Happy new year! I am kicking off 2026 with a massive update. This update introduces new features, quality of life changes, bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and security improvements.

New

• Focus Presets

  • 14 built-in presets to get started

  • Create and save an unlimited amount of Custom Presets

• New immersive focus sound player

  • 10 new focus sounds

  • Auto-Play Mode

• New Discord Rich Presence integration

  • Enable Discord Rich Presence setting

• TaskBookly now has native support for processors using ARM64 on Windows

• Focus timers now support 24-hour time formats

  • This is determined based on system settings, TaskBookly must be restarted to apply changes

• TaskBookly will now warn you when attempting to close the app while a focus session is active

• New Channel and Build Number information in Settings > About

• Warning information in Settings > Notifications

• New Popup Menu system

• New properties for dropdown menus

Changes

• Multiple windows can no longer be open at once

• Changed app icons on Windows and macOS to the new logo and in proper formats

• Changed TaskBookly icon in the sidebar to match the new logo

• Windows NSIS installer now has custom install/uninstall sidebar banners

• Buttons in groups have new styling to make them look more grouped together

• Disabed buttons on focus timer controls now have tooltips to convey why they're disabled

• Disabled buttons now give the not allowed cursor

• The focus timer will now slightly fade when the session is paused

• The Add Time button icon was changed

• The period completion notification sound has been changed

• Information about break charging is now in a information popup menu in the corner of its container

• Removed pointless Check for updates automatically setting, updates are now checked regardless

• Reverted icon position in container headers

• Removed "NEW!" labels from themes in the theme picker

• Reset all settings to default now prompts a popup modal and has new button and description text

• Merged Enable break charges setting into the break charging container and make transition periods its own container

• Changed the Focus notifications setting description in Settings > Notifications

• Removed the Notifications Only setting from the Focus notifications setting

• Removed Work period and break period duration settings in favor of the new focus presets feature, a temporary info modal is now in those settings' places

• Changed styling and text layout in the break charging container in the focus section

• Removed copy buttons from various data values in Settings > About that wouldn't really need them

• Various links in the macOS menu bar now direct to the website

• Renamed User Data to App Data in Settings > About

• Updated package dependencies

  • TaskBookly should now perform better on machines running macOS Tahoe

• Performance & security improvements

• Accessibility improvements

• Various other small changes

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where break charge progress could still be earned whilst break charging was disabled in settings

• Fixed an issue on Windows where the application would be displayed as "TaskBookly <version>" rather than just TaskBookly in System Settings > Installed Apps

• Fixed an issue where clicking the update available notification would bring you to the GitHub repository releases instead of the TaskBookly website

  • This will only apply when currently on TaskBookly versions 0.4.0+