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Improvements

  • When someone has a birthday today, there's now an indicator on the "People" menu item in the main menu on top
  • Arrow Left and Arrow Right were added for switching between different people in the relationship tracker
  • When converting a scheduled task into a recurring one, the start date (if set) is respected and preserved
  • There's now the option to export your relationships as part of data export

Fixes

  • Fixed many shortcuts not working when the cursor is focused in text fields or our Markdown editor
  • Fixed closing task detail requiring Escape to be pressed twice when the task description editor is focused
  • Fixed CMD+2 and CMD+3 shortcuts for jumping into notes and habits being switched
  • Fixed CMD+5 / Ctrl+5 keyboard shortcuts not working to jump into the relationship tracker
  • Fixed P keyboard shortcut to pin a task or note not working due to conflict with a shortcut to jump to the relationship tracker – use R now to go to the relationship tracker
  • Fixed today column highlight being shown on previous pages in the habit tracker
  • Fixed today column highlight height in some edge cases
  • Fixed full-screen window mode on working on macOS
  • Fixed the main menu on top not removing extra space on the left when in full-screen mode on macOS
  • Other minor visual and other fixes

Features

  • Relationship Tracking, our take on a Personal CRM was added featuring fully customizable fields, beautiful hierarchy visualization, reconnect rules, and memories timeline with journal integration
  • Two new task list workflows were added – a new Priority List (semi-structured status-less flat list) and Plan Your Week (with sections for each of the next seven days)
  • You can now go back in history in the habit tracker
  • Goal detail now shows completed tasks belonging to the goal at the bottom of the list and the main list of tasks for an area also now shows tasks completed today – no need to dig for them in the logbook
  • You can now create new tasks simply by dragging over an empty space in the calendar

Improvements

  • The app and its main navigation were redesigned
  • Now / Later and Eisenhower Matrix are now a status-less workflows
  • Task status previously named Started was renamed to In progress
  • The “Review old tasks” workflow is now gone as it is basically replaced with the new Simple Workflow
  • Bulk scheduling support was added to the quick scheduling dialog triggered by S keyboard shortcut
  • Various minor changes to how tasks are sorted across all workflows
  • You can now reschedule current occurrence of a recurring task without affecting future occurrences
  • Opacity was removed from the task progress indicator when from subtasks progress is calculated automatically from completed subtasks (as that is usually the main way of tracking progress anyway)
  • Pending and completed tasks are now shown separately in search results
  • You can now quickly jump to the journal entry for a specific day using a small calendar in the journal sidebar
  • All text fields and inputs across the app now have right-click context menus with regular items like Cut/Copy/Paste
  • Tasks in search results now show the goal they belongs to
  • The exact progress in percentage is now shown when hovering over the goal progress indicator in the goal list
  • Quick Add was removed from the settings and was shut down
  • New Shift+T keyboard shortcut to go to the previous area in the list
  • Locking and unlocking the journal, protected notebooks, or relationships section are now global actions – you can freely switch between these until the unlock period runs out
  • The app now loads much faster and eats less memory thanks to a new storage engine previously powering Lunatask for iOS and Android
  • Other minor improvements and fixes

Fixes

  • Window controls are now at an intuitive place in the top right corner of the window on Windows
  • The app window no longer grows while dragging when the display zoom/scale is set to a value other than 100% in Windows settings
  • Fixed search sometimes not jumping to a search result when pressing Enter
  • Fixed dragging, for example, a 15-minute task onto the calendar for the second time creating 1-hour long time block (or whatever the default time block length is set to in the settings)
  • Date picker for past dates now correctly suggests past dates instead of future ones for queries like "Monday"
  • Fixed next occurrence date calculation when completing after completion tasks earlier

Improvements

  • You can now assign icons to goals the same you do for areas
  • The "Next to work on" overview now features a goal list below the list of areas, showing only goals with actionable tasks
  • The natural language parser for setting up recurring tasks now understands "workday", which is an alias for the existing "weekday"
  • A confirmation message was added when completing a task with incomplete subtasks
  • Clicking a tag on notes in the note list now filters on that tag
  • Allow tracking habits with a single click in the habit tracker when Space or Shift is held
  • Improved keyboard navigation around inline code marks in the note editor
  • The tooltip upon hovering over the section name in the task list now shows how many tasks are in the section and how many of them are without an estimate
  • The video conference join link is now shown in the tooltip when hovering over the button to join the call
  • The task progress indicator is now larger to improve readability
  • Creating a note while filtering on some tags now creates a note with those tags
  • Other minor improvements and fixes

Fixes

  • Fixed area goal filter being applied after switching from an area into the "Next to work on" overview

Improvements

  • The look of the journal was refreshed and is now more consistent with the new look of the notes section
  • You can now explicitly lock the protected journal and notebooks using the new "lock" button in the header
  • Changing note font size now changes the font size in the journal as well
  • "Later" tasks are now automatically moved into "next" after dragging them onto the calendar
  • Deleting tasks using Backspace or Delete now requires confirmation to prevent accidental deletions
  • Note list now ignores leading emojis when sorting notes by name
  • Goal descriptions now collapse when too long, so one does not have to scroll all the time to see tasks belonging to the goal
  • Allow connecting to CalDAV calendars without credentials
  • Improved indication that a subscription was canceled but is still active until a certain date in the settings
  • Added support for videoconference link parsing for Technische Universität München (BBB TUM) to all calendar integrations
  • Added illustrations to blank slates and the premium feature upgrade modal
  • The deprecated ability to assign mood and emotions to notes is now removed
  • Other minor visual improvements and fixes

