About Mayday: The Calendar Assistant
Mayday is the next generation of scheduling software, that uses AI to personalize productivity. Combining an AI Assistant with a calendar and task manager, Mayday learns what’s important and ensures everyone spends time...
Mayday is the next generation of scheduling software, that uses AI to personalize productivity. Combining an AI Assistant with a calendar and task manager, Mayday learns what’s important and ensures everyone spends time on what matters most.
This release currently supports Google Calendar, Google Meets, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom accounts. Additional integrations are coming soon.
— AI-based Scheduling —
Mayday analyzes your calendar and scheduling patterns in order to determine when the ideal time for different types of events and tasks will be. Automatically find an ideal time for anything you need to schedule or re-schedule.
- AI that applies different scheduling hours for different types of events and tasks
- One-click reschedule to a new ideal time as priorities shift
- Assessment of your and your guests’ true availability based on multiple shared calendars and timezone constraints
— AI-scheduled Tasks —
Block out time for the things that you need to do with Tasks for Mayday. With flexible tasks created in Mayday, your AI assistant can reschedule your tasks as priorities evolve:
- Create tasks with unique attributes across multiple different calendars
- Auto-rescheduled tasks find new ideal times automatically as soon as conflicts with other events or tasks arise
- Incomplete tasks from the previous day will automatically reschedule to a new time if left unfinished
— One Timeline —
Mayday brings all of your calendars - work, personal, shared - into one place to create a unified timeline for you. You get a complete picture of the demands on your time and help those you work with to understand when you're available.
- Privacy-first event duplication across calendars
- Unify duplicate events in your timeline
- Mark non-critical events as "FYI" to minimize their impact on your timeline
— Scheduling Links —
With Mayday Scheduling Links, invite others to meetings based on flexible parameters that align with your priorities and let Mayday do the heavy lifting to find the best time to meet for everyone.
- Easily create custom single-use or reusable scheduling links that reflect your true availability
- Book meetings that match the structure of your ideal week, not whenever your calendar is empty
- Create event limits to ensure the same link isn’t used too often
— Smart Tag Automations —
Create automations for different types of events and tasks with Smart Tags and give your calendar more context. Use Smart Tags when creating events in order to quickly set defaults and organize common types of events.
- Create new events and tasks faster with Smart Tag based defaults that fill in your ideal parameters
- Automatic event syncing rules so certain tagged events can be reflected in multiple calendars
— Protect time with Calendar Shield —
Calendar Shield ensures that you have plenty of time to do your work, during work. If a particular day starts to fill with too many meetings, Mayday automatically blocks the remaining time before you can get overloaded.
- Protect time across multiple calendars so your availability is always made clear to others
- Settings to adjust for more or less meetings depending on your role
- Customizable event descriptions
— Your Day at a Glance —
With global shortcuts, Mayday lives in your Mac's menu bar and can provide a heads up overview of what coming up next without needing your full calendar.
- Menubar access gives you an overview of your schedule and how much time remains in your current meeting
- Join your next meeting link with one-click from wherever you are
— Your Data, Your Privacy —
We’re taking privacy very seriously, and we only collect the absolute minimum data needed to provide our services to you. We firmly believe this data belongs to you, not to us. We have no intention to resell your data in any way, now or in the future. For more details, check out our Privacy Policy (https://mayday.am/privacy)
Apr 5, 2024
Version 4.9.1
New features:
* Auto-scheduling toggle. Use the new auto-schedule toggle when creating an event or task to switch between AI scheduling and manual scheduling when creating new events and tasks.
General improvements:
* Restructure to event and task creation side panel. Several structural changes were made to optimize the new event and new task creation flow in the side panel. Additional changes were also made to highlighted nested settings when multiple Mayday-specific properties are applied.
* Widget support for MacOS Sonoma. Mayday widgets now run on your desktop for users running MacOS 14 Sonoma.
* Event creation at ideal times from Month View. Updated the logic so that new events created via the Month view create at ideal times instead of as all day events.
Bug fixes:
* Deleting instances of recurring Outlook events. Fixed an issue that was preventing the ability to delete instances of recurring Outlook events.
* Auto-rescheduling flexible tasks conflicting with recurring events. Fixed an issue where flexible tasks that conflicted with recurring events were not auto-rescheduling.
* Conference links opening Apple Maps. Fixed an issue where certain custom conferencing links would open Apple Maps.
* Outlook events with URL locations. Fixed an issue where Outlook events with URLs as locations weren’t properly displaying in Mayday.
* Phone numbers as locations. Fixed an issue where phone numbers added to the location field displayed in duplicate.
* Unified events. Fixed an issue when unifying events on the timeline to ensure the editable version is always prioritized.
* Ideal time UX. Fixed an issue where ideal times weren’t highlighting in green from the time picker during event creation.
* Rescheduled event VQA. Fixed an issue where on rescheduling an event tile in the timeline it would temporarily dim.
* Integrations VQA. Fixes to ensure text copy properly truncates when viewing the add integrations page on iOS.
