar. The bottom bar is gone. The inspector has its own toolbar with detach and the calendar toggle.
Drag from anywhere on a row. The grips are gone from tasks, sections and an area’s projects. A hairline shows where a drop will land.
Right-click menus on tasks, section headers, subtasks and an area’s projects.
Subtasks. Collapse All and Expand All Subtasks in the View menu (⌥⇧⌘← and ⌥⇧⌘→). Option-click folds a section with its subtasks.

iPhone and iPad

One bottom row: calendar, now island and Capture to Inbox.
Project page shared with the Mac: rename, deadline, editable notes, sections, tag filter, and a ⋯ menu. Section folds are remembered per device.
Area page shared with the Mac: completed groups, dates, sub-area folding, reorder, move to sub-area, Edit, Hide and Delete Area.
Selecting tasks. Swipe from the right to select, swipe from the left to schedule. While tasks are selected, a bar offers Schedule, Deadline, Move, Subtask and Delete. Deleting several tasks undoes as one step (shake to undo).
Today. Even rows with clearer space between gaps, and one button to fold or unfold all subtasks.
Haptics. A light tap when the focus card settles, a faint one when a task is checked off, and the error pattern for a sync error.
iPad. The sidebar is one long list, as on the Mac, with the wordmark at its foot; it can be hidden and widened.

Glyphs and icon

Projects are circles with a pie of tasks done; a finished project shows a check, a project held by the bridge a lock. Areas are a grid of four circles. All stock SF Symbols.
New app icon. An ink D and G with a gold wedge in the gap, on white. In dark mode, a white letter on deep teal ink.

Sync and data

Edits from two devices merge field by field. When the same record changes on two devices before they sync, each field is merged against the last version each device saw. Only the same field changed differently on both loses anything, and the banner names the field.
Quick check and uncheck no longer shows “overwritten by another device” or loses the last tap.
The bridge closes without touching files it did not write.

v1.0.5 · July 26, 2026

A visual and structural pass. The right inspector gets a calmer gap treatment (only the gap containing “now” stays fully coral; the rest recess into cream), the marketing site ports the same visual language, and a batch of iPhone Today polish tightens the day the phone shows you.

The right inspector: muted cutouts (redesign)

Only “now” is loud. Non-present gaps drop to cream and rely on an inset shadow to read as recessed. The present gap keeps the full coral fill it earned in 1.0.4. Two states instead of three; the visual quiets down when the clock isn’t inside the gap.
Collapsed hairlines follow the same rule. Non-present gap hairlines render in 35%-alpha coral. The present one stays full. Bookend (off-hours) hairlines drop to a muted slate.
Text on cream. Range and duration in ink, entries in medium-ink uppercase with tracked lettering, bullet visible against cream. Text-on-cream contrast tested for both light and dark appearances.

iPhone Today, authoritative pass

Two-line rows. Every task in Today shows title + a secondary line with due chip, area chip, and project (or gap on This Week). Reads faster than a single dense line and the DUE chip has room to breathe.
A dynamic calendar-icon Today button. The top-right button draws the current day of month inside the calendar mark, so at a glance the button matches the date it navigates to.
Area filters live in the ⋯ menu. The top-right overflow menu gathers Add gap and filter by area (each area’s color chip inline). Removes the row of filter chips from the header without hiding the capability.
Inline action cluster on the selected row. Tap a row to select it; a small pencil + trash cluster appears on the right of the row. Replaces the system context menu for the two most common operations. Long-press still moves.
Persistent bottom sheet hosts on-demand sheets. IOSBottomSheet owns the root modal slot, so no more races between the always-open planner and a transient reschedule.

Mac

Section drag-reorder persistence, fixed. The v1.0.1 known issue is closed; a section moved in a project stays moved across relaunches.
Toolbar cleanup. sharedBackgroundVisibility(.hidden) kills the glass from behind toolbar chrome, so the title bar reads as a hairline instead of a bar. Primary-action buttons resolve to the window trailing edge, not the split-view root.

