Notes from the workshop.
What's new in Hobba, what got cut — and why. Written between two builds, one entry per milestone. Subscribe via RSS.
What a project knows
Versions 1.8 and 1.9: projects get a note and a deadline. Why the note on tiles is all or none, why the deadline isn’t passed down to tasks — and why “Never” for the Log is now called “Manually”.
Read more →Where you start
Version 1.7 is on the App Store: in the morning Hobba asks for your top 3 — a question, not a list. How “new since yesterday” works without a creation date, why “your three” got renamed just before release, and the history of repeating tasks.
Read more →A field from anywhere
Version 1.6 is on the App Store: ⌃Space opens an input field on the Mac from anywhere. One dead end, a week without a menu bar icon, a bug you only notice if you test in the evening — and subtasks by dragging.
Read more →Pick it up, put it down
Version 1.5 is on the App Store: a bar that only opens while you drag and nearly slipped to 1.6, six older bugs it turned up along the way, a line for the task that keeps moving — and Hobba in Japanese.
Read more →Fixed numbers
Every large widget cut off at the top — and the obvious theory was wrong. An experiment that disproves it, the real cause (fixed row counts instead of measuring) and a focus-timer bug that has been shipping unnoticed since 1.4.
Read more →The Inbox speaks up
Version 1.4 is on the App Store: the Inbox becomes visible in “Today”, the evening review includes it, the focus timer appears on the Lock Screen, double tap on the watch — and Hobba speaks French.
Read more →Two people, one list
Version 1.3 is on the App Store: share projects, read-only sharing, on-device dictation, suggested sorting, tags and context lists.
Read more →Making it easier to start
Version 1.2 is on the App Store — the biggest update so far: quick wins, “Too much for today?”, one at a time, the week grid in “Upcoming”, reminders at a place and as an alarm, Spotlight and Control Center, a Minimal style. And an automatism that could delete tasks is switched off.
Read on →Now with attachments
Version 1.1 is on the App Store: images, scans and files on tasks and projects, copy and paste with ⌘C and ⌘V, a sync dot that tells the truth — and two day-one bugs fixed. Plus: Hobba now talks to Claude.
Read on →The title reads along
“Buy milk tomorrow”, “Invoice by the 15th”, “every Tuesday” — Hobba reads the day, the time, the deadline and the pattern out of the title. Plus real deadlines, ten pasted lines as ten tasks, and the discovery that the Mac wasn't a Mac at all until build 51.
Read on →A trash can instead of swiping
Swipe-left-to-delete is gone from Hobba. Sounds like a small thing — behind it sits the biggest rework since the beta launch: a can that opens its lid, a row that turns into a glass marble, and a menu that listens for holding still.
Read on →The beta is open
Why another to-do app? Because none was quite the one I wanted: no subscription, no account, and a kanban board inside every project. That was when the open beta started; Hobba has been on the App Store since 30 August 2026.
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