What I've been building

The design lets a future app add sign-in by reusing the shared login, instead of building its own from scratch.

The add-task overlay got a pass to make its controls behave and look consistent.

• You can now move through the date picker’s months without the arrows shifting up and down, so flicking between months stays smooth.
• A button used as a toggle now fills in when you select it, so it clearly reads as chosen among the toggles beside it.
• The start-date choices, This, Next and Pick, now sit in equal columns that fit a narrow phone, so the chosen date no longer spills over.

The shared sign-in toolkit gained what an app needs to log people in when its login service sits on a separate domain.

• You can sign in on an app’s own address and the login survives the trip out to Google and back, so it doesn’t drop halfway.
• You stay signed in without logging in again, because the app can quietly renew your session in the background.
• You can sign out and the app clears your session on its own domain, so you’re fully logged out.

Text reminders and the weekly timeline got most of the attention.

• Proactive text reminders now stop for anyone who hasn’t opened the app or texted back for two weeks, so a dormant account stops getting nudged.
• Replying to a text reminder now gets a faster response.
• Fixed the timeline showing wrong times for scheduled tasks, new tasks missing from the timeline until you navigated away, and sign-out after account deletion.

The tooling that deploys the site was missing a program it relies on to run, and that program was added.

Most of the work went into the shared sign-in that every app runs on.

• You can now sign in to apps on their own domain, like the planner at remindmelater.net, so they share one login.
• Deleting your account now clears it from the shared sign-in too, so it stays gone instead of returning next time you sign in.

The planner’s sign-in was rebuilt to run through the shared account service that the other sites already use.

Anecdote is a planned app for turning texted work wins into polished stories for reviews and interviews, and its foundations are now in place.

• The full build plan was written, from how a win is captured by text through to how it becomes a review-ready story.
• The colours and fonts were chosen and locked, and you can view the options weighed along the way as live mockups.

The design system took on the shared UI parts and style checks that had lived inside individual apps.

• Buttons, form fields, list rows and day pickers now live in one shared place, so a new app reuses them instead of building its own.
• The spacing, colour and wording checks now sit in the design system too, so every project runs one shared copy instead of its own.
• The style checker now flags spacing that sits off the agreed scale and colour codes buried in icons, catching both before they reach a screen.
• Clicking into a text box now shows a bolder highlight again, where a recent change had thinned it to a faint edge.

This is the shared code that other workspace apps are built on top of.

• A new shared library gathers the common code apps need, so each one reuses a single tested copy instead of keeping its own.
• A new sign-in library lets any app confirm who is logged in and reach the sign-in service, so it doesn’t rebuild that itself.
• On the frontend it refreshes an expired session in the background, so someone stays logged in instead of being dropped mid-task.
• Sign-in checks also keep working when the service rotates its security keys, so requests don’t fail while the keys change over.

The timeline filter got the attention most people would notice.

• The timeline filter now stays below the header and keeps its search box when nothing matches, so a mistyped search is easy to clear.
• Fixed reminders firing a day off for New Zealand users, a failed task defer in Today’s plan, and stale tutorial state after a profile update.

You can now open the anecdote design explorer directly on the portfolio, where before it loaded through a third-party proxy with caching problems.

The sites are getting a single shared sign-in, built as its own service so each one no longer handles accounts by itself.

• You can sign in with your Google account, so there’s no separate password to create or remember for these sites.
• One sign-in works across the different sites, so you aren’t asked to log in again each time you move between them.
• You stay signed in as you keep using the sites, and a stolen session is caught and shut off on its own.

The planner got broad attention, from how tasks repeat to the timeline, Today screen and settings.

• The timeline now shows each recurring task and habit under the day it’s actually due, with the current week laid out day by day.
• You can now filter the timeline by typing, so days, weeks and months without a match drop out of view.
• Setting how often a task or habit repeats now uses a clearer picker, with new every-few-months and once-a-week options so more schedules fit.
• You can now pick when a repeating task or habit starts, choosing this week, next week or a specific date.
• Marking a task done, skipped or snoozed on Today now responds instantly as the row slides away, instead of waiting for a refresh.
• Skipping or snoozing now offers an undo, so an accidental tap is easy to reverse.
• You can now move a monthly repeating task to a specific day, where before you could only skip it.
• The task detail screen now lists every saved detail, including its schedule, how often it repeats, reminder time and snooze count.
• You can now edit your briefing time, reminder time, and weekly review day and time by tapping them in settings.
• You can now change your phone number or delete your account from the settings screen.
• Fixed a morning briefing that double-listed a habit due today, an error when skipping a monthly task, and monthly tasks showing on every week.