Day Gaps on iPhone

The same gaps, the same data, on the device that's actually with you between meetings.

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.

Today is the default view. Same gaps the Mac is reading, in a single vertical column: a section per gap, tasks under each gap.

The iPhone Today view, with named gaps across the day and tasks under each one — The Today view on iPhone. Same data the Mac is reading, sized for your thumb.

Four gestures, same vocabulary everywhere

Day Gaps on iPhone uses the same gesture vocabulary on every list of tasks, so the gesture you learn in Today still works in This Week, in Deadlines, in Anyday, in an Area, in a project.

Tap a task to mark it done. The checkmark flips immediately and the strikethrough lands; the change syncs to iCloud in the background.

Leading swipe (drag right) sets the deadline. A calendar slides up; pick a day, save.

Trailing swipe (drag left) opens Reschedule. The same sheet lets you change the day AND pick which gap on that new day in one motion. (On the Mac these are two clicks; on the phone they collapse into one swipe + one tap.)

Long-press opens “Move to project.” An area-grouped picker comes up; pick a destination project (or an area’s General bucket), the task moves.

A task row showing the leading-swipe Deadline and trailing-swipe Reschedule reveals — The two halves of last-minute replanning. Pull one way to commit to a date; pull the other to push it.

Focus on one gap

Plans crowd up. The morning you’d named deep work now looks like a stack of mid-morning interruptions and your eye keeps drifting to them.

Tap a gap’s header to focus that gap. The other gaps hide. Carried Over and Anytime hide. The screen narrows to the block of time you’re actually trying to live inside. Tap the focused header again to come back to the full day.

(On the Mac, focus is a Pomodoro timer in the menu bar. Phones don’t have menu bars, so iPhone focus does what a phone is good at instead: filtering the screen.)

Bottom bar, contextual

The floating bottom bar carries the right buttons for the screen you’re on. On Today, that’s a quick-jump to today, a coral capture (+) for inbox, and a tray to open the inbox itself. The bar floats above the safe area in a glass material so the content behind stays visible.

The capture sheet on iPhone: one text field, save, cancel — Capture lives in your pocket. Triage lives on the desk.

This Week, vertical

Tap This Week in the sidebar to see the next seven days as scrollable sections. Today · Sat, May 30, Tomorrow · Sun, May 31, Mon, Jun 1, and so on. Each section lists what’s scheduled for that day. Today’s section title reads in coral so your eye lands there first.

A work-week toggle in the trailing menu hides Sat / Sun if Mon–Fri is the week you actually want to see. Setting persists.

(Mac’s This Week is horizontal columns side-by-side. iPhone’s is a vertical list. Same data, different shape per platform.)

The This Week view on iPhone, showing seven days as scrollable sections — A whole week of gaps, in your pocket.

Inbox is a pile, not a queue

Inbox items carry no date, no gap, no project. Just a title and a capture timestamp. Triage is the verb that moves an item into the right place.

Tap an inbox row, or swipe right, and an area-grouped picker appears: General buckets per area on top, projects under each. Pick a destination, the item becomes a task in that place and disappears from the inbox.

Swipe left on a row to delete the item outright. Long-press for the same actions in a menu.

What the phone doesn’t do (on purpose)

The Pomodoro timer. Mac feature. Focus on iPhone is the visual filter described above.
Renaming projects, archiving projects, deleting areas, reordering inside an area. Read-only on the phone. Structural changes happen at a desk.
Calendar integration. The Mac reads your calendar to show events alongside gaps; iPhone leans on the native Calendar app for that.
YAML bridge. Mac-only. If you want a plaintext copy of your data on disk, point the Mac at a folder; the phone reads CloudKit directly.

The line between the two devices is: planning and structural work on the Mac, last-minute replanning and capture on the phone. Both apps read and write the same iCloud zone, so the two views agree.

Getting it

Day Gaps for iPhone is on internal TestFlight alongside the Mac beta. Both ship together.

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When you accept the TestFlight invitation, the app installs like any other TestFlight build. On first launch it signs into your iCloud account automatically — no folder picker, no Dropbox setup, no Files-app permission. If you’ve also installed the Mac app on the same iCloud account, your data is already there.