Marketing site

daygaps.com repalette + type port. The site adopts the app’s v1.0.5 visual language: three-tone cream stack (page, card, header), one shared coral-scarce discipline, SF Pro across all body copy, Futura reserved for the wordmark alone. Feature cards on the landing page use the Bootstrap-style card-header idiom the app inspector introduced.
Documentation cards standardized. Every /docs/, /concepts/, /start/ card renders in the same panel treatment as the landing cards, with the CTA link on its own line.

v1.0.4 · July 19, 2026

The release where the right inspector gets its permanent home for gaps and the app grows the last few connective tissues: derived gap durations, live links inside task titles, and a real reorder mechanic that persists.

The right inspector: gap cutouts (new)

Every gap in the inspector renders as a coral cutout. Range on the left, duration on the right, entries beneath. The bookend (pre-dawn / after-hours) gap gets the same shape in a cool tone to signal off-hours.
Between-event captions. Calendar events sit between cutouts as small captioned rows, so the inspector reads as an alternating dance of “you decided” (cutout) and “the world decided” (event).
Derived durations. Each gap’s max capacity is computed from the next fixed thing (next gap or next event) and rendered next to the range. Change your plan, the math updates. No end-time to maintain by hand.

Live links in task titles

URLs, phone numbers, and emails become clickable in place. NSDataDetector runs on every title; matches are underlined and open in the system handler on tap. Double-clicking a task no longer accidentally triggers a link because the openURL path guards on click-vs-double-click by timestamp.

Reorder that persists

Native grip-armed drag on projects and areas. Long-press to arm, drag to move, release to commit. The move survives relaunch and syncs to iCloud.
Renaming a gap’s time cascades. Change 10:30 to 10:00 on a gap and every task assigned to the old time follows, so the schedule doesn’t quietly drift.

Ephemeral tagging polish

The #tag mechanic is fully derived. No tag registry, no rename ceremony. Delete the last task that carries a tag and the tag stops existing. The tag chips on Today are recomputed each open.

v1.0.3 · July 8, 2026

Widgets. And a batch of small planning-surface tightening around the calendar inspector.

Widgets (new)

Three sizes. Small: the next gap and its first two tasks. Medium: the current gap in full with all its tasks, plus a tap-to-mark-done affordance. Large: today at a glance, gap by gap.
Subtask-aware. A parent task with open subtasks shows the subtask count; the widget won’t let you complete a parent while subtasks are open, same rule as the app.
Tap-to-focus and tap-to-done. Tap a gap to open the app focused on that gap. Tap a checkbox to complete the task without leaving the Home Screen.
Light and dark. Widget backgrounds pick up the system appearance; text renders in the same ink family the app uses.

Planning surface

Calendar inspector gains the “claim this open time as a gap” affordance. The between-events open stretches the inspector already derives are now clickable: pick one and it becomes a named gap starting at that time.
Gap glyph tightened. The bell icon for reminder-enabled gaps sits on the baseline of the header instead of half a line above it.

v1.0.2 · July 1, 2026

A polish release on top of the 1.0 sync work: the app icon gains proper dark and tinted variants, subtask collapsing gets a real button, and the AI bridge gets a settings home and a cleaner handoff.

App icon

Dark and tinted variants. The icon now renders correctly in macOS dark appearance, on the tinted iOS Home Screen, and in Launchpad, instead of falling back to one flat version.

Mac

Click a section header to collapse it. A single click on a section or sub-area title collapses it; a double-click still renames. The chevron on the left toggles directly, as before.
One Subtasks button. Today, Project, and Area each carry the same Subtasks button in the bottom bar: tap to collapse every task’s subtasks on the page, tap again to expand them all. The old top-corner collapse icon is gone.

