The dock and the omnibar

Getting around TaskForge and adding things to it now goes through one place: a small floating bar at the bottom of the screen, and one field that either jumps you to something or creates it.

The + button is retired

This isn't a toggle anymore. The dock and the omnibar are how the app works, on every platform, for everyone. If you tried the beta, nothing changes for you. If you didn't, the old + button and the quick-add dialog behind it are gone; the dock does both jobs from one place now.

The dock

The + button is replaced by a pill-shaped dock docked to the bottom of the screen: one field reading "Jump or create…". Tap it to open the omnibar.

The omnibar: jump or create

Tap the dock's field (or press ⌘K on Mac) and a search box opens. Type anything, and two things happen at once:

Jump shows what already exists that matches what you typed: tasks, your custom lists, calendar events, settings screens, even something like "next tue" resolving to a date on the calendar. Tap a result to go straight to it. A task opens its peek card; a list opens its view; a setting opens its screen; a date switches you to the calendar on that day.

Create shows what you'd make if you kept going: one row, built from the same detection engine as the old quick-add dialog, with a small task/event toggle built into it. Type call the dentist tomorrow #health and you'll see chips for the date and the tag pop up live, before you've even hit anything. Type something with a time in it, like dentist appointment at 3pm, and the time still parses into a chip on the task, but the row stays in Task mode. Switching to Event is always manual: tap the toggle and it flips, no matter what you typed. Press Enter, or tap the row, to save whichever mode is showing.

Typing #, @, or + in the Create row pops up a strip of matching tags, contexts, or projects from your workspace right above the field, ranked by how often you use them. Arrow keys (or a tap) pick one; Enter or Tab drops it in at the cursor.

Below all of that, a Full search row is always there, even before you've typed a letter. Tap it and you get the same full search screen TaskForge has always had, filters and all, for anything the omnibar's quick jump doesn't cover. Open it from inside a list and it starts scoped to that list, with an "everywhere" toggle if you want to widen it back out to your whole workspace.

Which one shows up first depends on what you typed. Type something that matches an existing task closely and Jump leads; type something new, like "call the dentist," and Create leads instead, so you're not scanning past near-misses to get to the row that actually makes the thing.

Arrow keys move between the jump results and the create row; Enter activates whichever one is highlighted.

Search or filter, right from the composer

On iPhone and Android, a small two-way toggle sits at the end of the composer's input line whenever you open the omnibar from inside a list: Search and Filter this list. Search is the jump-or-create behavior described above. Switch to Filter this list and the results panel drops away entirely; every letter you type narrows the list you already had open, in place, the same way typing into a search box on that list always has. Whatever you'd already typed carries over the moment you switch, so you don't lose it. Switch back to Search, or close the omnibar, and the filter clears.

The toggle only shows up when there's an actual list open behind the omnibar (not, say, while you're looking at the calendar). On iPad and Mac, where the omnibar opens as a centered panel instead of a bottom composer, there's no toggle; Full search below covers that case there instead.

The save button moved too

The floating save button on task and event editors, the new-item screen, and the list editor has moved to the top bar, next to the other actions. Nothing about what saving does changed, just where you tap.

Platform differences

⌘K to open the omnibar is macOS-only for now; on iPhone, iPad, and Android, tap the dock's field. On wider screens (iPad, Mac) the omnibar opens as a centered panel instead of a bottom sheet, but works the same way.

A round of polish

A few refinements landed on top of the dock and omnibar above.

Recents, before you type anything. Open the omnibar with no query yet and you'll see a short "Recent" list: the last few tasks you peeked at and views you switched to. Tap one the same way you'd tap a jump result.

Bold matches in search results. When a jump result matches part of what you typed, that part is bold in the row's title, so you can tell at a glance why it matched.

No more avatar. The title bar and the gradient circle that used to open Settings are gone. That menu (Organize, Settings, Premium, your version number) now lives behind a small ⋯ glyph at the right edge of the dock itself.

A quieter calendar header. The date sits on the left, back/forward arrows and a Today button on the right, one compact row instead of stacked controls.

iPad and Mac use the rail only. On wider screens, the list of your views now lives in the left rail alone. The row of view tabs across the top is gone there, since the rail already does that job; quick filters moved into the list itself.

Empty lists feel like a finish line. Clear out a list and TaskForge just says you're caught up. It won't nudge you to add more work. A brand new, never-used list gets a softer first-run note instead.

Small motion, on purpose. Entering and leaving calendar mode cross-fades instead of cutting instantly, and you'll feel a light tap when it happens (respecting your device's reduce-motion setting if it's on).

The calendar moves into the dock

Your views row is your lists now, full stop: every tab across the top is a list you made, nothing else. The calendar lives in the dock instead, as a small calendar glyph to the left of the jump-or-create field.

Tap it and the calendar opens in place of your lists: your tasks and your real device/synced events together, with the same Day, Week, and Month picker the calendar has always had. Tap the glyph again (or tap any list tab) to go back to whatever you were looking at.

The calendar's own filter sheet still has a Lists tab, so you can narrow it to "just Work" the same way you could before. Leave nothing selected and it shows everything, across every list.

This replaces the old per-view Day/Week/Month layout toggle from earlier in this rollout: a list is always a list now, and the calendar is its own place you visit, not a mode any given list can switch into.