Tasks is what to do now: it opens to Today. Insights (its own app) is everything the assistant found in your mail and texts. Planning lives one door away: the Plan button on the Tasks page opens Projects, every active project in one table with its progress, next step, last update and target, each broken into tasks, each with an Updates log you and the assistant both post to. (Projects, formerly Goals, was a third tab until 2026-08-03; planning is a different altitude from doing, so it is a door rather than a peer.)
Tasks: your day
Today merges tasks due today, anything overdue, repeating tasks, action items pulled from email, and today's calendar events. When everything is checked off it says so. "Done for today" is a reachable state.
The nav beside the list filters the same system along dimensions that combine: Dates (Today, Tomorrow, This Week, This Month, Later, which is beyond this month plus the undated backlog, and All time) and Groups (your project groups), including a "No project" row for tasks linked to nothing. A Tags section appears once any task carries a tag: "All tags" plus one row per tag; picking one shows every task with that tag across all time. Tags are set in the task editor's Tags row ("+ Add tag" searches your existing tags and creates new ones in place), and tasks imported from Apple Reminders arrive tagged with their Reminders list name. An Other filters section appears once any task came from your messages: From email shows every task Insights created from your mail, and From iMessages every one it created from your texts (when texts are a source), across all time. Pick one of each (say Today + Health) and the list narrows to tasks under that group's projects. Pills above the list always show the active filters; the × on a pill clears just that one. Every view ends with a collapsed "N done" section of completed tasks; click it to expand. One list surface, many slices, and no separate backlog app to maintain.
Row menu. The ⋯ on a task row (or right-clicking the row) offers Open, Set date, Rename, and Delete: quick changes without leaving the list.
No date, no time. A task does not need either. In the task's page, hover the Date, Start or End row and click the × beside the value to clear it; the row menu's "Set date → No date" does the same for the date. An undated task lives in the Later view's "No date" backlog until you give it a day. A repeating task always keeps its start date (that is what its occurrences are computed from), so its date cannot be cleared.
Quick add. Type into the "Add an action" box in plain language: "Call dentist tomorrow 3pm" becomes a task named "Call dentist", dated tomorrow, 3:00 PM. Dates, times, and repeat patterns ("Water plants every tuesday", "Pay rent monthly", "Review PRs weekdays 9am") are recognized as you type; chips under the box show what was understood before you press Enter. The assistant can also take a messier sentence and turn it into a proper task.
Overdue shows above today's list. "Push to today" on the section header moves all of them; hovering a single row shows "→ Today" for just that one.
Repeating tasks come back on their schedule: daily, weekdays, a weekly day, custom days, monthly, annually. Checking one off completes it for today; tomorrow it returns.
Complete vs. abandoned. A task page has two honest buttons: Mark complete (did it) and Mark abandoned (deliberately not doing it). Both resolve the task the same way everywhere: an abandoned task checks off in every list, leaves the calendar, stops its reminders, and the assistant treats it as done rather than pending (it can also mark a task abandoned for you). Repeating tasks show a History of past occurrences. There are also reminders before the due time, a per-task work timer, and search.
Edits save themselves. Changes on a task's page save automatically as you type. There is no Save button on an existing task (only a brand-new task asks you to save once). "Back to list", Esc, or clicking any nav item returns to the list you came from.
Weekly review. The "Weekly review" link beside the Today pill runs a short guided review: what got done, what's stuck, what matters next week. It nudges at most once a week.
Insights: what your mail and texts said
Every insight found in mail lands here, grouped by kind. And, when Settings → Accounts → iMessage → Insights from your texts is on, the same folders hold what your texts said (each conversation is read once it goes quiet, appears with an "iMessage" tag and an iMessage entry under Accounts, and opens to the conversation itself with an "Open in Messages" door). Grouped by kind: a flight confirmation, a renewal date, a statement closing, a package arriving, a bill due Friday. Anything that needs doing also becomes a task on the Tasks tab, with a badge back to the email, and the insight here links forward to that task. The two answer different questions: Tasks is what you have to do, this is what your mail said. (Before 2026-08-03 an insight left this page the moment it became a task, which made it a page of leftovers; it was called "FYI" then, and Email AI until September 2026.)
