Structured - Daily Planner

Though it might seem like just another routine update with bug fixes, there's more than meets the eye. Stay tuned on April 10 as we celebrate our birthday! 
Meanwhile, you can check out our app event for the Neurodiversity Awareness Month, where we are highlighting features that allow you to use Structured exactly how you need it.

Update Alert! This time, something that is very close to our hearts is your privacy. Furthermore, there are, of course, bug fixes and performance enhancements for a better user experience.

Here's what's new in Structured 3.4.1

** Privacy Center **

Take control of your personal information for easy customization and management. You can determine what information you want to share, manage your device permissions, and, most importantly, learn about our commitment to data protection.

** Loads of bug fixes and improvements **

We addressed minor bugs and enhanced the overall user experience for smoother planning. We also made small adjustments to the new Energy Monitor.

Hello, Structured users! As we move through February, we're pleased to announce the latest update to your planning tool. This release includes a special feature developed with expert input, as well as several other enhancements aimed at improving your experience with Structured.

What's New in Structured 3.4

1. Energy Monitor:

In partnership with the Dutch institute Breinstraat and with contributions from scientists and medical professionals, we're introducing the Energy Monitor. This new feature is designed to help individuals with brain injuries track and manage their energy levels throughout the day. Recognizing its potential utility for a wider audience, we've made the Energy Monitor available to all users as an experimental feature. It can be enabled in Advanced Settings, allowing you to assign energy levels to tasks and monitor your daily energy usage. We welcome your feedback on this feature.

To learn more about this feature, check out our blog post at structured.app/blog.

2. New Icons and Animations:

We've added a set of new icons and animations across the app to provide a refreshed look and add some playful touches here and there.

3. Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements:

This update includes fixes for known issues and improvements to app stability.

Compatibility Notice:

Starting with Structured 3.4, the app requires iOS 16, watchOS 9, and macOS 13 to ensure access to the latest features and optimal performance. If upgrading is not an option for you, the previous version of Structured remains available without further updates.

We hope you find the new features and improvements useful. Your feedback is important to us as we continue to develop Structured to better meet your needs.

Best,

The Structured Team

We hope the year has been kind to you so far! We're thrilled to share that at Structured, we've been sticking to our New Year's resolutions, and are proud to roll out a new update for you.

Here's what's new in Structured 3.3.2

1. Apple Vision Pro Support:

We love innovation! With the release of the Apple Vision Pro on February 2, Structured is coming in a modified iPad version to your physical workplace. Integrate your daily schedule straight into your environment and create your perfect working space on your new Vision Pro.

2. Improved and Faster Icon Search:

Our revamped icon search is here to read your mind (almost). Find the perfect icons faster, helping you express tasks visually and streamline your planning process.

3. Emoji Search:

We love emojis. Our new emoji search feature allows you to search for icons by using emojis. It's as simple as that.

4. Bug Fixes and Improvements:

Not revolutionary, but still important. We've worked hard to address bugs and make overall improvements to the user experience.

We are looking forward to receiving feedback and ideas for upcoming updates. Write to you next time.

First of all, happy holidays! Just in time for the festive season, we're back with a new update packed with new features and improvements for you to ensure a smooth start into the new year.

Here's what's new in Structured 3.3:

1. Enhance your planning experience with Shortcuts support
Get even more tasks done, create your own Shortcuts and automations, combine Structured with other supported apps, and bring your productivity to the next level. For beginners, we also have preset app shortcuts you can access via Siri and Spotlight Search.

2. Clearer Text and Improved Translations
We've reworked the in-app text and tuned the translations for a better experience for all users, no matter what language. For the best experience, we suggest using English, German, Spanish, or French.

4. More Efficient Backup Management
Set a limit for saved backups to prevent your iCloud from getting cluttered. Older backups are now automatically removed.

5. Home Screen Quick Actions
Additional quick actions can be accessed by long-pressing the app icon to access several actions even faster

6. Subscription Renewal Reminders
Receive timely reminders for subscription renewals or expirations, ensuring you're in the loop.

7. Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements
We are looking forward to receiving feedback and ideas for upcoming updates.

Also, keep your eyes out for a special surprise towards the end of the year!

All the best,

The Structured Team

First of all, happy holidays! Just in time for the festive season, we're back with a new update packed with new features and improvements for you to ensure a smooth start into the new year.

Here's what's new in Structured 3.3:

1. Enhance your planning experience with Shortcuts support
Get even more tasks done, create your own Shortcuts and automations, combine Structured with other supported apps, and bring your productivity to the next level. For beginners, we also have preset app shortcuts you can access via Siri and Spotlight Search.

