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What's new in Cabana 1.4.0

Stamps for every day you finish, a passport to keep them in, Bits & bobs for everything that hasn't got a day, a way to find anything, and a calmer week on your phone.

This is a big one, and it's on the website, the iPhone app and the Android app.

Stamps, and a passport to keep them in

Tick off everything on a day and that day earns a stamp. Each one's a little picture, a palm tree, a croissant on a Saturday, a lobster if you're lucky, and it's waiting in your passport the next morning.

A finished Saturday in Cabana on an Android phone: every task on it ticked off and struck through, and its stamp, a croissant in a scalloped ring, printed over the corner of the day.

Your passport fills up a page at a time, eight stamps to a page, and a full page gets sealed. There are stamps for firsts too, like the first list you say out loud, and a couple for keeping going.

The passport in Cabana on an Android phone: page one full of round stamps, a plane, a tick, a star, a lobster, a clipboard, an ice cream, a shell and a disco ball, sealed with a star, inside an airmail edge.

On your phone the passport's the round button beside the +, and on the website it's beside the bell. Nothing ever comes off a page once it's there. How stamps work.

Bits & bobs

Not everything has a day. Bits & bobs is a board of notes for the rest: Christmas, the new flat, a hen weekend. Each note's a list like any day's, and a task can be in a note and on a day at the same time, so ticking it once ticks it everywhere.

Bits & bobs on an Android phone: four pinned notes, Christmas prep, House move, Gift ideas and Garden, each a short list with no day, some of it ticked off.

Find it with the little notepad beside the view letters at the top. When a note's done, mark it complete and it tucks itself away into the Archive.

Find anything

There's a magnifier now, beside the bell on the website and in the bar along the bottom on your phone. Type a word and it finds every task with it in, ticked off or not, in every plan you're in, even the ones from months ago. Tap one and you're there. On a computer, Ctrl K (or ⌘K on a Mac) opens it from anywhere.

Search on an Android phone: "mum" finds four tasks, two still to do and two ticked off weeks ago, one of them in a Bits & bobs note.

A calmer week on your phone

The phone apps have a new look: your week, your month and your year, on soft frosted cards over your stripes. The day's own view has gone, because the week shows a day in full anyway, and the month is every date with a little ring or a tick.

Cabana on an Android phone: the week of 19 to 25 October as seven frosted day bubbles, six of them ticked off, and Sunday's list underneath with four of its nine things done and the ring part filled.

And a few more

  • A guided start. Somebody new to Cabana gets a few steps to put their first tasks in, their way.
  • Still on your list. Anything left behind on a past day is gathered up in one place, so you can tick it off or move it on in one go.
  • A microphone on each day. Tap it beside a day's add and what you say lands on that day.
  • You can see it listening. On your phone, little bars move while the microphone hears you.
  • A calmer top bar on the website. On a laptop, Add task opens every way to add one, your plan's name opens everything about the plan, and the category chips fold into one button that says what's showing.

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The Cabana team