Changelog — Ember

1.3.5 Oct 19, 2026 Latest

Focus time: a short list of what you are actually doing today. A panel down the right of Tasks that you drag cards onto. It is not another lane — a card you drop in stays exactly where it was on the board, so taking it back out costs nothing.
It tells you whether the day has room for what you picked. It adds up how long those cards should take and sets that against the hours you actually have left — after your routines, the time you have blocked out and anything on your calendar. Go over and it says by how much, and names the one card that tips it over, so you know which to drop. A task with no estimate counts as nothing and says so, rather than being quietly guessed at.
Start focus begins timing the first one. It is Ember's own timer, so the time lands on your calendar like any other tracked run.
It folds away to a rail, the way Catch-up does on the calendar, and the board takes the width back — folded, it still shows the count and the capacity bar turned on its side. Drag the rows to change the order Start works through. Your picks are a day's: tomorrow starts empty on its own.
If you would rather not have it, switch it off in Customize ▸ Board lanes.

1.3.4 Oct 19, 2026

Routines is one week, not fourteen. Every routine was a card carrying its own week, its own pair of arrows and its own row of seven squares — so fourteen routines drew fourteen week headers, and no two weeks lined up. Now it is one grid: a row for each routine, a column for each day, one set of arrows. You can read down a day as easily as across a routine, which is the whole point of a tracker. Each row leads with its category's icon and ends with its streak.
Today sits beside it, drawn to scale. A rail down the right shows the day in the order it happens, with the gaps left as gaps — and the long ones labelled, so an empty afternoon says 2h 30m free. The rail fills to the current minute, so how far through the day you are is something you glance at rather than read. Above it, what is up next, with a button to check it off.
Task cards are a third shorter. The name comes first and biggest; the category, the date and the checklist count share one quiet line underneath. The filled category pill is a dot, and the progress bar has gone — the count above it already said that. A lane now shows about eleven cards where it showed six.
Notes can highlight. Six colours, shown as colours rather than named in a list, with a way to take one off. Bullets come in three kinds — dot, circle and square — behind the arrow next to the bullet button, and the toolbar is grouped by what its buttons actually do.
Sixty-six category icons, and a box to find one. Twenty was not enough for a planner with fourteen categories. Type what you mean — money finds the wallet, gym the dumbbell, sleep the bed.
Settings ▸ Workspaces is two screens instead of folding boxes. A list of workspaces, and a page for each one holding its name, colour, icon and categories. The icon and colour pickers open over the page rather than pushing everything below them down.
A column the list has already grouped by is left out of it. Grouped by category, every row under Side Hustle no longer says Side Hustle again.
The sidebar's brand line spans the panel, its folded icons all line up, and the overdue badge is a dot rather than a number you read every time.

1.3.3 Oct 4, 2026

A swimlane stays exactly where you left it. Scroll down a lane, change a card's category, and the lane used to slide up a little — and if you were at the last task, that task disappeared off the bottom. The cause was a speed trick that let the page skip measuring cards you could not see, which meant it did not know how tall the lane really was and put you back in the wrong place. It is gone, and the position now holds to the pixel wherever you are parked.
The list view scrolls properly on a big planner. The same trick meant a long list thought it was one screen tall, so it could not be scrolled past the first dozen rows at all. A long table now draws its first 60 rows and offers the rest on a Show more button, the way a board lane already did.
Tasks is faster with it. On a planner with 1,500 tasks, a change that redraws the list went from well over a second to under a tenth of one; the board now redraws in about three hundredths of a second.
Find a category by typing. Once you have more than eight, the category menu gets a box at the top — start typing and the list narrows, Enter takes the first match. It used to open wherever the list happened to sit and leave you scrolling to the bottom every time.
Assigning a hidden category tells you. Filing something into a category you have switched off in the sidebar makes it vanish from the screen, which reads as losing it. Now it says where it went.
Ask for something on the roadmap page itself, instead of being sent to GitHub. Requests show in their own column and can be voted on.

1.3.2 Oct 4, 2026

Attachments open in the planner. Click a file's name and it shows here rather than being handed to whatever your computer would open it with: PDFs with page navigation, zoom and print; images; plain text; and spreadsheets as a table, with their sheets as tabs, dates read properly and a formula's result shown. Opening it in your own app is a button, not the only way. Anything Ember cannot show says so and points you at the app that can.
The board works across all workspaces. It used to be switched off there. Now it is one board per workspace, stacked and each collapsible, so no two workspaces' lanes are ever merged by name. Adding a task at a lane's foot lands in that lane's workspace, and dragging a card onto another workspace's board moves it there, category and subtasks included.
A board lane keeps its place. Changing a card's category, ticking one, or anything else that redrew the page used to throw a scrolled lane back to the top. Checked across thirteen different things that cause a redraw, on both kinds of board.
The streak log shows three months, stepped by one control, instead of a whole year at once — and its key now names only what is actually on the screen, usually two things rather than five. The numbers above it are no longer clipped as you scroll.
A step inside a task reads as a step in the list: smaller, set in, and without the fill and the marker that made five steps look like five more tasks.
The workspace at the top of the sidebar is drawn as a control — a box, with the word Workspace over its name — because it is the one thing up there you press.

