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    Themes, a Paper Look and a Friendlier Start

    Classic, Mono and a hand-drawn Paper theme with your own fonts, a new onboarding that sets Tasks up around you, @mentions in comments and repeats every few hours.

    Four iPhone screens: the Home board in the Paper theme with handwritten headings on a paper texture; Launch the new website open in Paper; the Work board in the Mono theme; and App theme with Classic, Mono and Paper, Paper selected, Fonts for Headings and Body, and Appearance set to System.

    5.3 is about making Tasks feel like yours from the first minute, so it brings themes, a new way to get started and a long list of small fixes.

    What’s new

    • Themes. Pick Classic, Mono or Paper in Settings, then choose your own fonts for headings and body text. Each theme works in light and dark. Mono, Paper and custom fonts come with Tasks Plus. Pick a theme.
    • Paper. Handwritten headings, a paper grain, checkboxes and buttons drawn by hand, and an ink tick when you finish something.
    • A new start. New users answer a few quick questions: what brings you to Tasks, what you want to keep on top of, who you work with and which app you’re coming from. Tasks sets up a project around the answers, then a short tour lets you type a date, a priority and a tag and move a card on a real board. It’s in every language Tasks speaks.
    Four iPhone screens of the new onboarding: the welcome screen with a Launch board of To Do, Doing and Done cards and a Continue button; What brings you to Tasks? with Studying, Work and teams, Freelance and clients, Personal and home, and Creating and side projects; Coming from Things 3, comparing what Things 3 and Tasks each have; and Try it out, step 1 of 5, with a Team board of To Do, In Progress and Done.Open full size in a new tab
    A few questions, a comparison with the app you used before, then a board to try things on.
    • @mentions in comments. Type @ in a comment to pick someone from the project. Work together.
    • Repeat every few minutes or hours. Type “every 2 hours” or pick it in Custom. When you finish a repeating task, Tasks tells you when it’s next due. Repeating tasks.
    Two iPhone screens: Create Task over the Home board with Stretch and refill water every 2 hours typed in and a suggestion reading Every 2 hours; and a comment on Launch the new website reading Can you check the domain, @ with Aisha Rahman, Daniel Brooks, Emily Parker and Ryan Mitchell listed to mention.Open full size in a new tab
    Type a repeat in plain words, or @ to bring someone into a comment.
    • Drop things onto tasks. Drag emails, images and PDFs straight onto a card on your board or into a task.
    • Take a photo and attach it to a task.
    • Voice input waits for you. In Accessibility settings, choose how long Tasks keeps listening through a pause, or have it listen until you tap.
    • Reminders that keep up. Tasks shares out the reminders iOS keeps scheduled, so repeating ones never run out.
    • Tag colours tuned for light and dark mode, with tag text that stays readable on both.
    • Clearer boards. A board with no columns says why, one with every column hidden can show them again, and a drop that can’t happen tells you why.
    • Apple Watch welcomes you with Sign in with Apple, shows your projects as they load and shows iCloud projects without signing in.
    • A smaller download. The iPhone app went from 41 to 32 MB.

    Fixes

    • Quick add on Apple Watch works again.
    • A moved task’s attachments keep loading after the original is deleted, and attachment names survive sync.
    • Pulling down a column in a filter such as Scheduled adds the task to the last project you opened.
    • Moved tasks keep their tags.
    • Task titles keep their line breaks on cards.
    • Task rows show at most three faces, with a count for the rest.
    • The time tracking Live Activity no longer clips.
    • Apple Reminders lists with an unnamed location alarm sync.
    • Syncing no longer brings the Mac app to the front.
    • Escape finishes editing first, then closes the screen.

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