1.0.beta36 - 2023-12-12

As you may have noticed, MonoFocus hasn't been in active development for a while. We're still figuring out the future of MonoFocus, but wanted to fix some broken integrations in the meantime.

Improved

• Preferences: Renamed "Import projects" button to be less confusing.

Fixed

• Todoist: Resolved issues with connecting Todoist account.
• Trello: Resolved issues with connecting Trello account.
• Things: Integration would stop working for Things 3.17.4 or newer.
• Tasks list: Context menu of some tasks could contain duplicated items for completing the task.

1.0.beta35 - 2021-05-27

Added

• Pop-up reminder: Added new "Fade and slide" animation.

Fixed

• Tasks list: App could crash after active task was completed in the synced project directly.
• Tasks list: App could crash after the change of project filters or other change of project content.
• Trello: Fixed problems with boards having multiple columns with the same name.
• Jira: Switching the "Show only tasks from active sprints" filter would not update the project.

1.0.beta34 - 2021-05-17

Added

• Introducing linking tasks: Link tasks from your synced projects. Gather tasks from different projects and complete the task in all projects at once.
• M1 support: MonoFocus now fully supports Apple M1 chip.

Improved

• Preferences: Window keeps the same width when switching between panes.

Fixed

• Tasks list: Newly added or moved task could not be set as active until all projects have been reloaded.
• MonoFocus now makes sure to delete no longer visible tasks, which could have cause the app to slow down or to show outdated tasks after reconnecting integration with another integration account.

1.0.beta33 - 2021-02-24

Fixed

• Quick Entry: App would crash after setting added task as active.
• Preferences: Importing projects would cause projects list sidebar to display invalid list with sometime duplicated projects.
• Preferences: Placeholder of project name field would sometimes show the wrong project name.
• Preferences: Fixed project editor layout.
• Preferences: Edited project could be different than the one selected from the sidebar list.

1.0.beta32 - 2021-02-12

Fixed

• Pop-up reminder: "Always show pop-up window" option would cause window to start blinking indefinitely.
• Tasks list: Active task in "Focus on:" section would sometimes have the wrong checkbox color.
• Tasks list: Completed tasks would reappear after using search bar.
• Tasks list: Fixed a possible crash.

1.0.beta31 - 2021-02-12

Improved

• Tasks list: Redesigned "Focus on:" section. No more jumping list when (de)selecting task to focus on!
• Pop-up reminder: You can now customize which screen to use in multi-monitor setup — following your cursor is the new default.
• Preferences: Increased the default number of visible top-level tasks in your projects from 5 to 10.
• Introduction: Improved introduction for new users (you can always open it using "Help" > "Open introduction" menu).

Fixed

• Jira Cloud: Would show only first 50 tasks in a project even after clicking "Show more tasks...".
• Preferences: Slider would get clipped in some projects preferences.

1.0.beta30 - 2021-02-05

Fixed

• Trello: no sorting option would be available in Trello projects preferences.
• Preferences: Enabling/disabling "Show only tasks assigned to me" filter would not update the displayed tasks in some projects until restarting MonoFocus.

1.0.beta29 - 2020-12-17

Fixed

• Tasks list: Completed tasks would reappear after reordering/renaming/adding new task.
• Tasks list: Adding a new task with long name would cause checkbox to be misaligned.
• Tasks list: After changing project "Sort by:" option, tasks list wouldn't update immediately.
• Local Projects: Tasks wouldn't be sorted by the selected "Sort by:" option.
• Todoist: "Request explicitly cancelled" alert would show up unexpectedly.

1.0.beta28 - 2020-12-16

Added

• Introducing Local Projects: You can use MonoFocus as a standalone app, without any third-party apps.

Improved

• Tasks list: You can archive/remove tasks by right-clicking on a task of project with support for these actions.
• Preferences: Added confirmation alert after clicking remove project button.

Fixed

• Tasks list: Completed tasks would still be visible after reopening tasks list.

1.0.beta27 - 2020-12-07

Fixed

• Things: Integration would stop working for Things 3.13.1 or newer.

1.0.beta26 - 2020-12-01

Added

• Added option for the always visible pop-up window.
• Search your tasks using new search field. You can find it above tasks list.

Improved

• Preferences: More intuitive pop-up window preferences pane.

Fixed

• Preferences: Checkbox for making project (in)active wasn't working.

Improved

• Compatibility with macOS 11 Big Sur:
  • Added new icons for Preferences panes.

1.0.beta25 - 2020-09-29

Added

• Preferences: You can now customize number of top-level tasks visible in your project.
• Things: MonoFocus can now check off items from your checklists, by directly updating Things database, but this will cause unexpected behavior in Things (including showing task as not completed until you restart Things).

Improved

• Quick Entry: Now you can search partial words and the word order doesn't matter.
• Quick Entry: Open your active task in its original (web) app.
• Preferences: Manage your projects in a separate Projects tab with more easily accessible projects preferences.
• Preferences: Open the window with Cmd+, shortcut.
• Preferences: Added confirm alert when deleting projects using Delete key.
• Preferences: Other smaller improvements in General tab.

