Quiet releases.

Helg Community, and Helg on iPhone

Helg Community is a public library of step-by-step tasks written by people who have already done them — renewing a passport abroad, registering a newborn, changing your address after a move. Add one to Helg and it asks the few details that depend on you, then lands in your Inbox as a checklist. Suggest an edit when something has changed.

• The iPhone app is in beta, with a home-screen widget.
• Pick the hour date reminders arrive, and set quiet hours when nothing buzzes.
• Choose who in the household hears that something on the buy list is running low.

The web app, rebuilt

The signed-in app has been rebuilt around a handful of screens: Today, This week, Lists (Inbox, Later, Archive), Buy list, Family, Notifications and You. The weekly review — “triage” in the older notes below — is now called the pass.

• A capture is the name you type, plus an optional detail. Nothing is shortened or summarized for you.
• ⌘K opens search — tasks, steps, the buy list, people — from anywhere in the app. C opens capture.

Web app + softer everything

helg now runs in the browser — three columns, a budget bar, drag. Useful when you’re on a borrowed laptop or a hospital workstation.

• Web app at helg.app — full triage workspace, no install.
• Card chrome relaxed: white surfaces, soft shadows, no hairline borders.
• Staleness ramp re-tuned for lower chroma — drifts quieter.

Start-by dates, shared inbox

For tasks with a long runway, helg now carries both a due date and a start by date on the card, so the one that actually governs is visible. The shared inbox lets the people in your household push tasks to you — with scoped visibility.

• “start by” dates on cards inherit urgency styling at ≤30 days.
• Senders see only what they sent — never the rest of your queue.
• The family inbox is its own tab.

Amnesty prompt + budget bar

We added an opt-in Review affordance to tasks that have been put off four times without being done. The budget bar is now visible at the top of the triage view at all times.

• Amnesty modal: three equal-weight options, no guilt language.
• The hours budget defaults to 11; tunable in settings.
• Over-budget state turns the bar terracotta — never red.
• Punted-counter pills replaced the dot trail.

Private alpha

First closed group. Capture, triage, color-coded staleness ramp. Built for a few residents and a few traders.