2. Clearer Text and Improved Translations
We've reworked the in-app text and tuned the translations for a better experience for all users, no matter what language. For the best experience, we suggest using English, German, Spanish, or French.

4. More Efficient Backup Management
Set a limit for saved backups to prevent your iCloud from getting cluttered. Older backups are now automatically removed.

5. Home Screen Quick Actions
Additional quick actions can be accessed by long-pressing the app icon to access several actions even faster

6. Subscription Renewal Reminders
Receive timely reminders for subscription renewals or expirations, ensuring you're in the loop.

7. Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements
We are looking forward to receiving feedback and ideas for upcoming updates.

Also, keep your eyes out for a special surprise towards the end of the year!

All the best,

The Structured Team

After the big launch of iOS 17 (thanks for all the great feedback), we've been working hard to dig through issues that came up in the past few weeks.

This update addresses most of these issues. It fixes many bugs and crashes. Additionally, we've worked on improving the speed of updating widgets.

We hope these improvements make your work more productive and your breaks more enjoyable. 

If you continue to encounter any problems, please let us know!

The Structured Team

We are thrilled to announce another big Structured update! This time, we introduce support for some new features around widgets, which were just released with the new iOS. Besides that, we spent a lot of time optimizing things behind-the-scenes and have fixed over 100 bugs! Especially, the calendar and reminders integration are more reliable and smoother.

**Interactive Widgets**

With the latest iOS update, widgets can finally be interactive, and we are here on day one to support it. This means, you can check off your tasks without having to open the app, even from your lock screen.

Simply tap the checkmark (or circle) to toggle a task, and if there is no checkmark (because the widget is too small), try tapping the title of the task.

**StandBy Mode**

Another big addition to the recent iOS update is the new StandBy mode. Whenever you charge your phone is in landscape, a new, beautiful display of the current time will show up. You also have the option to add your own widgets and, of course, we recommend adding the Structured widget, which was optimized specifically for this.

StandBy is perfect for keeping an eye on your timeline, while at your desk, and interactive widgets work here too.

**Customizable Widgets**

Another significant change to widgets, is the ability to customize some aspects of it. You can now choose to display all-day tasks at the top of a Timeline widget, control if the Plus button is shown or set the order of tasks in the new Inbox widget (upsi spoiler).

**New Widgets**

With all these changes to widgets, they became so powerful, that we just had to add some more. Say hello to the new Inbox widget and a special Subtasks widget. The Subtasks widget also lets you complete subtasks directly from your home screen.

**Missing Lock Screen Widgets**

If you previously had Lock Screen widgets installed, you may have noticed that they have disappeared. Don't worry, they are still available and you simply have to re-add them once. We had to do this for technical reasons. Thanks for your understanding.

We hope you enjoy all these changes and look forward to your feedback.

All the best,

The Structured Team

We are thrilled to announce another big Structured update! This time, we introduce support for some new features around widgets, which were just released with the new iOS. Besides that, we spent a lot of time optimizing things behind-the-scenes and have fixed over 100 bugs! Especially, the calendar and reminders integration are more reliable and smoother.

**Interactive Widgets**

With the latest iOS update, widgets can finally be interactive, and we are here on day one to support it. This means, you can check off your tasks without having to open the app, even from your lock screen.

Simply tap the checkmark (or circle) to toggle a task, and if there is no checkmark (because the widget is too small), try tapping the title of the task.

**StandBy Mode**

Another big addition to the recent iOS update is the new StandBy mode. Whenever you charge your phone is in landscape, a new, beautiful display of the current time will show up. You also have the option to add your own widgets and, of course, we recommend adding the Structured widget, which was optimized specifically for this.

StandBy is perfect for keeping an eye on your timeline, while at your desk, and interactive widgets work here too.

**Customizable Widgets**

Another significant change to widgets, is the ability to customize some aspects of it. You can now choose to display all-day tasks at the top of a Timeline widget, control if the Plus button is shown or set the order of tasks in the new Inbox widget (upsi spoiler).

**New Widgets**

With all these changes to widgets, they became so powerful, that we just had to add some more. Say hello to the new Inbox widget and a special Subtasks widget. The Subtasks widget also lets you complete subtasks directly from your home screen.

**Missing Lock Screen Widgets**

If you previously had Lock Screen widgets installed, you may have noticed that they have disappeared. Don't worry, they are still available and you simply have to re-add them once. We had to do this for technical reasons. Thanks for your understanding.

We hope you enjoy all these changes and look forward to your feedback.

All the best,

The Structured Team

We are continuing to work hard on a bigger update behind the scenes. This tiny update brings some small fixes and some preparations for the future.