Fixed

• Quick Entry: Matched tasks were not highlighted properly.
• Tasks list would sometimes show projects as empty, e.g. after importing new project.
• Tasks list had no scroll bar visible.

1.0.beta24 - 2020-09-07

Improved

• Quick Entry: You can now choose to add a new task and immediately set it as active, by holding Option key or changing the default behavior in Preferences.
• Tasks list has been simplified by removing confusing ⌘+1, ⌘+2 etc. shortcuts.

Fixed

• Columns/Lists from your projects would erroneously have checkbox next to them.
• Tasks list would not be clickable in the bottom 40 pixels or so.
• Improved handling of scenario when a task whose project preferences has missing Destination List.

1.0.beta23 - 2020-08-31

Added

• Tasks list now show not only tasks titles, but also due dates, priority, and labels. You can customize which one you want to see by pressing a new button in a bottom toolbar of MonoFocus window.
• OmniFocus: You can now add tasks to OmniFocus using Quick Entry.

Improved

• You can now undo completing your task when clicking on the task checkbox, by clicking on it again.
• Pop-up reminder: You can set custom pop-up visibility time in Preferences.

Fixed

• MonoFocus window would stay visible after switching focus to another application's window.
• Dock icon would not hide after closing Preferences window.
• App would crash after opening context menu of a task whose project preferences has missing Destination List.

1.0.beta22 - 2020-08-18

Added

We're listening to your feedback and we've restored some of the missing functions from the previous interface:

• You no longer have to open popover and expand the settings menu to open QuickEntry popup since the button been moved to the bottom of the app window.
• You can now see details about the active task at the top of the window, without having to scroll the tasks list.
• Complete tasks directly from Quick Entry popup and use keyboard shortcuts to manage tasks even faster.
• App window is now translucent and blends with the background.

Improved

• Long active task titles are shortened to fit in the menu bar much faster than before.

Fixed

• Closing and opening the window again will collapse nested tasks extended with "Show more tasks..." button.
• Things: Integration would stop working for Things 3.12.6 or newer.
• GitHub: Completing multiple tasks from a checklist would update only some of the tasks.

1.0.beta21 - 2020-07-28

This version requires macOS Catalina (10.15). Don't update the app if you have an older version of macOS.

Added

• You can open your project in its original app/website by right-clicking on the project name.

Fixed

• Nested tasks would remain hidden even after clicking "Show more tasks..." button.
• App crashes related to tasks list and completing tasks.

1.0.beta20 - 2020-07-21

Added

• Brand new UI: Menu with tasks has been replaced with a full-fledged UI.
• Jira Cloud: You can now use MonoFocus with your Jira projects!
• Preferences: You can now customize how often to refresh your projects.

Improved

• QuickEntry: Improved search of existing tasks, so you can find your tasks even with a typo.
• Preferences: Project settings sheet shows only the available settings for given project.
• Analytics: You can opt-out from anonymous analytics if you want.

Fixed

• QuickEntry: Window would sometimes pop up in random part of the screen instead of the center.
• GitHub: Fixed sorting tasks for issues projects.
• Things: Fixed importing Area projects.
• Wunderlist: Removed the integration, since Wunderlist has been shut down.
• Preferences: Importing previously removed project would restore its old preferences and filters.

1.0.beta19 - 2020-04-13 Update Fix

Resolved the error when updating the app

• If you've got An error occurred while extracting the archive error before, try updating now.

1.0.beta19 - 2020-04-09

Added

• QuickSelect: You can now quickly select an existing task to focus on using the global shortcut!
• After the (hopefully unlikely) event of an app crash you can send us details of the issue using built-in alert.

Improved

• Preferences: You can now set more granular time between "no active task" reminders using slider.

Fixed

• OmniFocus: Selecting a folder with projects inside would crash an app.
• Todoist: Tasks from Today project had missing subtasks.
• Todoist: Some originally nested task would not be visible in Today project.
• Nudge would still show up after deselecting active task.
• Notification to set a task would still show up when you already had one running.
• Preferences: Time selectors of notifications were missing AM/PM indicators.
• Preferences: Projects with long titles would overlap with checkbox when importing projects.
• Preferences: Email button would not open email client.
• Crash when migrating from 1.0.beta12 to the latest version of MonoFocus.
• Interface bug when switching between light/dark system appearance during onboarding.

1.0.beta18 - 2020-03-27

Added

• Introduction window: The new interactive introduction will help you setup the app.
• Reminders.app: Now you can quickly add your tasks to Reminders projects using Quick Entry window.

Improved

• You can now import/remove multiple projects at once.
• Quick Entry: Close window with the same hotkey you used to open it.
• Quick Entry: Add info when there are no projects shown explaining why.

