What changed in 1.8

Kept 1.8 is the build your invitation points at. This is what moved since 1.7, described the way you will meet it.

Capture that finishes the thought

Bring a thought into Capture and turn it into a task or a note in the same motion. Type "Dentist Thursday 3pm" and the event lands on Thursday at three; a date with no time becomes an all-day event and the sheet says so. Type "two eggs and toast" and Kept looks each food up in a nutrition database.

Deadlines with a clock

A task's due day can now carry a time. Tap Add time in Capture, in the task on iPhone, or in the inspector on Mac, and the deadline shows beside the day wherever the task is listed. Planning still runs on the day; the clock is the promise. A due time is not a reminder, so it never asks to notify you.

Kept for Mac, downloadedMac

Kept for Mac now comes straight from kept.do as one universal download for Apple silicon and Intel, macOS 26 or later. The Mac is at 1.8.1. Sign in with Google or an email code there; Sign in with Apple stays on iPhone and the Mac App Store build.

Goals you can point at

Link tasks and habits to a goal, see what comes next, and choose what counts as progress. Suggestions stay separate until you link them, so a goal only ever holds work you chose to put there.

Notes that keep up

Every letter lands, no matter how fast you type, and if a shared edit cannot be placed Kept keeps a private copy of your words. Press / on any line for a heading, a to-do, a quote, a list, a table, an image, or a callout. Find the notes you recently opened. If a shared edit cannot be applied, Kept keeps a private copy of your words before it reloads the shared note.

Reminders you choose

Pick which briefings you want and when the morning one arrives. On iPhone, connect a supported Apple Health rule to a habit, including minutes from walking workouts, and let the walk check itself in.

MacMac

Resize Today's note. Preview a note before you link it to a task. Reorder a task's steps by dragging. Choose which task properties the inspector shows. Browse editor commands with the keyboard, and dismiss an event by clicking outside it.

Getting around

Tap your avatar to open the drawer; tap the title for the same drawer, or in Notes for the lens menu. Find your notes the way you think: one title, one menu, pick All notes, a folder, or a tag. Pin what you keep coming back to.

Widgets

The Today widget leads with the day: the small size shows what is next, and the medium and large sizes add your date, your three, and your habits. The Tasks widget can show your Top 3.

Arriving gradually

Some of 1.8 is switched on account by account while we watch it: the Record, suggested tags when a capture becomes a note, the skills library, the habit builder, and multi-item capture. The guide marks each one.

For the full history, the release folders live in the repository at docs/releases.