The widget is enough now
I use tagwerk every day, and most of the time I don't see the app at all, just the widget on my home screen. One glance and I know what's on today.
For appointments, though, that glance used to fall short. I often add a few lines to an event: the address, a phone number, what the conversation is about. To read them, I had to open the app, jump to the day and find the entry. Tasks could be opened from the widget for a while now. Events couldn't.
With tagwerk 1.8, tapping an event in the widget opens a popover with all its details. Read, close, move on. The app stays closed.
And when plans change, you can handle that right in the widget too: move the appointment, change its time or cancel it. The dentist moves to Thursday, the meeting starts half an hour later, training is off. Two taps, done.
A second fix fits right in, and it had been bugging me for a while: Markdown is now actually rendered in the widget. If you write **important** in a note, the widget shows "important" in bold instead of the asterisks.
Why this matters to me: tagwerk stores every day as one plain Markdown file. The file is yours, it lives with you, and you can open it in any editor. The widget should make that file so easy to read and edit that you don't need anything else for a quick look or a quick change.
Also in this update:
- With the built-in sync (Pro), tagwerk now fetches changes even while the app is closed, for example every 15 minutes or every hour, and then refreshes the widget.
- Better conflict detection: if a day file has already been edited elsewhere and the widget wants to write to it again, tagwerk now detects that more reliably. I'll write about how that works in a separate post.
tagwerk is free on Android and Windows. Linux is on its way.
Get it from the Microsoft Store
Questions or ideas? Write to me, I read everything.
Tom