Fixes

  • The mood tracker popup no longer overflows the window when a journal entry gets long
  • Fixed recurring tasks marked as waiting showing up in the "Next to work on" overview
  • The statistic for how many months one is journaling now counts only months with at least a single journal entry
  • Fixed date badges on tasks not re-rendering correctly at midnight
  • Fixed switching between different months in the journal not scrolling the view to the top
  • Fixed the journal's month picker overflowing the window when journaling for more months than fits the available screen height
  • Fixed Shift+Arrow Left / Shift+Arrow Right keyboard shortcuts not working on tasks marked as waiting
  • The whole CalDAV sync now does not fail when facing an issue parsing a single event (it now just skips it and continues)
  • Fixed emacs keybinding Ctrl-F not working on Mac due to conflict with search
  • Fixed videoconference link extraction not working for Zoom subdomains with dashes
  • Fixed drag and drop of tasks initiating dragging immediately when the mouse moves even a single pixel, leading to accidental drags instead of clicks (threshold is now 4px to mimic native behavior and mirror the same behavior in the area/goal list and its drag and drop implementation)
  • Added protection for edge cases where local data from previous login might not be properly purged for whatever reason
  • Fixed note name animation flickering

This update brings back the task visibility setting on goals removed in the last update (without the option to hide all tasks). You can now find it in the goal settings modal. No other changes in this update.

Features

  • There's now a brand-new overview of the next tasks to work on across all areas

Improvements

  • The area/goal list is now resizable
  • You can choose the initial status for newly created tasks individually per each of your areas instead of it being a global setting
  • A new menu was added to the note list, allowing you to customize the look of notes in the list (including the new option to hide content preview)
  • Logbook now shows the total number of completed tasks
  • Quick note can now be exported as a journal entry
  • Due dates happening in the next 7 days are now highlighted in yellow on goals
  • Formatting toolbar was added to goal descriptions
  • "Planned tasks" were renamed "actionable tasks"
  • Waiting tasks are no longer considered actionable
  • Badges on individual areas in the area list are now much larger
  • Started tasks now have a badge in "Now / Later" and "Review old tasks" workflows, similar to how waiting tasks are indicated
  • You can toggle whether a task/note is pinned using P keyboard shortcut
  • Navigation shortcuts were revamped and new shortcuts were added:
    • T to go to tasks (or the next area in the list)
    • H to go to habits
    • J to go to journal
    • N to go to notes
    • M to open mood tracker/journaling popup for today
    • 0 to open "Next to work on" overview in tasks
  • Notes now visually indicate if a note is used as a template in the header
  • Tasks can now be created inside goals using the API
  • Minor visual and other improvements

Fixes

  • The progress indicator on tasks was fixed, so it is now shown even when there are zero completed subtasks

Removals

  • The option to set task visibility for goals was removed
  • Keyboard shortcut N for creating tasks/notes was removed, use A instead

Improvements

  • Goals now show up in search results, so you can use the search to navigate to a certain goal
  • The order of search results was adjusted and search results in the currently opened section of the app (tasks, notes, journal, etc.) are always shown first
  • Various improvements to new user onboarding
  • Assigning mood and emotions to notes is now deprecated and will be removed in the next major update (learn more here)

Fixes

  • When a protected notebook gets locked, for example, by backgrounding the app, the user unlocks it, then the app now correctly shows the previously selected note again

Before Lunatask got a proper journaling implementation in the spring of last year, one could use notes and their ability to have a mood, energy level, and emotions attached.

This was a workaround for the time being until the dedicated journaling section gets implemented. Since barely anyone uses this feature these days, we are deprecating it and will remove it in the next major update.

Lunatask v1.7.5 will start showing an in-app deprecation warning, and the feature will be removed in v1.7.7 in October.

Improvements

  • You can now assign a color to each area to differentiate, for example, personal from work-related tasks on the calendar
  • Auto-linking in notes now supports localhost and ipv4 addresses
  • The option to "Paste and Match Style" was added to the right-click context menu on the editor
  • Other minor improvements to auto-linking making it more reliable

Fixes

  • Fixed a regression causing pasting from the clipboard into the editor not to work for copied HTML content containing heading elements
  • Fixed a regression causing links containing parenthesis not to be auto-linked
  • Fixed the auto-linking toggling on and off when editing existing links

Improvements

  • The look of note detail was refreshed a bit
  • You can now reschedule the current occurrence of recurring tasks using date-based scheduling, as it was not previously possible without losing the recurrence rule
  • 1/2/3/4/5/8 days estimate options were added to tasks
  • Pressing CMD+1/Ctrl+1 when already in the tasks section now cycles through areas instead of doing nothing
  • It is now possible to set the Eisenhower matrix value using the right-click context menu (including the bulk-edit context menu)
  • The public link is now automatically copied to the clipboard when clicked in the note-sharing dialog
  • Medium and large font sizes for notes are now a bit larger

Fixes

  • Fixed many edge cases in our Markdown editor's auto-linking functionality
  • Fixed checking a checkbox in notes scrolling the page to the top
  • Fixed pressing Enter on a completed checkbox item creating a new checked checkbox item below it instead of a fresh unchecked one
  • Typing a letter between two backticks in notes now correctly changes the text to inline code
  • Other minor editor improvements and fixes