Excited for what is coming soon!

~ Leo

We are continuing to work hard on a bigger update behind the scenes. This tiny update brings some small fixes and some preparations for the future.

Excited for what is coming soon!

~ Leo

We have been a bit quiet, but I can assure you that there is something brewing in the background. Meanwhile, we have been squashing a few bugs and improving performance a bit.

On top of that, this update includes some new app icons you can choose from, including some inspired by other indie apps.

On Apple Watch, we've added a complication that you can place on the edges of your watch face to quickly see the progress of a task. These complications are only available on watchOS 9 and onwards. Unfortunately, we had to remove support for complications in earlier versions.

Unfortunately, we also had to remove support for undo/redo since it was causing more problems than it was solving. But we are planning to bring it back better soon!

~ Leo

We have been a bit quiet, but I can assure you that there is something brewing in the background. Meanwhile, we have been squashing a few bugs and improving performance a bit.

On top of that, this update includes some new app icons you can choose from, including some inspired by other indie apps.

On Apple Watch, we've added a complication that you can place on the edges of your watch face to quickly see the progress of a task. These complications are only available on watchOS 9 and onwards. Unfortunately, we had to remove support for complications in earlier versions.

Unfortunately, we also had to remove support for undo/redo since it was causing more problems than it was solving. But we are planning to bring it back better soon!

~ Leo

We're excited to announce Structured 3.1, which introduces a powerful new feature for our pro users: the Structured Assistant! This experimental feature uses AI to help you plan your day effortlessly using natural language.

** Structured Assistant **

The Structured Assistant is designed to make creating tasks even easier and more intuitive. Simply tell the assistant your plan for the day in everyday language, and it will use AI to generate a list of tasks for you. No more manual task creation or complex scheduling - let the Structured Assistant handle it for you!

To give it a try, tap the robot icon in the top bar and start speaking or typing your plans. Please note that this feature is currently only available to users subscribed to Structured Pro and can only understand English. We're working on expanding its capabilities and language support in future updates.

We hope you find the Structured Assistant helpful in making your daily planning even more efficient. As always, we appreciate your feedback and suggestions to help us improve the app further.

Thank you for using Structured, and have a productive day!

~ Leo and the Structured Team

Today, May 18, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! We want to celebrate this day with some updates to make Structured more accessible and inclusive for everyone.
Firstly, we improved the support for VoiceOver and VoiceControl, making the app easier to use for visually impaired people or those with limited mobility. Moreover, we’ve also added an alternate font option in the Appearance settings, which can help alleviate some symptoms of dyslexia. Choose the font that works best for you and enjoy a more personalized experience. 
If you have any feedback on how we can make Structured even more accessible for everyone, let use know.

~ Leo

Like before, Structured 3.0.8 contains many little fixes for issues and resolves one important bigger annoying bug, where imported reminder would constantly disappear when opening the app. Thanks to everyone, who reported this and helped resolve this issue!

~ Leo

Structured 3.0.7 fixes many little issues and one important bug, where restoring the backup would actually remove all tasks (sorry about that).

~ Leo

Structured 3.0.6 again "only" fixes bugs and crashes, but something cool is coming soon. Promise!

~ Leo

Structured 3.0.5 fixes a few minor bugs and crashes, but nothing big. There is more to come soon!

Anyway, thanks for using Structured, and have a productive day!

~ Leo

Structured 3.0.4 brings you a more seamless and enjoyable experience with a host of bug fixes and performance improvements. Our team has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to eliminate numerous small issues and refine the app's overall functionality. Here's a list of everything we've fixed or improved for you:

- Fixed an issue that prevented Apple Watch complications from displaying
- Resolved an issue that caused Home Screen Widgets to appear empty when tasks overlapped
- Enhanced calendar integration for better support of recurring events
- Fixed a problem where widgets would fail to appear on macOS 12
- Fixed an issue where the menu bar on macOS would be unresponsive
- Improved the touchability of certain buttons for ease of use
- Fixed a problem where tasks would still appear after resetting the app
- Added a close button to the day picker for added convenience
- Resolved several crashes for a smoother experience
- Removed "Lunar New Year" categories from the icon pickerm, while still making the icons available in other categories
- Improved the overall performance of the app for more efficient use

We're confident that these changes will make it easier for you to plan your day and enhance the app's overall quality. If you encounter any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We're continually working on larger updates to further improve the app.

Thank you for using Structured, and have a productive day!

~ Leo

Our new year's resolution at Structured is to focus on improving the overall quality and performance of the app.

We are starting by fixing a long-standing and annoying bug, where the buttons at the top would sometimes not work.

