Changelog
What changed in Sailyn, newest first.
A place to talk to other people A blog and something closer to a forum, for people with ADHD, sitting alongside the app rather than inside it. The reason it is not built is that a community needs moderating from the first day and moderating it badly is worse than not having one. Being thought about
Shells A second thing to earn, separate from coins on purpose. Coins are for levelling your character; shells would be for membership discounts, occasional free months, and eventually decorating a place of your own. Kept apart because a currency that buys both progress and membership turns saving up into a reason not to pay, and then the progress stops meaning anything. Being thought about
Bringing someone in If Sailyn is any use to you, telling somebody else should be worth something. Shells, most likely. It needs to reward a real person who actually stays, not a second account, and that is the part that takes the time. Being thought about
Travel schedules A trip breaks every assumption the planner makes. The hours move, the timetable stops applying, and most of the day is not yours to spend. Q4 2026
Holding apps shut on iPhone Apple only allows this from a native app with an entitlement they grant by request. Android and desktop already block. iPhone gets Focus mode, the lock screen and reminders until then. Waiting on Apple
Some things are deliberately not planned. Nothing tracks your idle time and turns it into points you missed, because that punishes rest. Medication is a quiet reminder and never worth points. And there is no leaderboard that shows anything about you beyond a name and one number.
Sailyn's warm accent is now coral: the card that suggests what to do now and the days you were active this week. The website says more plainly what Sailyn does.
The website now starts with the problem Sailyn is built for, knowing what to do and not being able to start, and says plainly that it is built first for university students with ADHD while staying open to everyone else who finds starting hard.
When a newer Sailyn is ready for your phone, computer or browser extension, Sailyn suggests it each time you open the app, with what changed, and you can update now or later. Only a version too old to keep working asks you to update before carrying on.
Read photos now takes up to 20 photos a week and 6 a day, in as many goes as you like, instead of one go a week.
The widget on Windows, Mac and Linux is now a glass panel that shows the whole of today's plan, with the one on now lifted, and a Sail now button.
Add Sailyn's widget from Settings, Devices: on Android one tap asks your home screen to place it, with the steps beside it, and on a computer you choose its size there or from the Sailyn icon.
Pause and play on Sailyn's lock-screen card pause and resume your session. When other audio takes the lock screen, the session keeps running, and back in Sailyn one tap puts its card on the lock screen again.
A status page at joinsailyn.com/status says whether Sailyn is working right now, part by part, with the last 90 days of uptime and every outage and maintenance window.
Plan from photos: choose photos of a timetable, a handwritten list or notes, up to ten at once, and what Sailyn reads on them opens in the same preview as a calendar file, with tasks underneath. One go a week, and the photos are never kept.
AI assistants and scripts can add tasks with your capture key, through an MCP server with one tool, add_tasks, or a plain API. Both can only add, never read, change or delete.
Six new articles, each with its sources: time blindness, why transitions are hard, forgetting to eat, planning around burnout, rest as part of the work, and sensory load and focus.
The demo shows what is new: Planning and wellbeing on Balance with meals and a medication, steps inside a task, and a lecture later today that Now plans around.
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Longer messages to Tell Sailyn get an answer instead of an error, and a trip such as "Going to Nuremberg on 21 October at 11pm" is added straight away.
Tell Sailyn reads two things on one day as two: "at 2pm an online meeting and on the same day at 6pm an event" adds both, each at its own time, and "at 4pm call mum" is a call at four.
A photo of one day's timetable adds that day's sessions once, and only a timetable that repeats is added every week.
With the widget on, Sailyn starts with your computer, so the widget is on your desktop after a restart.
The computer widget opens on a screen you can see, even after a monitor it sat on is unplugged.
Sail now and Add on the computer widget start a session and open the add sheet with one click.
Sailyn's widget is in the Android home screen's list of widgets.
On iPhone and iPad, your own music keeps playing alongside Sailyn, and starting it no longer pauses a session. Sailyn's sounds play on top of it, and only a sound you choose in Sailyn takes over.
Wellbeing is Off, Balance or Priority. With it on, meals are kept in Wellbeing rather than as routines, medication reminders have their own section, and optional cycle tracking estimates the next period as a range of days.
Priority puts meals and medication first: while a meal or a dose is due, Now shows it in place of the next task until you answer. Balance plans as usual and nudges you instead. Medication reminders and cycle tracking are in Planning and wellbeing whatever the mode, and the first run asks how Sailyn should look after you.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are no longer routines. They live in Planning and wellbeing and show up under Balance and Priority, and medication has its own reminders there too.
Wellbeing reaches you as notifications too: meal time, half an hour before bedtime, a daily time to move, water reminders and medication running low. Medication can count what is left, and a private log kept only on your device shows your last week.