The sidebar groups them by what happened, one word each: Bills (money you owe), Receipts (money already paid), Renewals (things you have that renew or expire), Appointments, Reservations (trips and bookings you hold), Deliveries, Deadlines (something due back or due in, like library books), Security, and Other. Each folder states what belongs in it under its title, and a folder only appears when it has something in it. Marketing is not an insight: an offer to subscribe, upgrade or buy never lands here, however much it talks about renewals or discounts.
Items stay for 90 days whether or not they have been read, so a hotel booked in June is still there the morning of the trip. Unread rows carry a dot, and the envelope button in the header narrows the page to them (the same control the Inbox has); older items stay findable through Email search and ⌘K. The left column says when the thing happens ("in 3 days"); rows whose mail carries no date of its own show, in italics, when it arrived instead.
Clicking a row opens it in the reading pane on the right (on a laptop-sized display the pane starts hidden and the row opens full width; the panel button in the header brings the pane back): the summary, the facts pulled out of the mail (a flight's route and times, a booking code, an amount), and the buttons to turn it into a task, mute the sender, or say it was not useful. "Open email" goes to the message itself. Drag the divider to set how wide the list is. Whole categories can be switched off in Settings, under Email.
Trips. Reservations that belong together (the flight out, the hotel, the rental car, the return leg) are grouped into a trip by their dates; nothing to set up. A coming trip appears as its own card on Home, and the Trips entry in the sidebar opens the index: trips coming up soonest first, past trips below. Opening a trip shows every reservation in it in one place, including bookings made months ahead whose email has long since left the 90-day window.
Projects: the plan
Reached from the Plan button on the Tasks page; the back button in its header returns you there.
A project is something you can finish, with what "done" looks like, a target date, a Group label, and linked tasks. A project is either completed or it isn't; progress lives in its tasks (the n/m count on every project). The page opens on every active project in one table: progress, the next open step, when it was last updated, and the target date (red once it has passed, amber within a week). A Needs attention list above it names what wants you (a target passed or due this week, a project with no open next step, one that has gone quiet for two weeks), and completed projects fold beneath. The pills under the title filter the table by group; each group keeps its own colour on chips and progress bars. Open a project for its sheet: Mark complete in the head (it asks what to do with any open tasks), its tasks, its Updates, then the details and a folded More (weekly review, decisions, notes and bookmarks, delete).
Plan a project by talking. The "Help me plan a new project" button opens the assistant, which asks one question at a time (the outcome, the finish line, the date), then proposes 3-6 first steps as tasks with dates for you to approve. Stopping mid-conversation leaves a draft project; its "Finish planning it" button picks the interview back up. Projects can also be created and edited entirely by hand; every field saves as you change it.
Groups are just labels. There is nothing to create or maintain. A group exists because a project carries its name. Edit the Group field on a project (it suggests existing names). To rename a group, pick it in the filter row and click its title (or Rename); to dissolve one, Remove group on that page, and its projects stay, ungrouped. Three or four groups is plenty. Feeling stuck is a conversation, not a label: the "I'm stuck" button hands the project to the assistant.
Updates: the log. Every project and every task carries an Updates section: post what happened ("sent the deck, waiting on Dana"), and the assistant posts there too: its read when you ask "How is this going?" or press Ask nenva to check in, a risk it noticed, and every weekly review. Each entry says who posted it and when; the page shows how long it has been since the last one. Updates are history for you and the assistant to read back, not instructions. A standing instruction is a Decision.
Weekly AI reviews. "Review it weekly" (under More on a project) schedules a routine that reads the project's linked tasks and updates each week and posts a short honest read to the Home feed and to the project's Updates: moving, stalled, or done in all but name. On any project, Suggest tasks asks the assistant to propose next steps; nothing is added until confirmed.
A worked example
One person's projects, end to end:
- Work (group)
- Project: "Ship v1 by end of Q2" with tasks "Fix login crash", "Draft release notes Friday", "Review PRs weekdays 9am" (repeating)
- Health (group)
- Project: "Run a 10K on October 18" with tasks "Sign up for the 10K this week", "Run every mon wed sat 7am" (repeating)
- Home (group)
- Project: "Keep the house running" with repeating upkeep: "Water plants every tuesday", "Pay rent monthly"
Each quoted task above is literally what you'd type into quick-add; the dates, times, and repeats are parsed from the words. Note the shape: a few groups, one or two live projects in each, and repeating tasks carrying the routines. Projects change weekly, actions hourly. If the list is bigger than that, it's doing overwhelm's job for it.