The third app reaches the wrist

Last Sunday's entry ended with Todo as the next Apple Watch release. Four days later, it is live.

My Next: Todo 1.3.1 now includes an Apple Watch app. That means all three My Next apps have reached the wrist, but each for a different reason.

Todo: the day, reduced to the wrist

Todo on Apple Watch is not the full planner compressed into a smaller rectangle. It is for seeing what needs attention now and doing the small thing that moves the day forward.

The main view separates Missed, Today, and the part of Upcoming that is useful at a glance. You can open a task, complete it, or skip it. Quick Add creates a Todo for Today, Tomorrow, or Someday, with an optional time and description, without first reaching for the phone.

The Watch keeps working through a temporary connection gap too. Changes wait locally and transfer after the paired devices reconnect, rather than making the app useless as soon as the phone is out of reach.

Complications can open Todo directly, or act as a My Next switcher between Todo, List, and Note. The next Wake Alarm appears as a summary on the Watch, while configuring and controlling the alarm still belongs on the iPhone. Version 1.3.1 also fixes the alarm text shown on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.

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

Three apps, three wrist-sized jobs

The useful distinction is clearer now that the set is complete. List is for checking the thing in your hand while your hands are occupied. Note is for reading something or catching a thought before it disappears. Todo is for deciding what is next and marking it done.

None of them tries to reproduce the entire iPhone app. That restraint is probably the most important part of the Watch work: if an action is not faster, calmer, or more natural on the wrist, it should stay on the larger screen.

What's new in Build Studio

The Draft button from the last journal has grown into a persistent working space rather than a one-off terminal command.

Build Studio now keeps one drafting conversation per project, can find a running session again after a reload, and restores the panel where it was. Hiding the panel sticks and leaves a small status line behind; closing it releases the active drafting slot while preserving the conversation for later. The result feels much closer to an actual place for shaping an idea before it enters the delivery workflow.

That work also exposed two terminal reliability problems. Agent terminals could leak pseudo-terminal descriptors during repeated reconnects, eventually exhausting the macOS pool. They now share one bounded connection per window. A synchronous tmux call could also freeze a project server indefinitely; those calls now have a five-second limit instead.

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

Elsewhere

DeskRhythm is getting close to its first App Store release. The English and Swedish listing copy, the ordered six-screenshot set, and both preview videos are now in App Store Connect. The app is not public yet, and the release lane deliberately stops before the final Submit for Review action. More on DeskRhythm in the next journal, when there is a release story rather than another preparation story.

Fazon's photo hint did not survive measurement. The model mostly repeated the text it was given, while the existing catalogue search already covered the useful part, so the field added last week has been removed. Typed or spoken meal entry is a different interaction and is now being treated as its own experiment. A DEBUG-only harness has also been built to compare a cloud nutrition-label reader with the scanner already in the app. Neither experiment is a production feature yet.

Fazon also fixed three smaller but visible problems: the meal banner no longer shrinks when the keyboard opens, logging a saved meal refreshes that banner immediately, and the final-stretch Power Walk card now shows the remaining work instead of accidentally treating the whole plan as complete.

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

What's next

With Todo released, the first Watch pass across My Next is complete. The next useful work is to see which of these deliberately small interactions people actually keep using.

DeskRhythm should have more to say next time. Its store material is in place; what remains is the part that turns preparation into a release. I will write about that once it is real.