Fixed

• Reminders.app: Completing tasks not working for some users.
• GitLab: Application crashed when importing GitLab projects.
• OmniFocus: Clarify we only support Pro version of the app.

1.0.beta17 - 2020-03-02

Improved

• Things: Completely rewritten the integration to increase performance and minimize CPU usage.

1.0.beta16 - 2020-02-03

Fixed

• Things/OmniFocus: Fixed the integration bug introduced in 1.0.beta15. If your Things/OmniFocus projects has stopped working since the last update, this is why.

1.0.beta15 - 2020-01-27

Added

• Reminder pop-up: Want something more eye-catching than a menu bar title? Now MonoFocus can remind you of the current task with a friendly pop-up. Every time you switch between apps, or just every thirty minutes. All customizable.
• Improved Quick Add: Selecting project with a hashtag was replaced with a separate input step where you type and select project. There's also an icon next to the project name, so you can tell apart e.g. two "Inbox" projects from two different apps.
• Offline support: Now you can always focus on your task, even when you launch the app without internet connection.
• Todoist integration: We've completely rewritten the integration, bringing support for Todoist Sections and opening tasks in Todoist desktop app instead of todoist.com when possible.
• GitHub integration: Added support for user-owned and organization-wide project boards.
• Marking tasks as done is now done much faster than before.

Fixed

• GitHub integration: Completing issue checklists from project board was not working.
• Preferences: Some available integrations could be greyed out with its Connect/Disconnect button.
• Preferences: Fixed an issue with window staying hidden after connecting integration from a browser, when user had multiple Spaces/Desktops.
• Preferences: Added truncating for long project names in Imported Projects.

1.0.beta14 - 2019-10-31

Fixed

• wip.chat: Integration could show an error when importing multiple projects
• wip.chat: Integration could stop working when token has expired
• Todoist: Projects could not load once in a while, now we retry reloading projects after an error
• Things3: Importing projects could get stuck in an infinite loop

1.0.beta13 - 2019-10-24

Added

• WorkingOn is now called MonoFocus! (we also have a new website: monofocus.app)
• Faster transition between tabs in Preferences window

1.0.beta12 - 2019-10-10

Added

• Introducing GitLab: Now you can use your GitLab to-dos as tasks! (with issues and merge requests coming soon)

Fixed

• Updated Todoist integration to support the new API

1.0.beta11 - 2019-09-10

Added

• You can finally deselect active task from menu.
• Restored integration with OmniFocus.

Fixed

• Dock icon behavior when launching the app for the first time.
• Todoist: Tasks order for Today project.

1.0.beta10 - 2019-06-27

Added

• Introducing Slack: Now you can import your starred messages from channels and conversations.

Fixed

• wip.chat: Added support for more than 100 tasks.

1.0.beta9 - 2019-06-20

Fixed

• GitHub: Importing projects now works with organization repositories.

1.0.beta8 - 2019-06-19

Fixed

• Reduced number of requests made when importing projects.
• Rewritten "Mark as Done" button title which had misleading title in some cases.
• "Choose task below:" button is no longer showing up when Pull Request is an active task.

1.0.beta7 - 2019-05-27

Fixed

• Preferences window could resize improperly when rapidly switching tabs.

1.0.beta6 - 2019-05-27

Fixed

• Todoist: Hide formatted links from tasks.
• More descriptive error alerts.
• Handling scenario when you removed the imported project from the original to-do app.

1.0.beta5 - 2019-04-25

Added

• Quick Add: Add a new task using a custom shortcut.
• Filters: Show only the tasks assigned to you and/or containing a specified label.
• Sorting: Order tasks by newest, oldest, due date, name or priority.
• Go to Task: Open your active task in its original (web) app by clicking "Go to Task" button.
• Notifications: Get reminded when you forget to set an active task for a while.
• Daily Summary: Receive notification with productivity stats at the end of your workday.
• New integration with Reminders.app.
• New app icon
• Improved UI of Imported Projects list.
• Handle empty state when you haven't imported any projects yet.
• Add '...' at the end of shortened task title.
• wip.chat: Connect your account without having to manually copy your API key.

Fixed

• Things 3: Integration is now working on macOS Mojave.
• Things 3: Projects belonging to an area are now prefixed properly.
• GitHub: First task of Board project is no more duplicated in "Show more" menu.
• Improved mechanism of shortening task title in menu bar.
• When trying to open multiple Preferences windows, the first one is being shown instead of opening another one.

1.0.beta4 - 2018-11-16

Fixed

• App could crash when using "Name + Project Name" task format.

1.0.beta3 - 2018-11-13

Fixed

• Active task could blink when refreshing data in the background.

1.0.beta2 - 2018-11-02

Fixed

• App could crash when using GitHub Projects.

1.0.beta1 - 2018-10-29

Added

• Support for importing all your projects from Trello, Todoist, GitHub, Wunderlist, Things, and wip.chat.
• Preferences window for customizing your workflows.