* Duplicate all day events. Fixed an issue where on editing an all-day event, the tile would temporarily duplicate visually.
* Saving changes to event descriptions. Fixed an issue where on editing an event for only the description, the save button wasn’t active.
* One-click rescheduling from event details. Fixed an issue where the event details wouldn’t automatically dismiss after one-click rescheduling.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Mayday: The Calendar Assistant since it was posted on our website on 2023-06-06 23:12:31.
The latest version is 4.9.1 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 08:54:31. See below the changes in each version.
Mayday: The Calendar Assistant version 4.9.1
Updated At: 2024-04-05
Changes: Apr 5, 2024
Version 4.9.1
New features:
* Auto-scheduling toggle. Use the new auto-schedule toggle when creating an event or task to switch between AI scheduling and manual scheduling when creating new events and tasks.
General improvements:
* Restructure to event and task creation side panel. Several structural changes were made to optimize the new event and new task creation flow in the side panel. Additional changes were also made to highlighted nested settings when multiple Mayday-specific properties are applied.
* Widget support for MacOS Sonoma. Mayday widgets now run on your desktop for users running MacOS 14 Sonoma.
* Event creation at ideal times from Month View. Updated the logic so that new events created via the Month view create at ideal times instead of as all day events.
Bug fixes:
* Deleting instances of recurring Outlook events. Fixed an issue that was preventing the ability to delete instances of recurring Outlook events.
* Auto-rescheduling flexible tasks conflicting with recurring events. Fixed an issue where flexible tasks that conflicted with recurring events were not auto-rescheduling.
* Conference links opening Apple Maps. Fixed an issue where certain custom conferencing links would open Apple Maps.
* Outlook events with URL locations. Fixed an issue where Outlook events with URLs as locations weren’t properly displaying in Mayday.
* Phone numbers as locations. Fixed an issue where phone numbers added to the location field displayed in duplicate.
* Unified events. Fixed an issue when unifying events on the timeline to ensure the editable version is always prioritized.
* Ideal time UX. Fixed an issue where ideal times weren’t highlighting in green from the time picker during event creation.
* Rescheduled event VQA. Fixed an issue where on rescheduling an event tile in the timeline it would temporarily dim.
* Integrations VQA. Fixes to ensure text copy properly truncates when viewing the add integrations page on iOS.
* Duplicate all day events. Fixed an issue where on editing an all-day event, the tile would temporarily duplicate visually.
* Saving changes to event descriptions. Fixed an issue where on editing an event for only the description, the save button wasn’t active.
* One-click rescheduling from event details. Fixed an issue where the event details wouldn’t automatically dismiss after one-click rescheduling.
Mayday: The Calendar Assistant version 4.8.0
Updated At: 2023-11-06
Changes: Nov 6, 2023
Version 4.8.0
General improvements:
* Re-sync calendars button. Added a new button under calendar settings that allows users to manually re-sync Mayday calendars with raw data from Google & Microsoft in the rare event that data does not match expectations.
* Multiple changes in succession. Implemented new change tracking logic that permits making multiple edits in succession without visually reverting any changes or temporarily displaying the events in the previous state.
* Edit calendar colors via calendar settings. Added the ability to edit your calendars directly under enabled calendar settings.
* More calendar color options. Added new suggested default colors for tagging calendars.
* Onboarding video conference integrations. Added a new onboarding screen for connecting video conferencing providers during account creation.
* Rescheduling time frames. Added more clarity on the suggested time ranges for automatic rescheduling by including the dates considered for each time frame.
* Ideal time fall back logic. Added additional logic to ensure an AI-suggested ideal time is offered when no more time is available in the requested time range.
Bug fixes:
* Smart Tag automations. Fixed an issue where Smart Tag automation defaults (add buffer time, sync to other calendars, mark as FYI, etc.) weren’t applying to newly created events with that default Smart Tag.
* Empty calendars. Fixed an issue where when multiple new accounts were created in succession with highly dense calendars, it would take a few minutes for the initial calendar data to load into Mayday.
* Calendar shield writing duplicate blocks of protected time. Fixed a race condition edge case that could cause duplicate blocks of protected time to be written in Google and or Outlook when turning on Protected time.
* App hang. Fixed a few issues that could cause the app to hang, specifically around finding an ideal time when impossible requests are made, and on certain notification edge cases.
* Repeated confirmation messages. Fixed an issue where the confirmation message could be delivered to the user multiple times when editing RSVP status.
* Task tile icon overlap. Fixed an issue where the Flexible icon on tasks would sometimes overlap with the task title.
* Mark as Private toggle on events outside of Mayday. Events created in Google or Outlook and set to be marked as private were not showing the mark as private setting applied in Mayday.
* Editing weekly recurring events. Fixed a visual oddity where when editing a weekly recurring series of events, the saved state briefly renders as occurring every day before resolving as expected.
* Vanishing auto-rescheduled incomplete tasks. Fixed an issue where some tasks would temporarily vanish when auto-scheduling at the end of a day.
