Changelog

What's shipped, and what's next.

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.

  • 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 daygaps@gmail.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 notebook) finalized as the storage model.
  • Two-mode framing (planning vs. executing) baked into the design doc.