At night Sailyn asks whether you are going to sleep, and in the morning, when it does not know, when you went to sleep and then when you woke up. After midnight it no longer asks when you woke up while you are still up.
Any task can be broken into steps, written in your own words. Now names the next step under the suggestion, a session shows it with Step done, and Just 5 minutes starts with it.
Day view draws a whole day at real size. Drag your own work to a new time or change its length, with the arrow keys too, and Sailyn keeps it there until you let it choose again.
Time you can see: a session shows a bar that shrinks as its time is used, Now and the session say how long until the next fixed thing, and a running session warns you ten and five minutes before it.
Plan my week: four short steps on Sunday, or any day you choose, from what got done to the three things that matter and how full each day is, with any day made lighter in one tap.
After a heavy week, Now offers to make the next day lighter, and Too much right now leaves Now with one thing to do for two hours, with nudges paused and rewards, sounds and motion quiet.
When you finish, choose a break, carry on with what Sailyn puts next, or stop for now. When a break ends, nothing starts on its own: go back, take a few more minutes, or stop.
Focus nudges come every 3, 15 or 30 minutes, or as often as you set, each a short line that fits where you are in the session and does not repeat until the others have been used. Breaks have nudges of their own, and the lock screen shows no task name unless you choose to show it.
Plan has a search box: type part of a name to find tasks, fixed sessions and every day a recurring session falls on, in time order.
Now never suggests a task that does not fit before your next class or meeting. It counts the time to get there and get ready, offers a shorter session of work that can be split, and keeps work that needs one sitting for when there is room.
Reminders now arrive with Sailyn closed in any browser with notifications on, as they already did in the apps: medication, meals, classes, tasks at a time and routines. On iPhone and iPad in a browser they still need Sailyn open.
On a computer, Ctrl+K or Cmd+K opens a command bar to add a task, tell Sailyn, start one of your tasks, find a class or go anywhere.
Sailyn for Windows, Mac and Linux opens straight away with no connection, on your plan as you last had it.
With no connection, Now keeps the order Sailyn last gave you, with anything you add since underneath. Tell Sailyn and setting a goal in a sentence need a connection, and keep what you typed until you are back.
Planning and wellbeing, in Settings: choose Balanced or Wellbeing priority and Sailyn takes your sleep and meals into account, ends the day's planning at your bedtime, asks once in the morning when you woke, and offers to move what does not fit, always with a way to keep your plan.
Now plans around what is fixed: before a class or meeting it suggests what fits, a longer task's session ends five minutes before, and the rest stays in your plan. Your energy, wake-up time, meals and bedtime shape the order and length of what Sailyn suggests.
When today holds more than the time you have left, Sailyn shows a plan before changing anything: the most important work that fits today, what moves to your next working day, and a way to keep your own plan.
A large task, or one you keep putting off, offers Just 5 minutes and a small first step; at five minutes you can stop and the rest stays in your plan.
While a session runs, on this device or another, Now shows that session and the way back to it, and the next task waits until it ends.
Sailyn for Windows, Mac and Linux works offline, as the Android app does: add, change, start sessions and block apps and sites with no connection, and it all syncs when you are back. Tell Sailyn and chat need a connection.
Your plan is kept on each device, so it opens offline. Sailyn checks it with the server at least every ten days, and Settings, Account shows it. Everyone is on Premium during the beta.
Rewards can be hidden in Settings, Look: the coins, the harbour and the light at the end of a session go from every screen, and nothing you earned is lost.
Bring your tasks from Todoist, TickTick or Notion: export a CSV there and choose Import tasks on Plan, beside Link a calendar.
Tell Sailyn reads a count with a length for each one, such as 12 videos of 45 minutes each before Friday, and a mark to reach, such as score 85 percentile in my finals.
Tell Sailyn understands news about a change: "the call moved to Thursday" or "my exam is now on the 20th" moves what is already in your plan.
Tell Sailyn's reply names what it added, and when your plans ask for more than you have been managing it says the week's total in plain words.
First-visit explanations are one line at the top of the screen instead of a card over it, and the break offer after a session waits for your next session if you have already moved on.
Your plan for the day can arrive at 08:00, and on iPhone setup says plainly what works there.
A break can be minimised to the strip above the tabs, like a session, and keeps counting while you look at your day.
The walkthrough has two new parts, your day and wellbeing, and the look and your devices, and How Sailyn works explains everything added this month, step by step.
Pausing asks why first, by a reason you pick or type, then you hold for fifteen seconds; finishing a session early asks whether the work is really done.
Sailyn for Mac: the app in its own window, waiting in the menu bar so reminders arrive and alarms ring with no browser open, and the apps and sites you choose stay closed while a session runs. A blocked site closes just that tab in Safari, Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc. A browser on a Mac now recommends it first, and it is on the Downloads page.
