The small screen earned its place

Last week I wrote that I was looking into what useful watch apps could look like across My Next — not how to mirror the phone apps on a smaller screen, but which moments are genuinely better on the wrist.

One week later, the first two answers are live.

My Next: List 1.3.0 and My Next: Note 1.3.0 now include Apple Watch apps. Todo is next and is already in internal testing.

List: the list you need without taking out your phone

List is the more obvious fit. A shopping list is useful precisely when both hands are occupied, and taking out a phone for every item has always felt like friction the list should remove.

On Apple Watch you can switch between lists, add an item, check it off, restore it from Done, sort the list, or swipe to delete. The phone's existing done and delete settings still apply, rather than the Watch inventing a second set of rules.

The Watch keeps the latest synced copy locally too. If the phone is not reachable, changes wait on the Watch and are sent when the connection returns. That does not turn it into a cloud-synced multi-device app; it just means a temporary connection gap does not make the list unusable.

You can download My Next: List from the App Store. The shorter release notes and setup guide are on What's New and the List page.

Note: reading and capturing, not editing everything

Note needed a narrower answer. Recreating a rich-text editor on a watch would make the interface smaller without making the experience better.

The Watch app is instead built around two moments. You can browse notebooks and read an existing note, including its headings, emphasis, lists, and checklist state. And when a thought appears at the wrong moment, you can capture a new note with Apple's system text input — usually dictation — without first finding the phone.

Captured notes go into a dedicated Apple Watch notebook and sync back to the phone. Existing notes are read-only on the Watch, checklist items cannot be ticked there yet, and attachments still send you to the iPhone. Those are deliberate boundaries for this first version, not hidden versions of a full editor.

You can download My Next: Note from the App Store. There is more detail in What's New and on the Note page.

Todo is next

My Next: Todo already has its Watch app in internal TestFlight testing. The current beta is 1.3.1 and includes the Watch app and complications, but it is not the public App Store version yet. I will give it its own proper description when the release is ready rather than turn a beta into a promise here.

The useful pattern across the three apps is becoming clearer. The Watch is good at a small action with immediate context: check the thing in your hand, capture the thought before it disappears, or see what is next without opening a larger interface. It is not where the whole app needs to live.

What's new in Build Studio

Build Studio has spent the week bringing more of the work into the dashboard and getting better at reporting what actually happened during a run.

A backlog item without a PRD now has a Draft button. It opens an interactive drafting session in the dashboard's terminal panel, uses the model configured for planning, and does not consume the project's workflow slot. A related fix means skill names containing underscores — including draft_prd — are now recognised and inlined correctly instead of failing silently. This is the first increment; reopening a draft still starts a fresh conversation.

The scorecard now measures the mean number of rounds a role needed to converge instead of displaying the highest round cap reached across all runs. It can also commit its own row when a workflow completes, so the record of findings, rounds, duration, model, tokens, and cost is not left behind as an uncommitted local file. The table scrolls properly and shows the model used for each row. An unpriced model no longer crashes the project page, and an unknown price remains unpriced instead of quietly becoming zero.

The execution side got stricter too. A run refuses to start when its pinned simulator no longer exists, a hung test suite is stopped and names the test it reached, and a gate that merely contains negative wording no longer turns a healthy N/A result into a false blocker.

The Build Studio changelog has the full detail and upgrade notes.

Elsewhere

DeskRhythm for Android now has opt-in cross-device sync through the user's private Google Drive app-data space. Each device keeps its own snapshot and the app merges them, while continuing to work normally when the user never signs in. A Swedish localization pass landed as well, including the less visible checks that stop an English literal or an outdated locale list from slipping through. This is implemented Android work, not a Play Store launch; distribution is still a separate gate.

Fazon's photo logging can now take a short text hint alongside a photo — useful for a regional dish that is visually ambiguous — and can offer a clearly marked nutrition estimate when the model identifies a dish that the food catalogue cannot map. Catalogue data remains preferred, nothing is auto-logged, and an estimate stays visibly different from a verified catalogue entry.

Fazon also reached its first real adaptive target recalibration. That exposed two useful defects: the confirmation did not state the new target clearly, and the recalculation could fall back to the standard intensity instead of preserving the phase the user had chosen. Both are fixed. The purchase recovery path was hardened in the same period so a verified payment can neither expire before recovery nor create the same phase twice after a failed save.

Välkomna, Sickla tunneln, Skrivhjälp, Life Graph, Finance Studio, Launch Studio and Studio Ops had no product changes to report this week.

What's next

Todo on Apple Watch is the immediate next release. After that, the interesting part is less about adding more controls and more about seeing which of these wrist-sized moments people actually use.

The same test applies to all three apps: if reaching for the Watch is not faster, calmer, or more natural than reaching for the phone, the feature probably does not belong there.