Roadmap
Ember is one person’s project, so this is an order of intent rather than a schedule. Nothing below carries a date, and things move backwards as often as forwards. If something you need is missing, ask for it here — it appears on this board, and anyone who wants the same thing can say so.
Windows shows a “protected your PC” box and macOS needs a Terminal command before it will open, because the builds are not code signed. Certificates fix both, and it is the single biggest thing standing between Ember and someone trying it.
Calendar sync and Drive backup are written and working, but the downloads ship without the Google application key they need, so both are off. Supplying one to the release build switches them on for everybody.
Moving one occurrence of a routine works inside Ember, but the sync writes the whole series’ time, so Google never hears about it. Recurrence exceptions are the proper fix.
The checks cover conventions and colour contrast thoroughly and the actual logic hardly at all — which is where the bugs have been. Dates, recurrence and filtering need real coverage.
There is no server, so there is no sync. Backing up to a file and restoring works, but it is not the same thing. The honest options are syncing through a folder you already own, or Drive doing the job properly once sign-in is on.
The page folds down to a narrow screen, but folding is not designing, and without sync there would be nothing on the phone to look at. This waits behind the one above it.
Routines repeat; tasks have one date. A quarterly invoice is neither a habit nor a one-off, and right now it has to be typed again every time.
The sync writes into your primary calendar. Anyone keeping work in a second calendar wants to pick, and anyone sharing one definitely does.
Starting from an empty planner is a real cost when your tasks are already in Todoist, Notion or a spreadsheet. An importer for a CSV would cover most of it.
No print stylesheet and no way out to CSV. Some people want the week on paper on a Monday morning, and some want their own data in a spreadsheet.
A short list of today's work in a panel beside the board, weighed against the hours the day actually has left, with the timer on the first of them.
A row for each routine, a column for each day, one set of arrows — so a day reads down as easily as a routine reads across.
The day as a rail beside the week, gaps left as gaps and the long ones labelled, filling to the current minute.
Name first, everything else on one quiet line. A lane shows eleven cards where it showed six.
Six colours shown as colours, three kinds of bullet, and a toolbar grouped by what its buttons do.
A scrolled lane no longer slides up when you change a card's category, a long list can be scrolled to its own foot, and both redraw many times faster on a big planner.
Past eight categories the menu gets a box to type in, rather than a list you scroll to the bottom of every time.
PDFs, images, plain text and spreadsheets show inside Ember instead of being handed to whatever your computer would open them with.
One board per workspace, stacked and collapsible, rather than the board being switched off there. Lanes are never merged by name.
On a day of the month, which is what a bill is. A month with no 31st uses its last day rather than skipping.
All five sections take the colour you picked, told apart by weight rather than by hue.
Up to six separate planners in one window, each with its own categories, lanes, tasks, routines and notes — plus a view across all of them.
Three columns that each scroll on their own, so a packed schedule can no longer push what is overdue off the bottom of the page.
Pick up a task, a routine or a blocked-out hour and drop it where it belongs. A routine asks which occurrences you meant.
Each night of the week keeps its own window, so weekends can start later than Tuesdays.
The whole history counts, not the last year — with a log that draws your year as twelve calendars, and days you can let off.
A new name, a flame for a mark, and a warm accent the whole planner is built around. Setup became a page of its own, lit by one fire.
Not Downloads. Pick a folder once, by hand or weekly, and Ember says whether the write actually landed.
The roadmap reads better once you know what is already there.
It goes straight onto the board, where anyone who wants the same thing can add their name to it. No account, no sign-up.