The walkthrough comes in six short parts, from the basics to settings, so you can watch one at a time and come back for the rest.
Start a class or another fixed session after it began and Sailyn asks how long to run: until its usual end, its full length from now, or an end time or a number of minutes you choose.
Minimise a running session to a strip above the tabs and use the rest of Sailyn: see your plan, add a task, change a setting. The clock, the sound, the blocking and your reminders carry on, Pause and Finish are on the strip, and tapping it opens the session again.
Sailyn for Linux, as an AppImage and a .deb: the app in its own window, waiting in the tray so reminders arrive and alarms ring with no browser open, and the programs and sites you choose stay closed while a session runs. A browser on Linux now recommends it first, and it is on the Downloads page.
Every device on a session can pause it or finish it, and all of them pause or finish together, the apps and sites they hold shut included. Unlock here takes out only the one you are holding, whichever device started the session.
Paused and not coming back to it now? Continue later counts what you did, pays for it, and puts the rest back in your plan. For a fixed session the time left becomes a task of its own, and the session ends on every device.
Opening Sailyn catches the device up first: when another device changed something, it shows Syncing for a moment while the changes come in, so you never work on an older copy of your plan.
Widgets in three sizes: on the Android home screen, and on the desktop in Sailyn for Windows, Mac and Linux, from the tray or Settings. They show the session running and its clock, today's focused time and what is next, and a computer now shows a running session on its lock screen too.
Work you log with Done it counts like a session: in your focused hours for your next home and your rank, as a day you worked, and as a lit window in the harbour. What you logged before today is counted once too.
Now shows why it picked the task right under it, and Why this task? opens the rest.
A break has its own colour, so you can tell it from focus time at a glance.
A session shows the sites it is holding shut, under the clock.
Now says how much you have done today against what was planned.
A new look for the app: the task Sailyn picked sits on one bright card with its reason and Start on it, text is set in a typeface made to be easy to read, buttons are rounder and larger, every icon comes from one set, and Day and Night are softer.
Errands like groceries or the gym are planned with the trip there and back, so nothing is squeezed between two classes when the shop is fifteen minutes away. Groceries take about twenty minutes unless you say otherwise.
Share your location once, or keep it up to date while Sailyn is open, for better planning. It stays on your device and Sailyn sees only your region. Need help shows the helplines for where you are.
The harbour's sky and a soft band at the top of every screen follow the time of day, from daybreak through golden hour and dusk to midnight, whichever theme you use. Light, Dark and System stay as you set them, and Moving sky in Settings holds the scenery still.
More contrast strengthens text, outlines and inputs everywhere in the app, and until you choose, Sailyn follows your device's own contrast setting.
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The suggested task's card reads clearly in every theme: its time, its Start button in the dark theme, and a calmer card with Start as the one strong button. The focus room's caption reads clearly too.
When work does not fit the days before a deadline, Plan says how many hours short it is, in your language, and the line is easy to read.
Use my location names your region rather than showing a pair of numbers.
Downloads is in the top bar of the website, so the apps are one tap away from any page.
Your first day is quieter: the questions about email, analytics and the extension wait until after your first session, and the setup screens are shorter.
Creating an account says your username and, when you gave an address, that a link to confirm it is in your inbox. Settings shows who is signed in, with a way to change the username, and connecting an iCloud calendar shows each step, with a button to Apple's page.
A session runs on one clock on every device: a class started on your phone counts down what is left of it, a device that joins shows the same time and the session on its lock screen too, and a pause on one pauses them all.
Removing a task removes it on every device, including one that was asleep and saves before it catches up, and a sitting of a daily goal you remove stays off that day.
Finishing or ending a session on any device ends it on all of them, whichever device started it.
A change made on one device reaches your others without both being open: it is sent as you switch away, and a device that has been asleep keeps what you changed elsewhere rather than its own older copy.
Tell Sailyn reads a room number like 1.1.15 as the place, so "on October 19 review at room 1.1.15 at 12:30" is fixed on that day at that time.
A fixed session you have done shows as done on Plan and Now, and it cannot be started or counted a second time, on any device.
Plan's days fit beside Goals at every window size, and a day's tasks keep their tick and cross on the same line as the name.
A class from a connected calendar or a calendar link that you mark done stays done all day, shows with its check in your day, and Plan's Already done lists everything you did today.
Sync keeps every device in step even when many save at the same moment, sends nothing when nothing changed, and a fixed session can be opened again straight after closing another.
The setup summary shows the reminder you chose and only what applies to your device, a session that does not finish the task ends with End session, Tell Sailyn shows what it added under the box, and an essay said with about 4 hours is named Essay.
