Changelog

What's new in Exsut. Updates install automatically, so you're always on the latest.

v0.5.1

8 July 2026

The consistency fix. Every task form, every editor and every module now behaves the same way everywhere, and every piece of feedback from the 0.5.0 wave is in this build.

Note: where to keep your data
  • Keep your data folder on a normal local disk, like your Documents folder. Everything saves there automatically as you work. There is no manual save or sync step.
  • Never point Exsut's data folder at a cloud synced location such as Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud or pCloud. The sync client can corrupt the database while the app is open, and that can lose your data.
  • To back up, or to move to another computer: close Exsut first, then copy the whole data folder, database and attachments together, into your cloud drive or backup disk.
  • Exsut now warns you if you pick a folder that looks like a cloud drive, and the folder screens in onboarding and Settings explain this best practice.
New
  • One task form everywhere. Adding a task now offers the same full set of fields wherever you are: title, date, priority, repeat, all day or a start and end time, a reminder, notes and tags. That covers the planner sidebar, the day calendar, the day popup, Work, Personal and the Brain.
  • One task editor everywhere. Editing a task in Personal, Work or the planner sidebar opens the same editor with every field, including things you could not change before anywhere: the end time, the reminder and the status. Unassigned Work tasks can now be edited too, and moved into a project.
  • Subtasks grew up. A subtask is now a full task: give it a date, a time, a priority, notes and tags. A dated subtask appears on your planner like any other task. Your existing subtasks carried over automatically.
  • Repeating tasks show as one row. In Work and Personal a repeating task no longer floods the list with every occurrence. You see the next one with a Repeats badge, and deleting it asks whether to remove the whole series.
  • Waiting joined the Work status cycle. Click a task's checkbox through To Do, In Progress, Waiting and Done, and the kanban board gets a Waiting column.
  • A starting amount in Finance. Tell Exsut what you have right now and the forecast grows it alongside your monthly investing. Update it whenever you like in Finance settings.
  • Set a start date for repeating habits. An "every 3 days" habit can now be anchored to the day you last did it, so the schedule lines up from day one.
  • A sound for task reminders. A short chime plays when a reminder fires, in case your system notification sound is off. Turn it off or test it in Settings.
  • The journal saves as you type. Autosave is on by default with a toggle in the editor header if you prefer saving by hand.
  • Remove a module from Settings. Manage modules now has a remove button with a confirmation. Your data stays in the database; only the sidebar entry goes.
  • Collapse attachment folders. Folders with subfolders get an arrow to fold the whole branch away.
Improved
  • The same markdown editor in the journal, notes and the Brain: bold, italic and list buttons, a Write and Preview toggle, and the left to right or right to left switch, now in all three places including Brain notes.
  • Tasks created in the Brain are first class. The quick add row expands into the full task form, so a Brain task can have a time, a priority, a repeat and tags like everywhere else.
  • Tasks that cross midnight now span to the end of the day, and the next morning shows a "from yesterday" strip so the late block does not vanish at midnight.
  • The planner week view is easier to read: bigger day numbers and task chips that wrap onto two lines instead of being cut off.
  • Files on tasks everywhere. The attachments panel now appears on task rows in Work and Personal, not just in the planner.
  • Selected buttons, toggles and highlights are now clearly visible in light mode, and scrollbars are wider and easier to grab.
  • Every primary button in the app now shares one style. Some modules had drifted to a second look.
  • Personal goal cards show their target date and days remaining.
  • The Learning add form labels its fields, so the lesson count no longer shows as an unexplained number.
  • Adding a deadline from the Work projects tab now offers the same form as the deadlines tab, including marking it as a milestone that shows on the planner.
  • The folder screens in onboarding and Settings recommend the safe local setup, and picking a cloud folder shows a clear warning. pCloud is now recognised too.
Fixed
  • Deleted repeating tasks stay deleted. Removing an occurrence or a series no longer comes back the next time the app opens or a new repeating task is created.
  • A repeating task in a Work project no longer shows up split between the project and Unassigned.
  • Searching for a task to link in the Brain returns results again.
  • The Area on a repeating Personal task now saves and carries to every occurrence.
  • Typing a task title then picking a module no longer wipes the title, in the sidebar and in the day popup.
  • Deleting a task also removes its subtasks from the planner.
  • Exporting your data now includes everything. The Finance budget, allocation and forecast setup, recipes, PDF highlights, attachment folders and reading settings were missing from exports before this build.
  • The Brain keeps a note's writing direction when you undo a deleted node.
  • The sidebar Sync button is now clearly the mail and calendar refresh, so it cannot be mistaken for a data save button. Your data always saves itself.

v0.5.0

6 July 2026

A big feedback release: flexible habit schedules, file folders, task times and reminders, a Waiting status, whole life search, markdown and right to left writing, keyboard shortcuts and a system tray.