AI bridge

Its own Settings tab. The bridge moves out of General into a dedicated tab, with step-by-step setup: read the guide, download the protocol, and point the app at your local copy of it.
The guide travels with the handoff. The “paste this to your assistant” block now carries the path to your saved protocol file, so the assistant knows exactly which document to follow. If you haven’t saved one, it says so and includes the download link instead.
Cleaner scope. Archived projects are left out of a bridge session, and each area’s folder is named after its current display name, so a renamed area reads naturally on disk.

iPhone

Calendar settings breathe. Toggle rows in the per-calendar list get proper spacing.
The bottom bar steps aside on the sidebar and in Settings, so it never covers a control.

v1.0.1 · June 30, 2026

The 1.0 release candidate. The headline is sync: DayGaps now shows you exactly what iCloud is doing and protects your edits when two devices disagree. Around that, a long polish pass tightens planning on the phone and the small visual details on both platforms.

Sync you can see, and trust (new)

A sync status row on both platforms. The Mac sidebar floor and the iPhone Today footer show a health dot and a plain caption: “Synced 2m ago · 142 records” when all is well, “Saving 3 changes…” while writes are in flight, amber when something needs attention. Tap it for the details.
Refresh from iCloud. A new Settings action (with a matching File-menu item on Mac) rebuilds the local copy from what is actually on iCloud, without touching the server. It refuses when a bridge session is open or when you still have unsent changes waiting, so a refresh can never quietly discard work.
Your edits are protected when devices disagree. If two devices change the same task, the one that loses the race now tells you so, “An edit to ‘X’ was overwritten by another device. Check it and re-do if needed,” instead of silently dropping it. Offline edits are guarded against being overwritten when a device reconnects.
Records by type. Settings → iCloud Sync Status expands to show how many Areas, Projects, Tasks, and Gaps iCloud is holding, so a sync question is something you can look at rather than guess at.
Diagnostics export. One tap writes a metadata-only report (versions, counts, status, file sizes, and deliberately no task titles or area names) to send with a bug report. A test keeps that privacy invariant in place.
The phone keeps itself current. iPhone now refreshes every 60 seconds while it is open, closing the old lag where a change on the Mac took a while to appear on the phone.

Planning on iPhone

A pull-up planner. The calendar planner card is now a bottom sheet that rests as a pill under Today and rises when you pull it up, so your tasks own the screen until you want the calendar.
A permanent Today button in the top-right, always one tap from the current day.
Tap a section header to collapse it, the same quiet gesture the Mac has.
Enter starts the next task instead of inserting a line break, so capturing a list is one keystroke per item. A new task with a subtask renders already open.
Ephemeral tag chips are back on Today, and in-list reordering is fixed.

Focus and finish

A clearer focused gap. The gap you are working in is marked by a coral underline and a bolder heading rather than a filled pill: quieter, and easier to read.
One consistent glyph family. Projects, areas, and the rest now draw from a single stock SF Symbols set instead of a custom one, so the app looks native at every size. Anyday picks up a cleaner mark.
Live links in task titles. Phone numbers, URLs, and email addresses in a title are detected and underlined; tapping one opens it, and a tap on a link never triggers a rename.

Mac

Undo an accidental delete. Cmd+Z brings back a task you just deleted (one level).
Tap any day in the calendar to see that day’s gaps and events.
Click an inbox item to triage it straight away.
Selection reaches the bottom bar, so scheduling and deadlines apply to a multi-selection in one move.
Toolbar cleanup. The title-bar chrome is quieter and better aligned, and the sidebar toggle returns to the native control.

Under the hood

Swift 6. The codebase moved to the Swift 6 language mode and strict concurrency. Invisible day to day, but it pays off in fewer subtle timing bugs, especially around rapid edits and sync.

v0.6 · May 30, 2026

The release where DayGaps 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. When you want your plans as plaintext (for editor access, version control, an AI session, or a paranoia backup), open the bridge: pick the areas in scope, the app writes them to a folder as YAML and locks itself, you edit, you check in. The YAML you check in becomes the new truth for what’s in scope, and every session starts with a backup. CloudKit stays the source of truth between sessions.

iPhone app, full surface (new)

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

Today, This Week, Deadlines, Anyday, Inbox, Areas, Projects, Settings all rendered for iPhone instead of falling back to a scaled-down Mac layout.
One gesture vocabulary across every list. Tap a task to mark it done. Leading swipe sets the deadline. Trailing swipe opens Reschedule (pick a new date and a gap on that day in one sheet). Long-press surfaces “Move to project.” Same four gestures in Today, Project, This Week, Anyday, Area.
Focus mode on Today. Tap a gap header to focus that gap. Every other gap, plus Carried Over and Anytime, hide. Tap the focused header again to come back. (The Mac’s focus is a Pomodoro timer in the menu bar; the phone has no menu bar, so focus there is a visual filter instead.)
Floating-glass bottom bar. Today, capture, and inbox triage live there; the rest of the surface area belongs to your tasks.

