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Features

  • You can now display charts showing what your mood, energy and stress levels are doing over time and compare them with previous periods
  • The journal now shows statistics like the total number of journal entries, your current streak, and how many months you have been journaling to keep you motivated

Improvements

  • Improved the UI for creating repeating tasks so it better explains what "after completion" does
  • Improved reliability of iCloud calendar sync when there's an issue processing recurrence rule for an event
  • Improvements to dark mode in habit and mood trackers
  • Improvements to onboarding for new users

Fixes

  • Fixed the mood tracker for the current day switching to the next day in front of your eyes at midnight, possibly in the middle of writing your journal entry
  • Fixed the order of tags in the note list being inconsistent with the order of tags in the note header
  • Fixed a race condition sometimes causing the UI to crash during sign out
  • Disallow users from entering “every day at 8” as a task recurrence rule and prevent a potential crash in that case
  • Fixed the button to open a task in the calendar not working correctly for tasks in collapsed sections
  • Attempt to fix the app losing the local copy of data and logging the user out when the machine runs low on disk space

Improvements

  • Added Shift+Arrow Left and Shift+Arrow Right keyboard shortcuts to change the status/motivation/eisenhower value of the selected task
  • Tasks are now automatically marked as started when the timer is started
  • The app window is draggable by the top also in the settings
  • Note sharing icon in the note header is now highlighted while the note is being shared publicly
  • Added in-app toast notifications to various events in the app

Fixes

  • iCloud reminder lists now do not show among the list of available calendars
  • Fixed repeated adding new task into collapsed section temporarily uncollapsing the section correctly only every other time
  • The task repeat settings modal window is now scrollable to avoid overflow on small screens

Features

  • Added support for connecting iCloud, Fastmail, and any other calendar supporting CalDAV protocol
  • Notes can now be shared publicly on the internet by creating a public link and sharing it with friends, colleagues, etc. Opening the link will allow anyone to see the read-only version of the note in their browsers.
  • The formatting toolbar was added to notes, journal entries, and task descriptions
  • The right-click context menu on tasks now supports bulk operations for updating status, motivation, priority, and moving selected tasks between lists
  • You can now set a start/end date for repeating tasks
  • When a habit is scheduled by setting the time of day in habit settings or by dragging the habit onto the calendar, the time is now shown as well on the habit itself in the habit tracker (and in red if the time is in the past). Also, the menu badge will not count in the habit until the specified time has passed as the habit is not actionable until that time.
  • The first link found in task descriptions is now extracted and a button to quickly visit the link is shown on the task itself in the list. The link extraction can be disabled in the settings. Note that the link won’t be extracted retroactively for existing task descriptions. You will have to modify the existing task description somehow first.
  • You can now save a note as a Markdown file to your local file system
  • It is now possible to Shift+Click to select a range of tasks
  • The Linux version is now distributed also as AppImage, not just Snap

Improvements

  • Similar to areas, note list sort is now persisted per notebook
  • Styling of checked checkboxes is now unified across all platforms
  • Premium workflow/grouping options are now dimmed out when on Free plan
  • Custom window drag areas were disabled on Linux as there is a native titlebar to do the job
  • Buttons to add new integrations were redesigned + minor visual consistency improvements across the app, icon and color updates, etc.
  • Improved performance and reliability of initial data sync

Fixes

  • Repeating tasks now use a new engine to calculate dates of occurrences as the previous one had issues in some cases. Let us know if you notice any issues with scheduling repeating tasks after the update.
  • Fixed creating notes for repeating events coming from the Outlook calendar
  • Fixed a regression causing weekly habits to ignore changes of the week start day setting
  • Fixed the calendar not returning back after scroll properly between midnight and 1AM
  • Fixed the calendar sometimes creating white duplicate events while dragging and ending up in a broken state
  • Fixed "Copy All as Markdown" right-click menu option of the editor containing backslashes for empty lines when copied
  • Fixed the browser bookmarklet not creating clickable links in task descriptions. Please, delete your existing bookmarklet and create a new one to get this fixed.

