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Tap the plus button or the quick-add row in Today, All Tasks, or any category. On iPhone you can also use the “Add New Task” card. Quick entry stays open after you save, so you can add several tasks in a row.

Yes. Type or dictate something like “call the dentist next Tuesday at 3” and PathDay fills in the date, time, and other details for you. A built-in parser does this on every device. On devices with Apple Intelligence, PathDay also uses Apple’s on-device model to catch what the parser misses. Either way it happens on your device, and you can change anything it filled in before you save.

Tap a task to open the editor. Swipe a task to Flag or Delete it. Deleting a recurring task asks whether to remove just that occurrence or the whole series.

Tap its completion button in the list, or mark it complete in the task editor.

Set None, Low, Medium, High, or Critical (color-coded) in the task editor.

Yes. In All Tasks, tap Select, choose multiple tasks, then set Date, Category, or Priority for all of them and tap Apply.

It is where anything you capture waits until you decide about it. The Inbox is not a category you file into, it is a state a task is in: an item is in the Inbox from the moment you capture it until you give it a day.

On iPhone, tap the floating plus in the tab bar while you are on the Inbox and the editor opens with the Inbox already chosen. On iPad and Mac the Inbox column also has its own Add New Task row. Either way the item lands with no date and no category.

By getting a day. Giving an item a date, in any editor or from Process Inbox, is the decision that takes it out. Giving it a category does not move it, because a category says what a thing is about, which is not an answer to when.

A deliberate pass that empties the Inbox. Your whole queue is listed on one screen under a progress strip. Tick one row or several, then tap Schedule, Snooze, Update, or More. Undo reverses a whole batch.

Snooze hides an item until a wake day, a week or a month out, and then it returns to the queue on its own. Someday hides it indefinitely and it never comes back by itself. Both sit in collapsed sections under the Inbox, and Review Someday is a separate pass for the second one.

Its date and its due date are both cleared, because an Inbox item is something you have not decided when to do, and a deadline is a decision about when. The app warns you first and names what it is about to clear, and Undo restores it.

Categories are how you organize tasks by area of your life. Each category has a name, icon, and color, and a task is filed into exactly one of them or none at all. You can create as many as you want. Categories were called Lists in earlier versions.

The category is removed and its tasks are kept. Tasks that have a date simply become unfiled. Tasks with no date move to your Inbox, so they are not left both unfiled and undated, and the confirmation tells you how many will move before you commit.

Type a #hashtag directly in a task’s name or a Journal entry and it is automatically added as a tag. A tag ends at punctuation, so “#diet.” becomes the tag “diet”. You can filter by tag from the bars in Today, All Tasks, category screens, Search, and Reports. Manage tags under Settings, User Preferences, New Task Defaults.

Set a task date, plus an optional due date and due time, in the task editor. A due date must fall after the task date.

Up to two reminders per task, using presets or a Custom date and time.

Use the recurrence builder to repeat Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly, with intervals and weekday or day-of-month patterns. You can edit a single occurrence or the whole series. A task cannot have both a due date and a recurrence. Manage all series from the Recurring section at the bottom of All Tasks.

Subtasks break a task into a checklist of smaller steps, such as a shopping list.

Yes. Every task has a Notes field for extra detail or context, and web addresses, phone numbers and street addresses in it become links.

Yes. Attach photos and files to a task, and record audio memos, with optional transcription into the notes. Attachments are stored in your private iCloud.

The Habits tab shows your habits as cards with streaks. Incomplete habits sort to the top, and you can log any past day by picking a date.

Five types: Simple (yes or no), Segment (named slots like AM and PM), Count (a tally toward a target), List (daily text entries), and Measure (a decimal value over time).

Each card shows a streak flame that turns orange at seven or more days, plus an optional seven-day trend chart.

Mantras are a daily mindset practice. Tap Add Mantras to turn on ones from the built-in library, or Create Custom to write your own with a label, title, and passage.

Tap a card to mark it practiced. Practice resets each day and builds a streak. Built-in mantras can be turned off and returned to the library rather than deleted.

