Next beta submitted to TestFlight.
What’s New
Quick Add improvements
- Quick Add now correctly places new items as children when a document has a single project with all items at the same level
- When a document’s structure is ambiguous, items are routed more reliably — either to an Inbox project or prepended to the top of the document, depending on your settings
New Quick Add settings
- Use Inbox — choose whether ambiguous quick-added items are placed in an Inbox project or added directly to the top of the document
- Tag new items — optionally tag every quick-added item with a custom tag (e.g. @inbox). The tag name can be customised; text is sanitised on entry to avoid breaking other clients.
Drag & drop
- Dragging an item now adopts the correct indentation based on where it’s dropped, rather than where it came from (first pass - I think the logic could be improved; let me know how it works for you)
- Fixed a bug where an item could be dropped onto one of its own children
Delete
- Deleting a parent item now correctly removes its children when the “Delete removes child items” setting is on
Layout & Accessibility at large type sizes
- The Quick Add item type picker no longer wraps to multiple lines at larger text sizes
- Other similar changes
Other
- Unable to recreate a problem submitted where on a small phone on iOS26.5 when using large dynamic text size the list of tags did not display correctly. Any more info on this much appreciated.
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thanks for adding the inbox approach, definitely very useful.
@flanker What do you think about the current task editing flow?
When editing a task with longer text, you need to tap the arrow on the right to expand the box and see everything. To me, that extra step feels unnecessary.
It would feel more natural if the edit box expanded automatically, since many tasks are longer than just a word or two.
Honestly, I’m not sure, other than I’m not 100% happy with it! I want to able to quickly add a note with the minimum of friction, ideally without pulling up a full editor. But as you say, it only works well with really short notes. I’m playing with a number of options:
- Go straight to the sheet editor rather than the pop-up. This is an option in the settings menu atm, but not enabled. I’m wondering about making it the norm. I’m using this now (and the It’ll be on the next public beta in a few days) but I find popping up a full editor rather than doing it at the relevant location discordant with an easy workflow. Hmmm….
- Go with a larger pop-over (or maybe wrapping/expanding popover?)
- when editing a task, look at the length of the text and choose the most appropriate UI (doesn’t help with new items)
Still undecided; all thoughts and ideas welcome 
[There will be a few other editor improvements / glitches fixed in the next release]
Maybe, “popup” could be reserved to non-editing actions like move, focus etc. Editing could be a different button like you mentioned.
Current version’s popup has quick “add” and “mark as complete” at the top, I think these two actions can be performed easily by tapping the circle for completion and tapping the “+” button at the bottom; so why not remove them completely from the popup menu? I’d like to have “add” and “move” action in the popup without an additional tap, so most precious action button will be readily available with fewer taps.
I think we’re using “popup” to mean different things. I meant the initial one-line editing overlay, and getting rid of that and going straight to the larger sheet-based editor.
In terms of the context menu…
The “quick add” isn;t the same as the toolbar plus button (I need to work on naming!) as it adds new items directly to the item it’s launched from, based on context, rather than the inbox-type approach of the plus button.
And the complete/incomplete isn’t really needed for tasks, but probably is for those who also wish to mark projects/notes as complete.
I’ve got analytics attached to all those menu items, and I’ll surface the ones that are most used to the first level. And as mentioned, I’m already looking at a couple of other ideas.
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