Your layout, in Settings: put the sections of Now, Plan and Progress in the order you want, put away the ones you do not use, or pick a ready-made layout for studying, working, one thing at a time or calm. Setup offers three ways in: set Sailyn up yourself, use recommended settings or use sensible ones.
Tick a fixed session done, a class or a calendar event you did without pressing Sail now, say how long it took, and it pays what sailing it would have.
Sailyn for Windows blocks programs and games as well as sites: pick from what is installed, find one on the computer or type its name, and during a session it closes them. A blocked site closes just that tab, in every browser, and the browser stays open.
Sailyn for Windows has its own setup: what to block and starting with the computer. It never asks for the extension, and a browser on Windows now recommends the app first.
When a newer Android app or Sailyn for Windows is out, the old one asks you to install it before you carry on. The browser extension opens its own page to offer the new version, now or later.
A Downloads page has every way to get Sailyn in one place: the Windows app, the Android app, the extension, and iPhone and iPad.
Sailyn shows on your lock screen. In the Android app, a running session counts down there and a quiet line says what is next in your day, which you can turn off in Settings. On Windows, reminders and alarms stay on screen, the lock screen included, until you answer them.
In Your week, a class, a commitment or time kept free can go on several days at once: tap each day it happens.
Nothing you type into Tell Sailyn is lost when Sailyn's reading service is busy: it is read on your device, marked so, and Undo takes it back. A goal with no date gets one steady sitting a day, and on iPhone the Focus automation question adds the two shortcuts when you say yes.
Choose the time zone Sailyn keeps time in, in Settings under You: this device's, which is the default, or a fixed one that stays put whatever the device's clock says.
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Tell Sailyn reads "check in with Anna on 15 October", a catch-up or a 1:1 with somebody as fixed on that day, like a meeting.
Need help now shows the helplines for the place you gave at setup or in Settings, then for where your phone's clock is set, rather than going by the phone's language.
Marking work done and saying how long it took pays by the task and the time, the way a session does.
Tell Sailyn reads a run of things said in order, "cook dinner at 5:30 and after that apply to four jobs and then watch a movie", as each one after the last, with dinner in the evening and how long it takes, and reads "I have German B1 and want B2 by January" as a goal to reach B2.
The browser extension holds a blocked site that was already open when a session starts, WhatsApp Web included, and any tab that reaches one during the session.
A deadline in Readiness on Plan opens its task when you tap its name, where you can change, move or remove it.
A goal added from Add another goal now appears under Goals with its steps, rather than as a task.
Use recommended settings carries on to the next step on a new device, and the hours it picks for you are the ones Sailyn plans in.
Setting Sailyn up yourself asks which hours when you choose Set hours.
A goal with no date starts at a steady two hours a week, and a goal with a date has its hours spread up to that date.
Time kept free shows on Plan and Now as kept free, a placeholder rather than something to start.
A routine's time can be typed in full: it is saved when you leave the field.
Setup on a Windows computer offers Sailyn for Windows beside the browser extension, and the extension page points to it.
Tell Sailyn reads more on its own: this afternoon, after work, after dinner, a count due today, and two things joined by then, such as cook dinner at 5:30 then go live at 7.
A task said on a day, like call grandma on Sunday, is planned on that day rather than before it.
Short things keep their length: ten minutes of meditation is planned as ten minutes, and a glass of water or a pill as a few.
The goal sheet makes a goal from a date too, like run a marathon in March, and still adds your goal when Sailyn's reading service is busy.
A plan with a buddy gets a clean name, without the day and the time in it.
Choosing reminder times during the first run stays in the first run, and setup asks about sound once.
Tell Sailyn names a limit for what it limits, gaming for no more than 2 hours of gaming a day, splits a run joined by then, and keeps what you typed in the box until it is added.
In Sailyn for Windows, the list of programs to block opens straight away and fills in while it finds what is installed.
Your phone and your computer show today's plan with the same times, and a change made on one reaches the other sooner.
Sailyn for Windows: the app in its own window, running in the tray so reminders arrive and alarms ring with no browser open, and the programs and sites you choose stay closed while a session runs. Ctrl+Shift+Space adds a task from anywhere.
Fixed sessions, including ones from a calendar file or a connected calendar, remind you before they start, at the moments you choose in Settings, as a notification, an alarm or both. A task at a time can have its own, routines can be reminded ahead too, and you can start a session on whatever is on now from Now.
Sailyn has a new look: the ship on a night sky over the sea, deep blues across the site and the app, and a new line, Calm the noise, Make your choice.
Your tasks, today's and tomorrow's plan and your deadlines can go into a calendar called Sailyn in your Google, Outlook or iCloud account, and moving, renaming or deleting one there changes it in Sailyn too.
Choose several calendar files at once and each comes in as its own calendar, and connect as many Google, Outlook and iCloud accounts as you have: Sailyn asks which account each time.