A page for every day, beside your tasks and habits. Today is always at the top, and every day you have written in is listed below it. Entries hold rich text, lists, checklists, quotes and photos, and save as you write. A calendar shows the days you wrote and lets you fill in a day you missed, and the Journal has its own search.

When you first open the Journal you choose a schedule: Once Daily, Morning and Evening, Morning, Afternoon, and Evening, or Custom, where you name your own. With check-ins on, the Journal shows how many of today’s are still unwritten. You can change the schedule any time in Journal Settings, and changing it never deletes an entry.

Each entry can open with short questions, answered with five faces from Very Bad to Great or a 1 to 10 scale. Use the suggestions or write your own, and limit a question to certain check-ins or certain days of the week. Every question is optional, and changing or deleting one never changes what you answered before.

Yes. Tap the record button in an entry and talk. Keep the recording with the entry, or have PathDay turn it into text in the page.

Yes. Entries take the same categories and #hashtags as your tasks. Type a #hashtag in an entry and it becomes a tag, and you can set a default category and tags for new entries in Journal Settings. Journal entries do not appear in the main Search screen; use the search in the Journal.

An optional kind of entry with its own questions, such as how vivid the dream was. It is off until you turn it on in Journal Settings.

The Pomodoro timer alternates focus sessions with short and long breaks (default 25, 5, and 30 minutes, four sessions per cycle), and every duration is configurable.

It stays in sync across your devices, shows a Live Activity and Dynamic Island countdown, keeps a session History, and notifies you when a session or break ends. You can also link a focus session to a task to track the time you spend on it, or start one from the mini timer inside the task editor.

Bar charts for Daily (seven-day), Monthly (twelve-month), or Yearly (five-year) periods, covering Tasks, Habits, and Mantras, with Category and Tag filters.

Search finds tasks by name or notes, and you can narrow results by status, recurring, Category, and Tag filters.

Tap the trophy in the task editor to flag a task as an achievement. Achievements collect on the Achievements tab, grouped by year and month. You can turn the feature on or off under Settings, User Preferences.

Yes. PathDay syncs through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.

No. Sync uses the Apple ID already signed into your device.

Sign in with the same Apple ID and your data syncs automatically.

Yes. PathDay works offline and syncs your changes once you are back online.

Make sure reminders are set on the task and that notifications are enabled under your device Settings, Notifications, PathDay.

Your data is stored in your private iCloud account using Apple’s CloudKit, which includes strong encryption. PathDay never sells or shares your data.

PathDay uses Apple Intelligence on supported devices to read tasks you enter in plain language, and Apple’s speech recognition to turn recordings into text when you ask it to. Transcription runs on your device where your device supports it; where it does not, Apple’s speech recognition service handles it, the same service Apple uses for dictation. Nothing you type or record is sent to Minds Illuminated or to any third party, and PathDay does not use any outside AI service. Where Apple Intelligence is unavailable or switched off, PathDay works the same way using its built-in parser.

Go to Settings, Manage Data, Delete All Data. A two-step confirmation erases all of your tasks, categories, tags, reminders, attachments, habits, mantras, focus sessions, Quadrants, Journal entries with their photos and recordings, and pending notifications.

Open Settings, Manage Data, Storage. It lists the photos, recordings and attachments PathDay keeps in iCloud, largest first, so you can clear what you no longer need. If your iCloud storage fills up, PathDay tells you.

Yes. Every feature is included at no cost. There is no paid tier, no subscription, and no in-app purchase.

Yes. Choose Automatic, Light, or Dark under Settings, or pick one of the color themes.

Under Settings, User Preferences you can set default priority, category, and tags for new tasks, choose card styles, configure the bottom-bar tabs, toggle count badges, and show or hide the daily quote.

Yes. See the Road Map for what just shipped, what is being built now, and what comes after. To ask for something, send a request from Settings > Support & Feedback in the app.

Yes. Short videos about PathDay are on the PathDay YouTube channel. You can also follow PathDay on Bluesky and X using the links at the bottom of every page.

Not currently. PathDay is a native app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.