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What's new in Cabana 1.5.0

Give a task a time and get a tap about it, work towards a goal, see your calendar beside your plan, and cheer your people on.

Five new things this time, on the website, the iPhone app and the Android app. Where one only works on a phone, it says so.

A time, and a tap about it

Some things do need a time. Open a task's menu and choose Day and time to give it one. Timed tasks go first on their day, earliest first, and everything else stays in your own order underneath.

Day and time on an Android phone: November's dates, a time of 16:00 set with plus and minus buttons, and under Remind me a choice of At the time, 10 minutes before, An hour before and The morning of, with An hour before ticked.

On your phone you can ask for a tap about it too: at the time, 10 minutes before, an hour before or the morning of. A little bell beside the time shows one's set. Taps belong to the phone you set them on, so the website hasn't got them.

Goals

Pick something you do often, like a swim or a walk, give it a number and a date if you'd like one, and every tick moves it on. Your goals is in your plan's menu on the website and in More on your phone.

A new goal on an Android phone: 20 morning swims, counting Swim, by 31 December, with a Start it button.

While you're working on it, the goal sits above your week with a gentle line about how it's going, like how many a week gets you there. It never says you're behind. Reach it and there's a stamp in your passport.

Your calendar, beside your plan

Turn on Your calendar in More on your phone and pick up to three calendars. Their events sit faintly at the top of each day, so you can plan around what's already on, and Make it a task turns one into a task on that day.

Monday in Cabana on an Android phone: a goal card, Swim 30 times by Christmas, 8 of 30, above the day; three calendar events drawn faintly at the top, Gran's birthday all day, coffee at 10:00 and swimming at 17:30; then the tasks with times first, 7:00 Swim, 10:00 Swimming lesson, 11:30 Call with the Leeds team and 16:00 Dentist for the girls with a little bell; and Food shop, ticked off by Emma, wearing a party popper.

Only you see them, never anybody you share a plan with. Your phone sends us a copy, from a week back to six weeks ahead, so the website shows them too. It's kept encrypted, and Turn it off deletes it.

Cheers

In a plan you share, press the little mark beside something somebody else ticked off and pick one of eight cheers. They'll find it behind their bell, and their first one earns them a stamp. Changed your mind? Take it back, as long as they haven't looked at their bell yet.

Cheer Emma on, on an Android phone: eight cheers to pick from, glasses, clapping hands, a heart, a party popper, a sun, a star, a crab and a deckchair, with the party popper picked and Take it back under them.

Your first month

A month after you join, a card offers a look back at your first thirty days: how many things you ticked off, your busiest day, your longest run, your stamps and how your tasks came in. Save it as a picture if you'd like to keep it.

Your first month on an Android phone: a card saying My first month on Cabana, 2 October to 31 October, 57 things ticked off, 9 ticked off on Wednesday 28 October, 23 days in a row and 18 stamps, with Save as a picture.

And one more

  • A cross in Still on your list. Anything left behind that you don't need any more goes in one press, and Undo brings it back if you change your mind.

Times and taps, step by step

The Cabana team