New
  • Keep Exsut in the system tray. Turn on tray mode in Settings and closing the window keeps it running in the tray instead of quitting. Click the tray icon to bring it back. If you use encryption, you can have it lock the moment it hides to the tray, or whenever you minimize, so it asks for your passphrase again when you return.
  • Jump between modules with the keyboard. Alt and a number switches straight to a module, and you can change every shortcut in Settings.
  • Track habits on your own schedule, not just daily. Repeat on chosen weekdays, every few days, on a day of the month, or something like the first Friday of every month. Streaks and the day dots follow the schedule.
  • Organise your files into folders. The attachment library now has a folder tree you can nest, and you can move files in one at a time or in bulk.
  • Write your journal in markdown. A Write and Preview toggle plus quick bold, italic and list buttons, with your text rendered in preview.
  • Write right to left. The journal and notes each have a switch for Hebrew, Arabic and other right to left languages.
  • Give a task a start and end time, not just a start. Set a range like 13:00 to 14:00 in the planner, Work or Exercise and it shows as a block that covers those hours on your day.
  • Get a reminder for a task. Choose to be reminded at the time or up to an hour before, in the planner, Work or Exercise, and Exsut nudges you while it is open.
  • Mark a task as Waiting. When something is out of your hands, like a form you sent off, flag it Waiting so it stays in view without looking overdue.
  • Add a task straight onto your day. In the Day schedule, click any half hour slot to add a task at that time.
  • Manage repeating tasks. See which tasks repeat, change how often from the task itself, or delete the whole series in one go, not just a single occurrence.
  • Mark an expense as monthly or yearly in Finance. Yearly costs like an annual subscription are shared out across the months for you.
  • Search now looks inside your whole life, not just tasks. Find finance lines, notes, journal entries, reading items and attachments by name, and jump straight to them.
  • Pick your currency in Finance. Choose from pounds, dollars, euros, yen, shekels and many more, and every amount updates to match.
  • Print a week, a month or a year from the planner, not just a single day. Each view has its own Print button.
  • Turn spelling check off. A new switch in Settings hides the red underlines in the journal and notes while you write.
Improved
  • The Brain side panel can be widened. Drag its edge to make room so nothing, like the add task button, is ever hidden.
  • Tasks you add without choosing a module now live in Personal, so they show up where you would look for them instead of only in the planner.
Fixed
  • PDF highlights now save the exact text you selected, not a shifted version of it, and you can export all your highlights and notes to a file.
  • Click the note marker on a file to read its note. The marker did nothing before.
  • Selecting text in a PDF is smooth again, with a normal text cursor instead of a hand.
  • Printouts keep their colours now, like the habit heatmap and task tags, and the year prints across the page so it all fits.
  • Printing a planner day no longer cuts off the last two digits of the year.

v0.4.3

27 June 2026

Plan your day by the hour, log workouts with sets and reps, print what you need, and save bookmarks. Plus a fix for repeating tasks.

New
  • Give a task a time of day. When you add a task in the planner, Work, Personal, or plan an exercise session, you can leave it as all day or set a time, so it has a real place in your schedule.
  • See your day as an hourly schedule. In the planner’s Day view, switch to Schedule to lay your timed tasks and events out across the full day, hour by hour, with anything left as all day grouped at the top.
  • Record the exercises in a workout, not just its length. When you log a session you can add each exercise with its sets, reps and weight, and they stay visible under that session whenever you open the day.
  • Forgot to tick a habit yesterday? Click any day in a habit’s row of dots to mark it done or undone after the fact. Works for both done and count habits.
  • Print from Exercise, Meals and Reading. Take your workout for the day, your shopping list, or your reading list onto paper, laid out clean for the page.
  • Save bookmarks in Reading. Add a link with its web address as a new Bookmark type, alongside books, articles, papers and audiobooks, and open it in your browser with one click.
Fixed
  • A repeating task now shows up straight away, on the right day, even when it starts today. Weekly and monthly repeats in Personal could fail to appear at all before.
  • Adding an email account is more forgiving. You can paste a Gmail app password with its spaces and it still works, editing a field after saving no longer tests the old details, and a failed test now explains that a new app password can take a few minutes to start working.

v0.4.2

21 June 2026

Brain: build visual maps of your thinking that hold notes, files and tasks, all linked to what you already track.

