Changes

• Editing a task now trimms whitespaces in title and notes
• Minor improvements to edit task view layout
• Added option to include inbox tasks in app badge
• Support for dynamic text sizes

Fixed

• Shows defer entry in context menu more reliable
• Area order when sorting list by area
• Sorting by date within sections is newest first
• Performance improvements in lists

Changes

• “New Project” entry in area context menu
• Better “Next” task context menu
• Shows future next starting dates in list, even if sorted by date
• Regular confirmation dialogs when deleting projects or areas
• Showing “No Project” group again

Fixed

• Checkmark App Icon preview
• Fixed an issue sorting lists by date
• Improved task editor tabs
• Missing save/cancel button in new task in calendar [iPhone]
• Fixed project order in compact sidebar
• Improved checklist layout [macOS]

Tags

• You can assign tags to each task
• You can easily filter lists by tags
• Group tags with subtags
• Optionally mark subtags as mutually exclusive

Areas

• Group projects into different areas
• Focus on one area by hiding everything else
• Set separate daily task limits per area
• Sort lists by areas

Next Starting Dates

• Next Tasks can now have a starting date
• When next tasks repeat, they are no longer converted to planned tasks
• Deferring next tasks no longer converts them to planned tasks
• Remove hide next tasks on non-workdays option, since they can now be scheduled

Drag & Drop

• You can drag tasks to other apps to insert their titles
• You can drag text into lists to insert new tasks
• You can drag tasks from Things into Focused
• Areas are re-orderable in the sidebar
• Projects are re-orderable in the sidebar

App Icons

• Improved the three checkmarks icon
• Added supported for dark & tinted icons
• Added checkmark + calendar icon
• Added checkmark + dots icon

Control Center Widget

• You can now add tasks right from your control center or lockscreen

Other Changes

• Actual task inbox
• Renamed subtasks to checklist
• Counts subtasks in today progress calculation
• Option to hide the today progress bar
• Fixed repeating tasks date calculation
• Projects and priorties in context menus now show the current selection
• Context menu shows actual dates in next day / next available day options
• Relative dates now use weekdays if in the current week
• More opacity for subtasks when completed
• Stability & performance improvements
• Sort list menu now includes icons [iOS]
• Unlocked list sorting for free users
• Unlocked projects for free users
• Improved list animations
• Better readable overdue red in dark mode
• Improved compact sidebar layout
• Improved sorting tasks in lists (completed > priority > completed subtasks > date > project)

Changes

• Improved animations
• Separate task background color for calendar
• Improved adding subtasks

Fixed

• Edit Task Layout [visionOS]
• No weird animations when switching lists [iOS]
• Fix daily progress with archived tasks
• Fixed potential crash when deleting a task
• Sorting done tasks to the bottom in lists
• Fixed switching tabs in edit view
• Layout fixes in lists

Subtasks

• You can now add subtasks to your tasks
• Option to automatically complete tasks on completing all subtasks

Widgets

• Option to show/hide anytime tasks in today widget
• Shows notes in large and extra large widgets
• Added a widget to quickly open today/planned/later/archive
• Added a widget to quickly open projects
• Added a widget to show specifically anytime tasks

Intents

• Added Open Project Intent
• Added intents to open today/next/later/archive
• Properly localised all intents

Changes

• Updated main list design
• Dropped sort order in archive
• Anytime Tasks are now called Next Tasks
• Option to hide the coloured task background
• Option to keep the compact sidebar always displayed
• Added an icon indicating repeating tasks in lists
• Improved animations in lists

Fixed

• Progress lock-screen widget now counts archived tasks too
• CMD+N new task is now also context sensitive

Changes

• Added archive to menu in lists [iOS]
• Shows notes in drag preview again [iOS]
• Widget layout adjustments to match app

Fixed

• Icons in tutorial project
• List padding [macOS]

New

• Option to hide anytime tasks except on workdays
• Animations when rescheduling in calendar
• Navigation menu when sidebar is collapsed [macOS]

Changes

• When manually moving a task to a full day in calendar, with strict mode enabled, another task will be automatically defered
• When saving longer texts in the share extension, they are now truncated and moved to the notes field
• Force larger minimum window size when in calendar mode [macOS]
• Allow smaller minimum window size [macOS]

Fixed

• Generating the tutorial project
• Fixed layout issues in task lists

Share Extension

• Create new tasks directly from the share sheet in other apps

Repeatings Tasks

• Set tasks to automatically create a copy after a specific time

New

• Anytime Tasks now be optionally deferred, which converts them to planned tasks
• Anytime tasks can now be optionally displayed in the calendar view
• Options to skip the archive/defer all/clean up confirmations
• New task in context menu on projects in sidebar
• Shows anytime icon on tasks in list
• Shows the scheduled date in lists

Changes

• Combined clean up and defer task buttons into one menu
• No longer shows priorities on tasks, in lists sorted by priority
• New tasks in project views default to “later”
• Changed priorities to more common flag icons
• You can drag and drop items between sections in lists
• Added padding to list bottoms [iOS]
• Split the edit task view in four different pages
• Added a persistent navigation sidebar [iOS]
• Improved month layout [iPhone]
• Show notes in today view

Fixed

• Calendar days calculation in months with leap seconds
• Preselecting the wrong date when double tapping in calendar
• Updates list after priority change in context menu

Changes

• Archived in calendar are now displayed with some alpha
• When strict mode is disabled, you can add tasks on past days by double clicking in the calendar
• Non-archived, done tasks are now still shown in project lists
• Added context menu entry to schedule tasks “anytime”

Fixed

• Auto defer task to “next day” now correctly defers overdue tasks to today
• Fixed a broken task state when dragging a task to today in the sidebar
• You can uncheck und unarchive tasks from the archive view
• Fixed today task count in sidebar and app badge

Changes

• Adjusted the edit project view layout
• Slightly increased task size in lists [iOS]
• Changed auto archiving options to immediately | daily | manually
• Option to show archived tasks in calendar view

Fixed

• Improved footers layout in settings [macOS]
• Fixed button colors in onboarding
• Fixed syncing with iCloud

New Onboarding

• Better explains the task limits in Focused
• Let’s you configure the app during the initial setup
• Added an optional tutorial project

Archive Tasks

• Archiving old, done tasks can improve the app performance
• Archive now sorts tasks by completion date
• Auto archive tasks after a set time

VisionOS

• Native support for visionOS

Changes

• Switched to a scrollable month view on iPhone in portrait too
• You can now pick a symbol for each project
• Removed projects list view, as they are now in the main/sidebar view
• Shows today view on launch [iPhone]

Fixed

• Preselected first free day instead of today in some case for a new task
• Done anytime tasks are removed from the today view after a day
• General performance improvements
• Minor layout improvements

Changes

• Minor layout changes in sidebar counts
• Anytime tasks now also have a “Later” entry in the context menu

Fixes

• Fix top bar layout [iOS]
• Add task button now works on the main view too [iPhone]
• Today’s tasks are correctly labelled “Today” instead of with todays date in lists
• Anytime tasks now also count towards today count in sidebar