1.3.1 Oct 4, 2026

Routines can repeat monthly, on a day of the month — which is what a bill is. A month with no 31st uses its last day, so nothing is quietly skipped.
Subtasks can carry a day of their own (switch it on in Customize ▸ Task details), and the list opens the steps inside a task underneath it.
The dashboard follows your accent colour. All five sections take the colour you picked instead of four of them ignoring it, and are told apart by weight rather than by hue.
Right-clicking a misspelled word shows the suggestions. It did nothing at all before — Electron ships no menu of its own, so the app had to build one.
Routines, notes and blocked-out time can move workspace, the way tasks already could.
Quiet hours, the sidebar and the folded sidebar all tidied: one grid behind every row, the brand on its own line, and hover labels that now work at every width rather than only some.
Tracked time against a task in one workspace no longer draws on another workspace's calendar.
A new download page, a public roadmap and this changelog.

1.3.0 Sep 29, 2026

Workspaces. The planner divides into as many as six separate planners — Personal, Studio, whatever you need — each with its own categories, board lanes, tasks, routines, notes, documents and tracked time. Switch and the whole sidebar changes with you.
An All workspaces view, for when you do want to see the lot at once.
The dashboard always shows every workspace, and says so, because today does not belong to one part of your life.
Categories belong to a workspace and are edited where the workspaces are, in Settings, under the workspace they belong to.
A task moves workspace from its panel, taking its lane, its category and its subtasks with it.
The sidebar is one row at the top — the mark, then the workspace switcher — and names what the pointer is on when it is folded to its icons.
The dashboard reads as cards rather than ruled columns, with its five sections in five colours.
Coloured stripes down the left edge of things are gone from every screen.
A planner from 1.2.3 carries over whole: its boards become workspaces and nothing moves.

1.2.3 Sep 29, 2026

Drag a block on the calendar to another day or hour. Tasks and blocked-out time move outright; a routine asks whether you meant this day only, this day onward, or the whole routine.
The dashboard became three columns that each scroll inside themselves, so a long schedule can no longer push what is overdue off the bottom of the page.
Quiet hours, a night at a time. Each night of the week keeps its own window, so weekends can start later than Tuesdays.
A missed routine day can be let off, so a week away does not end a streak.
More than one board, each with its own lanes — later replaced by workspaces in 1.3.0.
Walk back through earlier weeks on a routine’s card, and a cleaner streak log.
Enter saves a subtask and opens the next one.
The task panel gained a picker for which board a task is on, beside its lane.
The Notes guided tour’s first tip came back after the button it pointed at was removed.

1.2.2 Sep 29, 2026

Streaks with no ceiling. The whole history counts rather than the last year, so a year-old run is no longer capped and a routine due twice a year can still be made up.
A streak log: the year drawn as twelve calendars, every square a day you can still check off, over four numbers — current run, best ever, times kept, and how many of the days it was due.
A streak counts times kept rather than days, so a weekly review reads “28 Fridays”.

1.2.1 Sep 24, 2026

Light is the default, and only you change it — the planner no longer follows the computer unless you ask it to.
Backups say whether they worked. A folder that had been moved, renamed or was on a drive that was not plugged in used to fail in silence and still report success.
Settings › Account › Run setup again, without throwing anything away.
Setup’s categories step became chips with the colour and icon opening over the page.
One logo everywhere, and it stands still.

1.2.0 Sep 23, 2026

The planner is called Ember. A flame for a mark, a warm accent, and a wordmark of its own.
Setup is a page of its own rather than a dialog, lit by one fire that burns through every step with a live picture of whatever you are answering beside it.

1.1.2 Sep 23, 2026

A task has one date. The second deadline that sat under it was taken out — people read the two as two deadlines and the wrong one was always the one being looked at.
Right-click menus on everything: a task anywhere on the page, a routine, a note, a category, a board lane, blocked-out time.
Guided tips, one short tour per screen, played the first time you open it.
A folding sidebar, and a list view you can group by date, lane, category, priority or a field of your own.
Each board lane scrolls its own cards, so every lane’s heading stays put.
US English throughout.

1.1.1 Sep 23, 2026

Drag down an empty stretch of the calendar to make something there, and a small card opens beside it for a task, a routine or unavailable time.
Time tracking is drawn as an orbit — in the top bar and in a floating window that stays above everything else, with its controls appearing only on hover.
The planner’s own colour picker, everywhere a colour can be anything.
The list view is a table you edit in place, with sortable headings and columns you can size and reorder.
The routine window became one short form instead of four tabs.

1.1.0 Sep 21, 2026

Backups go to a folder you chose, not Downloads — asked for at the end of setup, and repeatable on a schedule.
How tasks work is yours to set. Switch panel sections off, invent your own fields, choose whether subtasks are full tasks, and name your own lanes.
Blocked notifications say what to do about it, in plain steps.
Five categories to start with instead of ten, and planners on the old ten move across.
The foot of the sidebar says who you are, where the planner is kept, and opens Settings.

1.0.0 Sep 9, 2026

The first release. A dashboard, a calendar, a task board, an Eisenhower matrix, routines with streaks and notes — on Windows, macOS and Linux, plus a single HTML file that runs from a double-click.

Every version, and what changed in it.

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