The Heym web app now speaks German, end-to-end.
We use du, not Sie, because Heym is an app you use every day, not a formal contract. Dates and numbers are formatted the way you'd write them by hand. And the switch is in Settings: one toggle, the whole app moves with you.
Bis bald.
Previously, if you completed a parent goal with unfinished sub-goals still under it, the sub-goals just sat there. Orphaned. Not a great pattern.
Now Heym asks. Close a parent goal with open sub-goals, and a dialog appears: complete the sub-goals along with the parent, or close just the parent and leave the sub-goals alone.
The repeat picker got a full redesign, because "every week" is more complicated than it sounds.
Frequencies are now pills: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Custom. One click to switch. When you pick Weekly, you get a weekday grid you can click directly: tap Tue and Thu to say "every Tuesday and Thursday." No dropdowns, no counters, no wrestling with rule-builders.
It's the difference between "every 1 week with BYDAY=TU,TH" and "pick the days you mean." We picked the second one.
Same treatment, different editor. The task editor's timing fields collapsed into three dials that match how people actually think about tasks:
The same three questions every calendar app asks, now finally asked once, consistently, across Heym. Setting a one-hour meeting next Tuesday is three clicks, not six.
The habit editor used to have three overlapping frequency controls (frequency, schedule, period) that didn't always mean what they looked like.
Now there's one clean schedule control that does the job. A real time picker (when the habit starts, how long it takes) replaces the old time-of-day dropdown. And a "type the number when you do it" mode for numeric habits (push-ups, glasses of water, pages read), so you can log "50" on a busy day and "0" on an honest one.
Open Heym and land on a home page built around the way you actually use the app.
At the top: an activity graph of your week, showing what you shipped day by day.
Below that: today's tasks, today's habits, and recent notes. The three things you're most likely to want when you walk in.
Down the side: quick actions (create a task, start a Pomodoro, capture a note), one click away.
And a settings menu to turn any widget on, off, or rearrange.
Every task can now have a time, not just a date.
"Call mum" → "Call mum at 6pm." "Dentist" → "Dentist at 10am." Open the task detail, turn on the time, and pick one.
Small change, huge in practice. Dates tell you what day. Times tell you when.
The Notes editor just grew up. A real editor now, not a text box.
/ command menu. Hit / and insert anything: a checklist, a heading, a divider, a file, an image. Keyboard-navigate the menu like you'd expect.
Checklists and task lists. Tick boxes inline, inside any note.
Drag-and-drop uploads. Drop an image or a file directly into the text and it embeds where you dropped it. Every file is stored privately behind a signed link, so only you can see it.
Per-line placeholders. Each new line shows a friendly "type something" hint that disappears the moment you do.
Not everything in your head is a task or a goal. Some of it is thinking, journaling, meeting notes, half-formed ideas. So Heym now has Notes.
A new section in the sidebar. A list of all your notes, with grouping by area, goal, or tag. Trash and restore, like everything else. And the same structure you already know: every note can belong to a life area or goal, or sit unaffiliated if that's what you want.
Two quality-of-life additions for the things you come back to the most.
Favourites. Star any goal, area, or tag, and it shows up one click away in the sidebar.
A dedicated Tags page. Every tag you've ever used across tasks, goals, and notes, all on one page. Click a tag to see everything tagged with it.
Heads up: what we used to call "labels" is now called "tags," everywhere.