New
  • Brain. A new Brain view in the Core modules group, for building second brain mindmaps. Start from a central node and branch ideas outward on a canvas. Keep as many separate maps as you like.
  • Build maps fast. Add a branch with Tab or the plus button, rename by double clicking, drag nodes anywhere, and collapse a branch to tidy up. Add more than one central node to hold several trees on one canvas. Press Tidy to arrange everything automatically, and draw a dotted link between any two nodes to connect ideas across branches.
  • Notes, colour and size on every node. Write notes into a node, give it a border and fill colour from the presets or a custom colour wheel, and set its size, so a map can hold the real thinking, not just labels.
  • Pin your files to ideas. Open the Files panel to see your whole attachment library, filter it by tag, then drag a file onto a node to attach it or onto empty canvas to add it as its own node. Open images and PDFs right there.
  • Tasks on a map. Create a task from a node or link one you already have. It shows up in your planner and its module, and completing it anywhere updates it everywhere. From the planner, the day view, or the calendar, click the Brain icon on a task to jump straight to where it lives on your map.
Improved
  • Your tasks stay in step everywhere. A task lives in one place, so completing, rescheduling, or editing it in the planner, in Brain, or in any module updates it everywhere at once, with no refresh or restart. This covers every module, including exercise sessions and milestones, so the planner always shows the true state of your work.
  • Rearrange your module groups. Drag a group heading in the sidebar to move a whole group of modules up or down at once.
Fixed
  • The update window now shows release notes with proper headings, lists, and spacing.
  • The planner no longer showed a task as still open after you completed it in another module.
  • Opening a module that no longer exists now returns you to the planner instead of a blank screen.

v0.4.1

18 June 2026

Bring your files into Exsut: attach them anywhere, keep them in one place, and highlight your PDFs.

New
  • File attachments. Attach files to your tasks, notes, journal entries, reading list, and work projects. Files are copied into your data folder, so they travel with your backups and stay even if you move or delete the original. View images and PDFs inside Exsut or open any file in your default app, and tag files so the paperclip shows how many are attached.
  • Encrypt individual files. Click the lock on any file to encrypt it with AES-256, tied to your passphrase. Encrypted files are unreadable on disk and open only inside Exsut. Click again to unencrypt.
  • Attachments view. A new Attachments view in the Core modules group gathers every file you have attached, anywhere. Filter by tag, search, sort, and open files in a tabbed reader with an optional side by side view. Rename, note, encrypt, or delete with undo, select several to tag or delete in bulk, and add files with a button or by dragging them in from your computer.
  • Highlight PDFs. Select text and pick a colour. Highlights are saved, never change the file (so they work on encrypted PDFs too), and the Highlights list lets you jump to any passage, add a note, or clear them.
Improved
  • Backups now include your attached files, not just their references.
  • Detaching a file fully removes it, with a brief window to undo.
Fixed
  • Choosing where your data lives now works. Pick any folder to hold your database and attachments, during setup or any time from Settings. It stays on your machine by default; if you like, you can put it in a synced folder (Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive) to back it up or use Exsut across devices. Changing the folder moves your data there for you.

v0.4.0

17 June 2026

You can now encrypt your whole database behind a passphrase only you hold.

New
  • Database encryption, off by default. Lock your entire data file with a passphrase. AES-256, your passphrase never leaves your device and we can never see or recover it. Exsut asks for it each time you open the app, or a trusted device can remember it, and a Lock now button locks the app instantly. If you forget your passphrase, your data cannot be recovered.
  • Task tags: tag any task and filter by tag across every module. Add tags as you create a task (in the Planner, Work, Personal, and the Academic, Learning and Travel forms) or inline from the Planner. The tag filter narrows both your task list and the calendar.
  • Drag to reschedule: drag a task onto another day in the month or week calendar.
  • Collapsible sidebar groups: organise your modules into named, collapsible sections.
Privacy
  • Fonts are bundled with the app instead of loaded from Google, so Exsut makes no request to Google when it starts.
Fixed
  • Tokens for connected email accounts now persist across restarts.

v0.3.10

14 June 2026
New
  • Feedback button in the sidebar footer. Send a bug report, idea, or note without leaving the app. Only your message, the app version, and your OS are sent, never your data.

v0.3.9

14 June 2026
Fixed
  • Buy and upgrade links now open correctly in your browser.

v0.3.8

14 June 2026
Improved
  • Automatic updates now work end to end. The app checks for new versions on launch, downloads them, verifies the signature, and installs, so you get future updates without downloading the app again.

v0.3.5

14 June 2026

First wave of improvements from beta feedback.

New
  • Display size control to scale the whole app up or down.
  • Clearer count tracking in Habits, with a dedicated row and examples.
  • Manual ordering in Reading, with up and down arrows.
  • Appearance is now its own settings tab.
Fixed
  • Recurring task templates no longer show up as overdue tasks.

v0.3.4

12 June 2026

Security hardening and onboarding polish.

Improved
  • Exsut sanitises notes before display and enforces a strict content security policy.
  • Exsut stores tokens for connected email accounts in your operating system’s secure keychain instead of the database.
  • Guided tour fixes, first use tips on every module, and more readable dialogs.