Features
Every feature in the Mac beta today, a few ways to use them, and what comes next.
Free while in beta. Mac now, iPhone and iPad in December.
Planning in hours
Every view adds up estimates and time blocks against the hours you really have, minus meetings and busy time.
The plan for the day on the left, the timeline on the right. The header shows the hours planned of the hours you have, and what's free or over.
Seven days side by side, each with its hours. A day or a whole week that runs over turns red and says by how much.
Set hours for each weekday, change one date or make it a day off. Until you do, it's Monday to Friday, 08:00-20:00.
A project's result, its tasks without a week and the weeks of the month with their hours. Give a task a week instead of a day.
Projects by area with their months, and how many run at once. Pull the edge of a project's bar to change its months.
Unfinished tasks move to today by themselves. Review sends each one to the week, off the day or to done.
Tasks and projects
Areas, projects and sections in the sidebar. Every task can carry a deadline, an estimate and the time it really took.
Areas like Work or Health hold your projects. A project can hold another project, two levels deep.
Split a project into sections with ⇧⌘N, or make a section from the tasks you selected.
A task without a project or a day lands in the Inbox. Sort it by hand, or ask the assistant to do it.
Put a task off with When → Someday, or type "next week" to give it a week. Undated tasks wait under the Week.
⇧⌘D sets a deadline, ⇧⌘E an estimate. On the Week and Month, click the gray clock on a card to estimate it.
A finished task shows how long its blocks took, next to your estimate: 2.3 h · est. 1 h.
Done tasks move to Completed right away, once a day or when you press ⇧⌘Y, as in Things.
Drag a task and a gap opens where it will land, or use ⌘↑ and ⌘↓. Paste text, and each line becomes a task.
Show the List, the Day's plan and the Week's tray by projects, by part of the day, or as one list.
Time blocks
Drag tasks onto the Day's timeline between your meetings. The task stays one task in its project.
A dashed block with the task's name and time, like 18:00-20:00 · 2 h, follows the pointer in 15-minute steps.
An hour before the 9:00 meeting and two after it. Each block says which part it is, like block 1 of 2.
Pull the top edge to change the start, the bottom one to change the end, or type the times in the task.
When blocks overlap, the timeline shows how many. Click the count to end one block where the next begins.
Drag on an empty part of the timeline to mark time that isn't a task. It comes off your hours like a meeting.
Tasks without a set time sit in Morning, Afternoon and Evening. Drag one into another part of the day.
Calendars and meetings
ALT reads the Calendar app on your Mac, so your iCloud, Google, Exchange and Outlook accounts all show up.
Pick the calendars that take time out of your hours. All-day, declined and Free events are skipped at first.
Drag it or pull an edge, and it changes in your calendar too. ⌘Z puts it back.
A meeting with participants asks before it moves. A repeating one asks: only this one, or this and the following.
A meeting someone else organizes, or one from a read-only calendar, shows a lock and says why.
Add to Tasks puts it in a project. It stays one block, now with a checkbox, and its hour counts once.
Move, rename or delete the meeting, and its task follows. When the meeting is over, the task is checked off.
ALT changes a meeting only when you move it. Your task blocks stay in ALT and aren't written to your calendar.
The assistant
Open the chat with ⌘J, type or dictate, and every change comes as a card you apply or reject.
New tasks get an estimate and a time between your meetings, inside your working hours.
It shows what changes and what that does to the hours of the days and the week. Apply or Reject.
Undo Applied Changes in the chat, or any batch from the last 7 days in Change History.
Tasks, working hours, days off, busy time, areas, projects, sections and notes.
Advice or a translation, too. Changes to your plan still come as a card.
With an Anthropic key, it searches the web and puts its sources right after the facts.
Speech is recognized on the device, and nothing is sent until you press send.
Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter. The key stays in your keychain, and requests go straight to that service.
Claude Code and Codex
ALT runs a local MCP server on your Mac. Connect once, and they read and change your plan and notes while you work.
Switch on the card in Settings → AI, copy the command and run it once in Terminal.
A day, a week, a month or the year, with tasks, projects, areas, estimates, deadlines and notes.
With Change on, they create and edit tasks, projects, areas, sections and notes.
Several changes at once, time slots, plans for a week or a month and every deletion wait for your Apply.
Each one sees all areas, one area or one project, and only reads until you allow changes.
New tasks get a dot, each change shows in the chat with who made it, and any batch can be undone.
Notes
Notes live in ALT next to your tasks. Write them as in Workflowy and take them out as Markdown. Notes are on the Mac for now.
Open a project or an area and press ⌘8. An area shows its own notes and its projects' notes.
Return makes the next item, Tab nests it, ⌘↓ and ⌘↑ unfold and fold it.
- [ ] makes a checklist, # a heading, [[Note]] a link to another note.
A photo shows under its item, and a web address becomes a link you can click.
File → Export Notes to Markdown... writes every note as an .md file, in folders by area and project.
The chat, Claude Code and Codex read, create and rewrite notes. Show in note previews the chat's changes.
Native and keyboard
Built in SwiftUI. Screens switch in 0.12 s and typing takes 16 ms a letter, measured in our tests on a plan with 550 tasks.
Press ⌘F or just start typing: tasks, projects, areas, sections and views. Type "today" for today's Day.
⌘K completes, ⌘S sets When, ⌘T moves to today, ⇧⌘M moves to a project, ⌃] shifts a day.
Select with ⇧↑↓, ⌘A or ⌘-click. Every key acts on all of them, and one ⌘Z undoes it.
Tasks, blocks, meetings, projects, areas and sections each have their own menu.
A Force Touch trackpad gives a light tap when a task lands, when you check it, and at each quarter hour as a block moves.
Follows your Mac's light or dark mode. The interface is in English and Russian.
Privacy
Here is what leaves your Mac, and when.
Tasks, projects, notes and hours live in a database on your Mac. We don't have a copy.
The app has no analytics or tracking code.
The chat sends data only when you send a message, straight to the service whose key you use, not through our server.
Speech is recognized on your Mac. Without a speech model, ALT asks you to download one instead of using the cloud.
The MCP server answers only apps on this Mac. Claude Code and Codex send what they read to Anthropic and OpenAI, so you can limit them to one area or one project.
ALT changes a meeting only when you move it yourself. Take access back in System Settings any time.
Use cases
Short stories built only on what works in the Mac beta today.
A manager with a day of meetings
Meetings from Google and Outlook land on the Day, and the header shows what's left. Drag the report into the gap; move the 15:00 sync to make room, and it moves in Calendar too.
A day that fits, planned in one window.
Anyone with a full Inbox
Say "Sort my inbox." One card gives every task a project and a day. Check it and tap Apply.
An empty Inbox, and nothing changed without your say.
A founder launching a site
Give the project October and November on the Year. On the Month, put each task into a week, then let the Week show which day has room.
A crowded November shows up in September.
Someone with a client call
Click the meeting and choose Add to Tasks. It goes to the client's project and stays one block on the Day. Keep the agenda in the project's notes.
If the call moves, the task moves. When it ends, it's checked off.
A developer in the terminal
Ask Claude Code to plan the week's work. The plan comes to ALT as a proposal that shows what it does to your hours.
Tap Apply, and the new tasks get a dot. One Undo takes them back.
Anyone planning on Monday
The Week shows Thursday at 6.5 of 5.5 hours, in red. Ask the chat "Thursday is overloaded, lighten it" and check the card.
Thursday fits before it starts.
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