Plan the hours left, or tell Sailyn "plan my day", and Sailyn places your open work around what is fixed today, with breaks between, and names what to leave out.
Tell Sailyn "I can work until 18:30" and today's plan ends then, for today only, rather than adding it as something to do.
Tell Sailyn reads a numbered list with a name in front, like "Pass economics 1. Finish the syllabus 2. Past papers 3. Mark and make notes", as a goal with those steps in order.
If you are under 18, extra protection now switches off by itself on your 18th birthday. If your account was made before today, you can add your date of birth once in Settings so it can.
You can choose to share which screens you use and which actions you take with Google Analytics, from Settings under Privacy. It is off unless you turn it on, and it never includes anything you typed.
Sailyn has a page for each kind of person it is for: under-18s, students, adults, working professionals, seniors, and ADHD and neurodivergent minds. The home page lists all six under Who it is for.
A Setup videos page, linked from the footer on every page, shows how to set Sailyn up on Android, on an iPhone or iPad, and on Windows or a Mac.
Setup on an iPhone has one button for each shortcut, Sailyn Focus first, and each turns green with a tick once you have added it.
Four new guides, on coming back after a gap, how to stop procrastinating, how long a focus session should be and how to plan exam revision, and three pages listing alternatives to Forest, Habitica and Motion.
Every article now shows where it sits on the site, who wrote it, and three pages to read next.
The comparisons with Forest, Habitica and Motion now have a side-by-side table, a link to each product's own pages, and answers to the questions people ask.
Articles and answers now link the research behind each claim, and the articles on starting, having too much to do, body doubling and streaks go further, with a worked example, a step-by-step method and what the evidence does and does not show.
A link to an article now shows that article's title when you share it, and the setup videos show which devices they cover before you press play.
Every page now links to its copies in the other six languages from the footer, and the header links to Articles.
The user guide now describes the four tabs as they are, and every page shows where it sits on the site, including the changelog, the setup videos and the legal pages.
Visits to the public pages are now counted with Vercel Web Analytics, without cookies and without identifying anybody. The privacy page says so.
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Tell Sailyn reads subjects to take turns at wherever the list is in your message, including on a line of its own under "Subjects:", and a day written as "on 26th".
A newly linked Outlook calendar shows as connected rather than asking you to disconnect and connect it again.
Chat opens with your current password after you change it in Settings, and every earlier message stays readable.
Insights is in your language throughout, including how your week compares, where each deadline stands and how long until your room grows.
Every ready-made routine, and the step-by-step view that walks you through one, is in your language.
Tell Sailyn reads "buy milk, bread, bananas and pasta" as one shopping trip with the items listed under it.
Tell Sailyn reads "I'm studying these 8 subjects this semester: …" with every subject, "I need groceries" and "after work" without extra words in the name, a day said once for everything after it, and "Plane morgen zwei Stunden für meine Prüfung ein".
The reward at the end of a session, a goal's hours and the reason it will not fit, and the hours at the top of Insights are in your language, with your own decimal comma.
What Sailyn has learned says how your tasks run overall, so it no longer reads as the Work category.
The switches for a connected calendar read as plain sentences with the box beside them, and a routine you write out starts each step with a capital letter.
The Sailyn theme in the shop shows its own teal, whichever theme you are using.
A stepped routine goes through every step when you tap Next quickly, and stops only when you choose Stop.
The helpline list under Need help now fits a phone screen, including findahelpline.com under Somewhere else, and is in your language.
Categories such as Study and Work, challenges, the shop, goals and the planner's examples are in your language.
An event in a connected Apple calendar that runs past midnight keeps its own end time, in your plan and in the Sailyn calendar.
Tell Sailyn "class on 15 October is cancelled" or "no lecture tomorrow" and that one session comes out of your week, whichever calendar it came from, while the rest of the series stays.
A calendar file with the same name as one you already imported is added beside it as a second calendar.
Tell Sailyn reads "finish one video of a duration of 2 hours on introduction to economics" as a two-hour task called Finish one video on introduction to economics.
The time beside each day on Plan counts your classes and calendar events as well as your planned work, and counts time where two of them overlap once.
A calendar file you import is listed under Link a calendar with its name and the day you imported it, and Remove calendar takes all of its sessions out of your week at once. Importing it again updates it rather than adding a second copy.
Tap a class or calendar event on Plan or in your week to start a session on it, rename it or say where it is. Its cross asks whether to take out just this one or every one with its name.
Anything fixed from one time to another, a class, a calendar event or something you told Sailyn runs from 10 to 13:15, shows when it ends as well as when it starts.
Tell Sailyn "from 5 October to the end of January I want to study 2 hours every day, these subjects: maths, physics, chemistry" and each day's session is for the next subject in turn.