Fixes

  • Fixed declined events showing up in the calendar when using Google Calendar integration
  • Fixed the inability to authorize Outlook calendar integration with Office 365 even after organization admin consent is given
  • Fixed the inability to connect multiple different Outlook accounts due to the consent window not offering an option to sign in with a different Microsoft account
  • Fixed authentication window for both Google and Outlook closing in some cases prematurely when using third-party 2FA service where Lunatask would confuse 2FA response to Google/Outlook for Google's/Outlook's response to Lunatask

Improvements

  • The search is now word order independent
  • List items in the Markdown editor can be moved to up/down in the list with Alt+Arrow Up / Alt+Arrow Down
  • All keyboard shortcuts should now work even with caps lock on
  • You can now use [] to create a checkbox list besides the existing [ ], saving one keyboard press in our Markdown editor
  • Improved energy/busy level picker colors in dark mode

Fixes

  • Fixed the cursor not visible when on an item without any text in the checkbox list
  • Fixed the logbook not working properly in the flat list grouping or when no incomplete tasks in the area
  • Fixed the navigation keyboard shortcut triggered when typing a number into task name input for some users
  • Fixed the price for a yearly plan in the pricing table showing AUD 110.99000000000001 for users in Australia in the Mac App Store app version

Features

  • No need to use notes for your journaling needs anymore. With the new Daily Journal in Lunatask, all your journal entries now live in one place and are integrated directly into the mood tracker.
  • The integration with the Outlook calendar was added. You can now connect your Outlook / Office 365 calendar to see your meetings and events directly next to your tasks. It even extracts video conference links for quick one-click joining.

Improvements

  • Running task timer now shows in the menubar item on Mac
  • Notes can now have a date attached to them
  • You can now manually pick a color for each of your habits and color-code them in a way that is meaningful to you + there are three new colors to choose from (eight in total)
  • Areas and notebooks now show up in search results for quick navigation via the keyboard
  • Initial task time block length when no estimate set can be now configured in the settings
  • Added "when 5/6 started tasks" option to the work-in-progress limit setting
  • The option to pin the note to the top of the list was added directly to the note header
  • The visual look of the habit tracker was refreshed

Fixes

  • Task scheduling calendar now respects the week start day set in the settings
  • Dragging the habit from the habit widget onto the calendar now respects the time needed set in the habit settings
  • Fixed auto-linking now working properly with inline code blocks in the editor
  • Fixed auto-scrolling when navigating in search results with arrow up/down on the keyboard
  • Fixed setting busy levels on notes
  • Fixed task names not updating in real-time in front of your eyes when changed on another device. They were shy I guess.
  • Fixed code blocks overflowing the note detail out of the screen in notes

Improvements

  • Added a system notification when the task timer finishes. The existing audio bell stays in place in case you're working in "Do not disturb"/notifications off.

Fixes

  • Fixed select inputs breaking and not allowing click after a modal window is opened and closed

Features

  • Added Quick Note, a Markdown scratchpad persisted and synced across all your devices you can open next to your tasks for stuff like quick notes during meetings, checklists, reminders, etc.
  • Notes can now be tagged and the note list filtered by tags
  • To simplify creating new tasks from your email conversations an email integration was added. Now you can generate a unique email address for each of your tasks lists. Sending or forwarding an email will then result in creating a task using the subject of the email as the name of the task and its body as the attached note.
  • As a companion to the mood and energy level tracker, this update adds a tracker to track how busy/overwhelmed you were on each day
  • Save any internet link or article into Lunatask directly from your browser with just one click using our browser bookmarklet – great for reading lists.

Improvements

  • Visual improvements throughout the app, mainly but not limited to task detail footer, mood tracker, habit groups, and notes. As well as dark mode fixes or more consistent color usage throughout the UI.
  • Besides a natural language parser, task scheduling now features a clickable calendar
  • The search modal now shows whether the task in search results is completed or not
  • Running task timer in the area is now indicated via the area menu item badge
  • The note list now shows the timestamp of the last change and allows to sort notes by when the last change was made (configurable in the settings)
  • The note move dialog now allows moving notes out the any notebook
  • The value on Eisenhower Matrix can now be cleared
  • The work-in-progress limit reached message now shows also in Eisenhower Matrix grouping
  • The mood tracker now shows the date selected
  • The application now minimizes into a system tray on close on Windows
  • Lunatask will now prefer Helvetica Neue when installed on the system over the default system font like Segoe UI on Windows, or Ubuntu Font on Ubuntu

Fixes

  • Fixed a timezone issue causing repeating tasks to shift by one day in some cases
  • The minimum window height was reduced so Lunatask works well on screens as small as 1024x768 pixels
  • Fixed search modal background color glitch when scrolling

Improvements

  • Improvements to real-time data sync to cover some edge cases ahead of mobile app beta release

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where password-protected notebooks could not be unlocked immediately after signup

Improvements

  • New app icon
  • Time blocks now snap in place in 5-minute intervals instead of 15-minute ones while dragging for more precise planning

Fixes

  • Improved reliability of the local data storage persistence, especially on Linux. It turned out that IndexedDB implementation in Chromium for Linux is not very reliable. That led to silent disconnections of the storage and some app data not being properly persisted into the local database when the app run for a long time.