Changelog
Follow new updates and improvements to Structured.
October 16th, 2024
We are excited to introduce Cycle Seasons, designed to help you align your daily life with the natural phases of your menstrual cycle. By visualizing cycle phases as "seasons," you can plan tasks and activities according to your body's energy and mood fluctuations. Here’s how each phase aligns:
🌷 Follicular Phase (Spring): High energy and creativity. Plan ahead, start new projects, and engage socially.
☀️ Ovulatory Phase (Summer): Peak energy and confidence. Tackle challenging tasks, socialize, and take bold steps.
🍂 Luteal Phase (Autumn): Decreasing energy. Focus on completing tasks, maintain routines, and ensure adequate rest.
❄️ Period Phase (Winter): Low energy. Prioritize rest and minimize tasks to recharge.
By syncing with Apple Health, Cycle Seasons provides personalized insights directly in your Structured timeline. While each experience is unique, understanding your cycle can boost productivity and well-being.
Availability and Limitations
Cycle Seasons is currently available on Apple devices. Note that it doesn't account for pregnancy or menopause and shouldn't be used as contraception.
Embrace your cycle and make it work for you with Cycle Seasons!
June 19th, 2024
New
Introducing Structured 3.5 with the all-new Structured AI powered by GPT-4! This update brings faster, smarter planning capabilities, unlocking endless possibilities for organizing your day.
New Features:
Scanning Magic:
Seamlessly integrate physical calendars, planners, or to-do lists with a quick scan.
Automatically import timetables, shopping lists, and sports schedules into your Structured timeline.
Create shopping lists and tasks from scanned recipes.
Advanced Task Creation:
Schedule recurring tasks and manage unscheduled to-dos with ease.
Generate tasks considering existing events.
Edit and customize tasks before adding them to your timeline.
Planning Inspiration:
Plan trips, create training schedules, study guides, and household chores lists.
Get personalized itineraries, grocery lists, and training plans.
Examples:
Travel: Plan your New York itinerary, including sights and dining.
Cooking: Generate grocery lists and instructions for favourite recipes.
Training: Create marathon training schedules.
Studying: Build study schedules for exams.
Household: Create cleaning schedules by room and task.
Experience a new era of Structured planning with Structured 3.5!
May 24th, 2024
What is the Structured Cloud?
Structured Cloud is our new data storage solution. Previously, your tasks were linked to your Apple ID and stored in iCloud, limiting synchronization to Apple devices. Now, your data will be stored on the Structured Cloud and accessed via your new Structured account.
What do I get out of it?
By moving your data to the Structured Cloud, we will manage it instead of Apple. This allows us to directly address and hopefully eliminate storage and synchronization issues, greatly improving Apple Watch synchronization with other devices. Additionally, with your data linked to a Structured account instead of an Apple ID, you will eventually be able to sync tasks across different operating systems, including both Android and Apple devices.
What will change for me?
The main change is that you'll use a Structured account. By signing in with your email, you can access your tasks anytime, anywhere. Other than this, your user experience will remain the same, but synchronization will be faster and more reliable.
How do I get access to the Structured Cloud?
We will gradually roll out access to the Structured Cloud. When ready, a "Structured Cloud" button will appear in your settings. Clicking it and entering your email will transfer your data from iCloud to the Structured Cloud. For detailed instructions, visit our Help Center article.
February 20th, 2024
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
December 20th, 2023
Firstly, 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
September 16th, 2023
We are thrilled to announce another big Structured update! This time, we introduce support for some new features regarding widgets, which were just released with the new iOS 17. 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 iOS 17, 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 iOS 17 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 them. 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 (oopsi spoiler).
New Widgets
With all these changes to widgets, they became so powerful, that we just had to create 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. What is your favorite iOS 17 feature?
All the best,
The Structured Team
July 13th, 2023
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
May 30th, 2023
New
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
April 7th, 2023
New
Fixed
Structured is now available on Setapp, the Mac & iOS app subscription service. With Setapp, you can access hundreds of high-quality Mac & iOS apps for one flat monthly fee. You can sign up for Setapp here: https://setapp.com
Other than that, Structured 3.0.5 and 3.0.6 continues to fix a bunch of issues and improve performance.
Also, make sure to check out the new one sec update (version 3.0.4), which allows you to configure the one sec integration to only block apps during tasks with certain colors (plus it adds some more exciting features).
March 13th, 2023
Improved
Fixed
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 picker, 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