What's new

Keep up with the latest feature releases and improvements.


June 20, 2026

New activity chart

We introduced a new activity chart widget for your home view. The activity chart plots every task you complete across the last 52 weeks as a heatmap, with busier days running darker. Open the home view to see the whole year in one grid.

June 18, 2026

Heym for Mac

Working in a browser tab means Heym competes with everything else you have open, and a reload can drop you back to the start. Heym is now a native Mac app in its own window, with the menu bar and dock presence you'd expect from a desktop app.

It brings tabs to Heym: open a goal in one, your week in another, and today's tasks in a third, each with its own back-and-forward history. Reorder them, switch between them, and keep a few corners of Heym open side by side. The app signs in with the same account and syncs the same data as the web, so you can move between Mac and browser without losing your place. Download it for macOS at heym.app.

June 11, 2026

Smaller improvements

A set of smaller changes across notes, tasks, and lists.

  • Quick-add suggestions. Start typing a task and Heym suggests the goals and areas it might belong to.
  • Image controls in notes. Hover an image in a note for a toolbar, or click to open it full-size.
  • Inherited colours. Habits and notes can take the colour of the area or goal they belong to.
  • Reordering in grouped lists. Notes grouped by area and tasks grouped by goal are now drag-and-drop; reordering by hand switches that list to manual sort.
  • Task time ranges. A task at 6pm for an hour shows as 6:00–7:00pm.
May 28, 2026

Keyboard navigation

Reaching for the mouse to do something fifty times a day adds up. Heym now drives from the keyboard.

Press ⌘K to open the command palette: search across everything and jump straight to any task, goal, area, or page. In a list, move with the arrow keys (or J and K), press X to pick rows and Shift with the arrows to extend a range, then act on the whole selection at once — complete, move, tag, or delete. Press ? at any time to see every shortcut Heym knows.

May 14, 2026

Calendar

Seeing your tasks as a list tells you what's due, not when your day actually fills up. Heym now has a calendar, built from the tasks and habits you already track.

Anything with a start time and a length shows up as a block sized to its duration. Click an empty slot on the time grid to create a task right there, drag a block to move it, and overlapping items sit side by side instead of hiding each other. Multi-day events run across the columns. Open the calendar from the Upcoming view by switching from list to calendar, then choose a 4-day, week, or month view.

April 30, 2026

Life area covers

Life areas were text labels with no way to tell them apart at a glance. You can now give any area a cover image. A new gallery view lays the areas out as a grid of covers; click any one to open it.

April 18, 2026

Habit targets

A habit used to be a plain check-off: done or not, with no room for how much. A habit can now track a measurable target. Pick a typed unit (Count, Calories, Distance, Time, Water, Steps, Pages, Chapters, or a custom one), set a target value, and choose the period it resets over: day, week, month, or year. Turn on "Enter value" to log the exact amount each time instead of counting up by one.

April 16, 2026

New language: German

The Heym web app is now fully available in German. You can switch language in the settings area.

April 11, 2026

File and image attachments

Some thoughts come with a file attached: a screenshot to mark up, a PDF to reference, a doc to keep close. You can now attach images and files wherever you write in Heym. Drag one straight into a note, or add it from the / menu. Every upload is stored privately behind a signed link, so only you can open it.

April 2, 2026

Closing a goal with open sub-goals

Closing a goal that still has open sub-goals used to leave them orphaned underneath it. Now Heym asks: complete the sub-goals along with the parent, or close just the parent and leave them open.