DayGaps on iPhone and iPad
The same gaps, the same data, on the device that's actually with you between meetings.
The iPhone and iPad apps read from your iCloud zone, the same one the Mac uses. Open the phone on the bus, between meetings, in line for coffee. Today shows the gaps you planned this morning, and a few gestures let you bend the day when it bends on you.
What’s on the phone
Since 1.1 the iPhone and iPad are full peers of the Mac. The sidebar has the same destinations: Today, Deadlines, Anyday, Inbox and Plan, a Pinned section for the projects you keep at the top, and each of your Areas with its projects beneath it. Project pages, area pages, Deadlines and Plan are the same pages as on the Mac, with the same actions: rename a project, set its deadline, edit its notes, add sections, filter by tag.
Today is where the phone opens. The same gaps the Mac shows, in one column: Carried over at the top, a section for each gap with its tasks, then Anytime. A gap that falls inside a calendar event names the event. When the tasks on screen carry #tags or belong to more than one area, chips at the top filter the page, as on the Mac.
One row at the bottom
Every page ends in the same row. Calendar on the left opens the calendar panel: your events and the open windows between them, the panel the Mac shows beside the page. Capture on the right sends a thought to the Inbox from anywhere. Between them sits the now island: the gap that matters now, its ring counting down, and the time left.
Focus on the gap you are in
Tap the now island and the focus card opens: the gap’s times, the calendar event it falls inside, a pie of tasks done, the time left, and the gap’s tasks. Ticking them off is the only thing to do there. A light tap of the phone tells you the card has settled, and a fainter one answers each task you check off.
The headers of Anytime and Carried over open the same card, so a task waiting there can be done where it is, without scheduling it first.
Gestures
Tap a task’s checkbox to mark it done. The row itself has no tap, so a stray touch never completes anything.
Swipe from the left to schedule a task: one sheet sets its day and its gap.
Swipe from the right to select a task. Selected rows gather, and a bar in the accent glass offers Schedule, Deadline, Move, Subtask and Delete for all of them at once. Deleting several tasks is undone in one step: shake to undo.
The gestures are the same on every list of tasks, so what you learn in Today works in Deadlines, Anyday, an area or a project.
iPad
On the iPad the sidebar is one long list, as on the Mac, with the wordmark at its foot. It can be hidden and widened. The overview’s boxes fold two by two when the inspector is narrow.
What stays on the Mac
- The menu-bar timer. Command-click a gap’s header on the Mac to time it. On the phone, the now island and the focus card carry the countdown.
- The bridge. The plain-text copy of your data for an editor, git or an AI assistant is a Mac feature. The phone reads iCloud directly.
Widgets
The Home Screen widget is built from the focus card’s pieces: the gap and its pie, the time left while it runs, its first tasks, and the day’s other gaps when there is room.
Getting it
DayGaps for iPhone and iPad is in TestFlight, by invitation, alongside the Mac beta.
When you accept the TestFlight invitation, the app installs like any other TestFlight build. On first launch it signs into your iCloud account automatically: there is nothing to configure and no permission to grant beyond iCloud itself. If you also use the Mac app on the same iCloud account, your data is already there.