What's new

Pressing ⌘ K, or Ctrl K on Windows and Linux, used to list your whole account before you had typed a character. It now shows only what you can do: Create, and Go to with every main page under it. Start typing and Quick results appears above them, searching tasks, goals, projects, notes, habits, labels and life areas together in one list. Create task stays there whatever you type, so a search that finds nothing still offers Create task "renew the passport".

Select several tasks and ⌘ K opens on that selection. The menu leads with what you can do to all of them: set priority, change labels, set a date, set an alignment, mark complete, delete. Priority, date and alignment write every task at once and leave an Undo that puts each one back. Change labels stays open for several changes, ticking a label that is on all of the tasks and dashing one that is on only some.

Every place in Go to has a two-key shortcut printed beside it: G then I for Inbox, G then T for Today, G then R for Projects. They stand down while you are typing.

Press ? for the full list. It now covers writing too: everything you can press inside a note or a task description, and every markdown shortcut that converts as you type.

A list of tasks could only be narrowed one way at a time. The Tags page showed a single tag and the Completed page showed everything finished. Which work tasks are due this week and not labelled waiting had no answer short of reading the whole list.

Views are named, saved task lists. A view filters on labels, life areas, goals, priority and date, and keeps its own sorting and grouping beside those filters. Views sits in the sidebar below Upcoming; a view can be favourited, and its link opens it directly.

Each filter is one line: what you are filtering on, how, and what to match. The same thing can be filtered more than once, so one line can require a label while the next rules a different one out. Ruling things out is new. A label, area, goal or priority line reads is or is not, and is any of or is none of once you pick several values. Date lines compare before, after or on, against something moving like three days from now, or a date you pick.

Completion is a filter now rather than a display setting, so a view can hold finished tasks only. A task created inside a view is given the values that view filters for, so it doesn't vanish the moment you add it.

Labels moved here too, and Completed is now a built-in view. The Tags page and the Completed page no longer exist. Saved views are part of the paid plans.

Some work is bigger than a task and smaller than a goal. A website redesign or a house move has a deadline, a dozen moving parts and an order to them. That work had to sit as a goal with a flat list of tasks beneath it, or as a single task whose description slowly absorbed everything it depended on.

Projects are a layer between goals and tasks. A project holds its own tasks, carries a start date and a deadline, tracks progress as those tasks are completed, and aligns to one life area or goal. Projects sit under My Life in the sidebar, where they can be reordered, favourited and marked complete.

Each project's Tasks tab has a list layout and a board layout, and keeps whichever was used last. Tasks can be divided into named sections that act as list groups or as board columns. Dragging a card onto the Completed column checks the task off, and columns can be renamed, reordered and collapsed to a narrow strip.

The Overview tab holds a document for the project's context, in the same editor as notes, and a list of milestones: named checkpoints with an optional target date, kept separate from the task list.

An existing task can be moved into a project from its alignment picker, and a goal's detail page lists every project aligned to it. Unlimited projects are available on the paid plans.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.