Visual language pass

Sidebar glyphs match across Mac and iPhone. Today is a dynamic day-of-month calendar mark. This Week is the split-rectangle on Mac, an ellipsis-calendar on iPhone (both reading as “horizontal stretch of week”). Deadlines is a flag. Anyday is the infinity loop. Inbox is the tray-with-arrow.
One glyph for projects, tinted by area. Every project row, in the sidebar and inside the area view, uses the same app.badge.checkmark mark (a container of check-able items) colored with its parent area’s tone. Pinned projects keep the same glyph; they’re recognized by living in the Pinned section, not by a different mark.
One fixed glyph for areas. Each area carries the same stacked-squares mark; only the color is yours to choose. (Color is the signal that actually carries information at a glance; per-area glyph variety doesn’t earn its keep when the name is always next to it.)
Two-tone wordmark, tighter. The y-tail of “Day” now fully interlocks with the bowl of “G” in “Gaps”. Identical on the app and on this site.

Mac changes

Sidebar restructure. Today, This Week, Deadlines, Anyday, Inbox at the top; Pinned section always visible; Areas with disclosure-grouped projects; Archives at the bottom; brand wordmark anchored beneath. The wordmark now appears at the top of the iPhone sidebar: same component, mirrored placement that fits each platform’s chrome.
Local persistent cache, instant launch. No more multi-second wait staring at empty sidebar lists on cold start.
Reset all data button in Settings → Data. Wipes the CloudKit zone and the local cache when you need to start clean.
Sync diagnostics in Settings. Cached record count, last fetch result, last write result, plus a Sync now button. So when a sync hiccup happens it’s something you can look at instead of guess at.

v0.5 · May 24, 2026

The first release that ships on two platforms. Mac picks up everything from the v0.3 and v0.4 cycles plus a menu-bar timer and an in-app Help sheet. iPhone enters preview alongside it: capture, Today, This Week, and the swipe gestures that make last-minute replanning feel native to the phone.

iPhone preview (new)

iPhone app on TestFlight. Email support@daygaps.com with the Apple ID you want to test under. Built for iOS 17 and later. Reads and writes the same folder as the Mac, via the Files-app folder picker; Dropbox, iCloud Drive, and anything else that exposes a folder works.
Hamburger sidebar. Inbox (with a count badge), Today, This Week, then each Area with its projects nested underneath, then Settings anchored at the bottom.
Three gestures, one vocabulary. Tap a task to mark it done. Swipe right to move it to a different gap on the same day. Swipe left to reschedule. The same gestures work in Today, in This Week, and inside a project view.
Gap CRUD on iPhone. Tap a gap header to edit time / label / delete. Swipe left on a header to delete with confirmation. The bottom bar’s “+ Add gap” pre-fills the next half-hour after the latest existing gap.
Floating-glass bottom bar. Per-screen contents: Today gets Add gap and Add to inbox; project views get Add task and Add header; This Week gets Add to inbox only.
Single-field capture. The inbox button opens a one-field sheet with autofocus. Type, save, the line lands in inbox.yaml. Triage on the Mac or on the phone later.
Project date-assign. Swipe left on a project task is “Assign date” if it doesn’t have one yet, “Reschedule” if it does. Stays read-only on structural project edits (rename, archive); those remain Mac-only.