When a session from a daily or weekly plan did not happen, Sailyn asks once the next day whether to do it today as well or let it go, instead of piling it onto today.
Two fixed sessions at the same time are marked on Plan with what each overlaps, and a fixed session's start and end can be changed from its sheet, for this one or every one at that time.
A meeting invitation emailed to Sailyn keeps its Zoom, Meet or Teams link: the meeting's name shows in blue on Plan and in your week, and tapping it twice joins the meeting.
Anything in Coming next on Now, on Plan or in a day of the fortnight opens when tapped, so a task Tell Sailyn added can be renamed, moved or removed from where you see it.
Times from a calendar file, a calendar link or an emailed invitation follow the time zone your phone is in, so a 10:00 lecture in Berlin shows at 13:30 in India and at 10:00 again once you are back.
Free time with a buddy in another country is worked out on each person's own clock, so 13:00 in Germany is checked against 16:30 for a friend in India, including the classes they imported.
Tell Sailyn names a meeting with who and where, like "Meeting with Anna at uni", and a Zoom, Meet or Teams link you paste is kept on it: the name shows in blue and tapping it twice joins.
An event's place from a calendar file or a connected calendar shows after its name on Plan, in your week and in the day, without changing the name.
The privacy policy is shorter, and says plainly what is collected, why, who receives it and what your rights are.
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Something planned for a time keeps that time when you move it to Later and back, pause its goal or choose its own length.
Tell Sailyn reads a run of dates in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch and Polish, such as "vom 5. Oktober bis Ende Januar", including the end or middle of a month, and keeps those words out of the name.
Saying "remove all my Robot Programming lectures" takes them out of your week, and anything Tell Sailyn changes or removes can be taken back with Undo.
A room such as "in room 9.E.26" is kept as where something is rather than in its name, and "travel takes 2 hours" no longer leaves a word behind in the name.
Tell Sailyn reads "2 hours tomorrow morning" as one session rather than a daily habit, "study from 5 October" as when to start rather than a deadline, and "cancel tomorrow's lecture" as that one class, and reads "tous les jours" and "elke week 3 keer" as the rhythms they are.
Tell Sailyn reads a whole paragraph as one message: several things with their own days and times, copies like "create four exams", and one thing that happens after another.
When a message leaves something unclear, like a time missing for one part or a morning written as 11pm, Sailyn adds everything else and asks one short question about the rest.
You can change your plan by saying so: "move my gym session tomorrow to 8pm", "cancel the dentist" or "add milk and eggs to the shopping list".
When the AI service Sailyn uses cannot be reached, Sailyn asks a backup running the same model in Paris, so Tell Sailyn keeps working.
Messages Sailyn sends to the AI are kept, with no account, name or time on them, to improve how it reads, unless you turn this off in Settings, Privacy.
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Setup on each device says what that device does: iPhone and iPad ask once to add Sailyn to the Home Screen and show where Share is on each, Android's button says Download the app, and a computer's permissions no longer mention a phone.
Settings on iPhone says plainly what the Focus shortcut does: it turns a Focus mode on, and it does not block apps or sites.
The browser extension's download unpacks straight into the folder Chrome asks you to choose, and its guide names the App blocking settings where your sites live.
The sign-up page keeps its own heading and button in every language, the extension page's download button is easy to read, and the offer to add the browser extension waits until other windows are closed.
Tell Sailyn keeps a day you name once for everything you list after it, treats a time something must be finished before as a deadline rather than an appointment, and no longer mistakes how long a task takes for travel time.
Your welcome lines are written from what you told Sailyn, a routine described in a paragraph becomes its steps, and a plan with a friend takes its name and length from what you wrote.
Whatever Tell Sailyn adds to your plan by itself can now be taken back with Undo, the same as a plan it writes for you.
Tell Sailyn reads an Italian day written with its accent, a Polish time like "o 18", and several plans listed in one Spanish, French, Italian or Polish sentence, each at its own time.
Tell Sailyn reads long messages with several parts reliably, and when it cannot read one it adds nothing and says why and when to try again.
Undo takes back exactly what Tell Sailyn or the planner just added, and a task you remove stays removed on every device.
Tell Sailyn several dates, each with its own time or one time for all of them, and every one goes on your plan, not only the first.
Classes, meetings and shifts on a rhythm go into your week at their time: every Monday, every other Thursday, every two weeks on Tuesday, the third or the last Friday of the month, the 1st of every month, once a year, from one date to another, and without the dates you leave out.
Say how long it takes to get somewhere, or how far away it is, and a reminder to leave sits before each one, counting any time you want to be there early. Anything with a clock time now reminds you shortly before it.
Say you are away, on holiday or keeping a day free, and those days are kept clear in your week with nothing planned on them.