What are your new year's resolutions? Which ones did you already abandon?

~ Leo

Happy New Year! I hope you had a good start into 2023 and are ready to tackle all your goals.

While the new year has already begun for some of us, the new lunar year is about to start. To celebrate that, we’ve added a bunch of new icons, like a firework, a hong boa and of course icons for all the zodiac signs, including a cat for those who celebrate Tết.

For all of you, who celebrate it, I wish you a happy lunar new year and all the best for the year of the rabbit.

~ Leo and the Structured Team

TLDR;
- Look back at what you accomplished in 2022 with the “Structured Year In Review”, starting on Dec 30.
- Fixed a bug, where the app would freeze when selecting a task on macOS.


The year is coming to an end, and it's time to look back at what happened in 2022.

To celebrate your achievements in the past year, we’ve partnered with the talented Charlotte Vonhof, to create some wonderful artworks which show how much you have achieved in 2022. You’ll be able to view and share them from the 30th of December in Settings. We can’t wait to see yours!

At the same time, we also want to look forward and are excited about many fantastic things to come in 2023. We can’t wait!

Meanwhile, have some relaxing holidays and a happy new year.

~ Leo

TLDR;
- Drag & Drop! Easily move tasks around and rearrange your plan.
- Timezone Support! Set timezones for tasks to help with travelling and planning meetings.
- Stunning new app icon!
- 70 new icons (including winter icons) and better recommendations.

We are super excited to release a big update today! Structured 3.0 will dramatically improve your planning, adapt if things don't go as planned, and help you when travelling.

** Drag & Drop **

This has probably been the number one request feature, and it is super powerful.

You can simply press and hold a task until it pops out of the timeline, and then drag it wherever you like. A small preview will show you where the task will be once dropped.

But it doesn't stop there. Drag and drop is so deeply integrated into Structured, and it works (almost) everywhere. You can take a task from the inbox and drop it into your day, move something to the next day, by dropping it on the day at the top and even create a task at a specific time by dragging the "Plus" button there.

On top of all that, drag and drop also integrates with the system. You can drag stuff like emails or links into Structured, and it will automatically create a task for you. At the same time, you can also take a task and drag it out into other apps to create a link to it.

There is a lot to explore with drag and drop, so go head and move stuff around. Plans sometimes change, and that's ok.

** Timezones **

People that travel a lot or work with people from other parts of the world, know that timezones can sometimes be confusing. If you have a meeting with someone in New York at 1 PM their time, when do I need to show up in Berlin (it's 7 PM)?

With Structured 3.0 this is now much easier. When creating a task, you can assign it a timezone and set the time in that timezone. It will then appear at your local time in your plan, so you'll never miss a meeting again.

When travelling, you can also decide which tasks should stay at a fixed time (e.g. a meeting with someone back home) or which should adjust to your new location (e.g. lunch at 12). To get the later behavior, simply select "Floating time zone", but don't worry, it's also the default one for your tasks.

** New App Icon **

As soon as you update, you'll probably notice that the app icon on your home screen looks a bit different. Unfortunately, we had to adjust the icon, since it looked very similar to another company logo, but I'm happy we had to.

The talented Matthew Skills did an outstanding job at designing the new. He even designed a few variations which you can select in the settings and the amazing Donatus Wolf took it upon himself to create one in the style of one sec, which you can unlock by enabling the integration.

** Better Icon Recommendations & New Icons **

There is not only a new app icon, but also 70 new icons you can use for your tasks, including specific ones for the winter season (sorry Southern Hemisphere).

This bumps the number of icons to over 600, but luckily the automatic icon selection has also gotten much better, so you'll spend less time looking for the right one.

Thanks to everyone, who requested new icons, and make sure to keep them coming if you are missing the perfect icon for your task.

Additionally, where are also some smaller changes like a more compact visualization of overlapping tasks and bug fixes. Also make sure to check out our blog at [structured.app/blog](http://structured.app/blog) for a nice video showing the new features!

~ Leo

Do you ever feel like you are semi-automatically open Instagram while studying? This is actually awful for your focus and will hurt your concentration.

Frederik has been tackling this issue with his app "one sec", which forces you to take a deep breath before opening social media. This trains you to be a lot more intentional about open using them.

With Structured 2.6 and one sec 3.2 you can now connect one sec and Structured, which will fully block social media apps while you have incomplete tasks in Structured.

To enable the integration, just go into the in-app settings and select "one sec". Please note that the integration is only working on iOS & iPadOS.

This has been a fun project to work on with Frederik, who is a fellow indie dev, and we are excited to hear what you think!

~ Frederik and Leo