Mac changes since v0.2

Menu-bar timer. CMD-click a gap header to arm a countdown for that gap. 25 / 45 / 90 / custom; a gentle ping at zero; CMD-click again or use the menu-bar End item to stop early. Wall-clock time, no pause.
In-app Help sheet. ⌘? opens the same content that mirrors on this site’s FAQ. The in-app version is the source of truth.
Undo toast for destructive operations. Delete task, delete subtask, delete header, archive project, move project to Trash all surface a ten-second undo at the bottom-right. ⌘Z or the toast button restores. Only the most recent op is undoable.
FolderWatcher. Cross-Mac live refresh via FSEvents. Changes from another machine appear within a few hundred milliseconds of the file landing locally. No polling, no refresh button.
Gap reminders. Right-click a gap header to mark it reminder: true. A macOS notification fires at the gap’s wall-clock time on every day it exists in the rolling seven-day window. Silent banner, exact-time.
Area rename and color picker. Edit-area sheet rewrites the area name in place and lets you pick a color from the standard set. The folder on disk stays code-named; the displayed label updates.
Folder and subfolder rename. Same in-place rename for project folders and the one allowed level of subfolder grouping.
Per-app font scale. Custom slider in Settings; the app overrides macOS’s per-app dynamicTypeSize miss with an injected env that all the typography styles read.
Today-gaps in the reschedule popover. “Today @ HH:mm” pills underneath the calendar, so picking a date and a gap is one click.
Task migration on gap rename. Renaming a gap’s time updates every task that was assigned to the old time, so the schedule doesn’t drift.
Archive empty-state on leaf routes. Empty area or empty project pages now read as deliberate rest rather than missing content.
Section drag-reorder. Drag a section header within a project to reorder. (Known issue: persistence is unreliable across some launches; workaround is to hand-edit the project YAML. Tracked.)
Rename to DayGaps. All “chunks” / “DayChunks” references swept to “gaps” / “DayGaps”. Backward compatibility for legacy YAML keys is in the loader, so existing folders continue to read without manual conversion.

v0.2 · May 15, 2026

First build published from this site as a downloadable .app bundle.

Variant-aware app icon. Default, Dark, and Tinted PNGs compile into a single asset catalog that macOS Tahoe consumes for per-appearance Dock and Spotlight rendering. Replaces v0.1’s single-variant flow, where the icon was auto-desaturated to a “grayish ghost” in tinted contexts.
Standalone .app packaging. A Packaging/pack-app.sh script produces DayGaps.app directly from the SwiftPM source. No Xcode project to maintain in parallel. Bundle is ad-hoc signed; first launch on a new Mac needs right-click → Open to clear Gatekeeper.
Multi-Mac install pattern. Bundle identifier (com.daygaps.app) is stable across machines, so calendar permission and the data-folder choice persist when you drag a new build over an old one. Each Mac prompts once for Calendar access, then remembers.
Calendar permission key shipped. NSCalendarsFullAccessUsageDescription is now in the bundle Info.plist; the calendar inspector can actually request access from inside the packaged app (which swift run builds couldn’t).

In flight

Polishing inspector behavior across NavigationSplitView edge cases.
Pinning empty-state copy for the inbox and area-default routes.
Distribution path for non-self users (Developer ID + notarization). Parked until the private alpha cohort outgrows ad-hoc signing.

Alpha · April 28, 2026

Multi-window shipped. Right-click any project, date, or area → “open in new window.” Standalone windows hide the sidebar and inspector by design.
Area reordering regression fixed (sidebar drag now restores correctly after a relaunch).

Alpha · April 20, 2026

Self-backlog project retired; treat the p-2d3931.yaml file as sample data.
Sidebar wordmark updated to DayGaps (formerly DayChunks) ahead of a full rename.

Alpha · April 17, 2026

Area-default hidden project ships. One-off tasks now route to a per-area _default.yaml instead of requiring a real project.
Sort rule inside a chunk fixed in stone: group by project → area display order → filename → YAML order. No drag-to-reorder.

Pre-alpha

Plain-file substrate (YAML days + projects, Markdown scratchpad) finalized as the storage model.
Two-mode framing (planning vs. executing) baked into the design doc.