Ask for several things in one message and each one is done, including work that belongs to each meeting, like a report due the Friday before it or notes the day after.
Adding a task by hand has an At a set time section: give it a day, a start and an end, and it goes on your plan as an appointment that long.
Chats are encrypted on your device, so only the people in them can read what is said. The Sailyn team can still open a chat with a separate key to stop scams and look into reports.
Tell Sailyn understands more of how people write dates, times, goals and lists.
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A meeting written as 14 to 18 keeps its end and holds the four hours, and a meeting with no end given holds an hour instead of a short sitting.
Ending a session stops its reminders straight away, including one ended seconds after it started, and a shared plan that has already begun sends no reminder that it is coming up.
The link in a password reset email opens the new password form straight away, and creating an account waits for the username check instead of asking you to pick another name.
Reminders about what is waiting name only work you can start today, never a meeting or a task set for a later day.
A weekly amount, like ten hours of study or a book a week, is spread across the week in sittings instead of one long block.
Say what you need to buy and it becomes one errand with a list on it, not one task per thing. Mention something else later and it joins the shop already waiting, so you never end up with two.
A shopping list now opens from the arrow beside its errand. Tick things off or remove them with the cross, it shows under the time while you shop, and when you finish its list is kept under Shopping trips in Insights while the errand stays on your plan, done, until the end of the day.
Session reminders stop when the session does, including after a reload or on another device, and an open-ended Sail now is no longer told its time is up. The browser extension's block page now reads in your language even if you chose it on another device.
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On Android, an open-ended Sail now keeps your chosen apps held shut until you end it, and its notification counts up from when you started.
After you log one for a goal counted in things, you can log the next straight away.
Every page of the website reads in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch and Polish: how Sailyn works, the answers, the user guide, the privacy page, the terms, the changelog and the new answer pages.
The app itself reads in all six languages: the walkthrough, your reading list, sharing your progress, the story and the insights, notifications, the ready-made routines, the shop and the harbour's seasons.
Every page of the website has its own address in each language: joinsailyn.com/de/about.html reads in German, and the language switcher keeps you on the page you were reading.
The language you choose now follows you in both directions: pick it on the website and the app opens in it when you sign in, pick it in the app and the website follows, and the most recent choice is the one every device uses.
Notifications now arrive in the language you read Sailyn in: session reminders, the end of a session, a plan somebody is expecting you for, and the daily nudge.
The browser extension reads in your language too: the page a blocked site shows, the panel behind its icon, and the permission screen at install.
Settings, Look now holds three settings for getting around: motion you can hold still, contrast you can raise, and text you can make larger. Each belongs to the device you set it on.
One page now holds every article on the site, and four new ones are on it: why starting a task can be harder than doing it, what Sailyn does differently for ADHD, how it handles a term of deadlines and a timetable, and how it fills the hours between meetings.
Plan shows a connected calendar's events on any day it reaches, up to about 200 days ahead.
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A day in Plan that holds only a class or a calendar event opens to show it, instead of reading clear.
Your tasks, goals and timetable are stored encrypted on the server, under a key belonging to your account that is destroyed the moment you delete it.
Set a goal counted in things, like 20 books this year or 500 km, and Sailyn works out the pace and puts the next one in your week. Tap I finished one whenever you finish one, early or late, and the rest re-paces itself.
Now shows one task at a time. Why this task? opens the reasons under it, and Start and Not now sit side by side at the same size.
Plan moves through time. Step a fortnight earlier or later, or go straight to any date, to see work planned months ahead and what you finished on days that have gone.
The front page shows the app itself: one day in six moments, from the task Sailyn picks to the week moving around a day that did not happen.
Pausing a session is one tap and says how much time is banked. Why you paused is asked afterwards, and only if you want to say.
The charts on Progress add up across the week, so a quiet day is a flat stretch rather than a drop.
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Next Monday is next week's Monday, and on Friday means that Friday rather than every Friday. A day you name is the day you named.
Half an hour is planned as thirty minutes, and a meeting written from 14:00 to 15:30 gets both its start and its end.
Plan's fortnight shows every day once, including the day the clocks change.
Events from a connected calendar show under their own names, not the calendar's.
Your plan puts each task at a time in your day, inside your working hours and around your classes and plans.
When something fixed lands in your day, only what comes after it moves. Anything you have started or finished stays where it is.
Mark time as kept free, like lunch or training, and choose the days you work. Sailyn never plans work into either.
Anything you did not get to moves to today on its own, and nothing is marked as overdue.
Once a kind of work has some history, Sailyn plans it for as long as it usually takes you, says where that number came from, and lets you use your own instead.
Now shows your week: which days you have worked on something, and how many so far against the target you chose.
Every way a calendar comes in is behind one button on Plan now, Link a calendar: a calendar file, a subscription link, and a connected Google or Outlook account.
Connect your Google calendar, and your week follows it as it changes, each event under its own name.
Add a task from anywhere: press N on a computer, share a page or text to Sailyn on Android, or send a line from an iPhone Shortcut.
Mail you send to Sailyn is read in full: a message naming a day lands on that day, a list with a deadline becomes a plan, and a meeting invitation goes into your week at its own time. A line sent from your iPhone shortcut is read the same way.
Your reading list shows how far through each book you are, as a bar with the pages beside it. A book you add without a page count counts reading sessions instead.
Goals and books can be paused. Their planned sessions leave the plan, everything already done stays, and resuming plans the rest from today.
Notices is now Chat. Sailyn is the first conversation, and every buddy you link with is one under it, with a count on the cloud for anybody new or unread.
When you report somebody you can say what happened in your own words and attach a picture. Only the Sailyn team reads them.
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Dictation listens and fills in the box when you plan a day or add a goal, and says on screen when a browser or phone cannot.
Sharing your progress or a story opens the share sheet on Android.
The plus is on every tab, not only Plan.
Now suggests one task to do now, the only one you start from there, and shows the four coming next under it.
Ready-made routines for showering, grooming and getting your steps in, so a morning does not have to be written out from scratch.
A reading list behind the plus. Add a book and its pages, and Read now puts it in your plan as sessions, up to a finish date if you give one or about twenty pages a day if you do not.
A walkthrough that plays itself on a demo week and shows each part of Sailyn: the harbour, your room and light, tasks, goals and goals with other people, both Sail buttons, the buddy link, the timetable and the semester. Setup offers it, and it stays in Settings.
The harbour and your room's window follow the sky where you are. The sun and the moon move with the time, and clear skies, cloud, rain, storms, snow and fog show as they happen. It can be turned off in Settings.
Sailyn fits more screens: a tablet in portrait, a folding phone opened out, and a folding phone's narrow cover screen.
Now opens on your harbour: a painted scene that lights one window for every session you finish today, with Sail now and Sail now with someone under it and your next few tasks below. Everything the old Now carried is still there, further down.
Four tabs instead of six: Now, Plan, Tasks and Progress. Settings is the gear on Progress and your account is the picture on Now.
Plan is arranged by the moments in your day, after breakfast, in the morning, after lunch, after dinner and in the evening, with one plus for everything you can create.
Tasks is your backlog, on one-line rows. Tap a row for everything you can do with it.
Progress leads with three numbers and your week as bars, then your harbour. Story, Insights and Challenges are its three parts.
Finishing a session plays a short moment: the window fills with lamp light and your minutes count up. Landmark days play it larger. A sound can come with it, off unless you turn it on in Settings.
A weekly target of three, four or five days, set in Settings. Each week you meet banks a shelter day, up to three, and a short week is covered by them without asking.
Rescue mode: when a deadline is inside two days, Now offers to plan the hours you actually have, say what to leave out and put the breaks in.
Coming back after three days away opens on your harbour, exactly as you left it, with a ten minute start.
Share your harbour as a picture, sized for a post or a story.
Try Sailyn at joinsailyn.com/demo with a week already in it, no account needed. Nothing in the demo is saved.
The day streak is gone from every screen and from sharing. Progress shows this week against your target instead.
The app is lighter to load: the recorded sounds, the Android build and the browser extension come from a separate store.
Tell Sailyn a commitment in your own words, like studying every day until a date for so many hours, and it keeps how often, how much and until when, instead of turning it into a list of sessions.
Only languages that are fully translated are offered, detected from your browser or linked for search engines.
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An open tab picks up a new version of Sailyn on its own, and waits until your session has ended to do it.
The setup walk, the intro tour and device setup are translated into every language Sailyn offers.
Sign-in and the page about who built Sailyn are translated, and every word on the public site is ready for translation. The Impressum keeps the parts that have to stay in German.
Focus sessions, planning, goals, your timetable, app blocking and sync across your devices.
Sail now with someone: one shared session, with one clock for everyone in it.
Plan something with linked buddies. Each of them can say yes, no or suggest another time.
A button for when you need help now, with the crisis line for your country, always in the same place.
Tasks sit in Now, Later or One day, and a routine can take you through its steps one by one.
Challenges with a daily or weekly pace, shared rather than ranked.
Reminders during a session, and a lock screen card showing what you are working on.
Coins, a light that grows with the hours you focus, and a shop that changes every fortnight.
Optional sound during a session, made on the device so it works offline.
An account page, an optional email for password resets, and undo for anything you delete.
Sailyn is in beta. Things change often, and anything that changes what you agreed to will be said here and on the page it affects before it happens.