* Ideal time suggestions. Fixed an issue where suggested ideal times weren’t highlighted in green during the create event side panel flow.
* Event detail scroll view oddities. Fixed a few issues where the scroll view would shift when toggling on and manipulating settings for buffer time and other properties of the event details mini page.
* Event detail toggles and cancelled changes. Fixed an issue where toggles on the event details page weren’t reverting after the user clicks cancel on the make changes to recurring events modal.
* Saved recurring event visualization. Fixed an issue where on saving a new recurring event, the newly created event could vanish briefly before reappearing in the saved state.
* Calendar settings cleanup. Fixed a few visual oddities to clean up the display of enabled calendars under settings.
* Buffer time keyboard entry. Fixed an issue where typed amounts of buffer time weren’t saving when the buffer time container was closed.
Mayday: The Calendar Assistant version 4.7.0
Updated At: 2023-10-16
Changes: Oct 16, 2023
Version 4.7.0
New features:
* Enhanced Auto-scheduling. Easily find time for tasks and meetings using Mayday’s auto-scheduling AI. When you select the “New” button or press ⌘+N on the keyboard, add your duration and timeframe requirements and Mayday’s AI will find the ideal time for whatever you’re trying to schedule. Simply click the More options button to add additional properties or to schedule manually as needed.
General improvements:
* Scheduling AI updates. Added new logic to the Mayday’s Scheduling AI to fallback to other time block types in the situation where no more availability exists in the requested time range.
* Side panel performance optimizations. A few optimizations were made around how the Mac side panel opens and closes in order to improve performance, specifically for calendars with dense schedules.
Bug fixes:
* Outlook accounts out of sync. Fixed an issue where an Outlook account could be disconnected by Microsoft without notice to the user in Mayday, causing the account in Mayday to come out of sync with Outlook.
* Crash fixes. Fixed a few edge cases that could result in a crashes, specifically when authenticating certain Outlook accounts.
* Auto-rescheduling flexible tasks. Fixed an issue where when conflicts were created between flexible tasks and other events/tasks, the existing flexible tasks would sometimes fail to reschedule.
* Auto-rescheduling around Calendar Shield. Fixed an issue where flexible tasks would fail to auto-reschedule for days when Calendar Shield protected time was turned on.
* Missing Zoom links on Outlook events. Fixed an issue where Outlook events created with Zoom links in Mayday were not updating the location field correctly for attendees.
* Outlook recurring event scheduling. Fixed an issue where Outlook weekly recurring events created in Mayday were writing to the wrong day.
* Duplicating Outlook events. Fixed an issue where creating new recurring Outlook events in Mayday would write duplicate instances to the timeline.
* Edit permissions on auto-generated events. Fixed an issue where events added to your calendar automatically by Gmail (flights, reservations, etc.) clearly reflect as read-only and non-editable in Mayday, as expected.
* Scheduling link locations. Fixed an issue where reusable Scheduling Links were not resetting the location field as previously provided by the guest.
* Scheduling link duplicate events. Fixed an issue where resulting events booked via certain Scheduling links would write duplicate events to the calendar.
* Smart Tag scheduling hours. Fixed an issue where the custom scheduling hours for a Smart Tag were not saving when editing from the side panel.
* Rapid event creation optimizations. Fixed an issue where creating an event and immediately attempting to edit it would create an error that would prevent the update updating in the calendar account.
* Mark as free. Fixed a variety of issues with the Mark as free toggle, specifically in that it wasn’t properly applying from the event details mini view and changes to recurring events in order to mark as free were reseting exceptions of the recurrence to their original times.
* Duplicate recurring events while editing. Fixed a visualization issue where child events in a recurring series would render in duplicate while edits to the series were being made.
* Month view visualization. Fixed a few visualization issues that optimizes how the timeline renders in Month view.
* Rescheduled task visualization. Fixed an issue where past tasks that were one-click rescheduled into the future were not updating visually to render as upcoming tasks.
* Success indicator failing to dismiss. Fixed an issue where the success indicator on the bottom of the timeline would fail to dismiss when carrying out multiple actions in succession.
* Icon alignment issues. Fixed an issue where the description icon wasn’t properly aligning as the field was updated.
Mayday: The Calendar Assistant version 4.6.1
Updated At: 2023-09-29
Changes: Sep 29, 2023
Version 4.6.1
General improvements:
* Flexible task rescheduling. Added new logic around how flexible tasks autoreschedule such that if a user intentionally creates a conflict scenario, only the original flexible task will automatically reschedule to another time.
* Contact sorting. Added new logic to improve the speed and performance around how contacts are prioritized when searching to add attendees.
Bug fixes:
* New flexible tasks creating conflicts. Fixed an issue where a flexible task could be scheduled at a time that would create a conflict with another flexible task.
* Autoscheduled tasks. Fixed an issue where the autoscheduling service could reschedule some tasks in a manner that creates conflicts with other flexible tasks for particularly dense task lists.
* Duplicate recurring events. Fixed an issue where certain recurring events could duplicate when modifications were made to a specific instance of the recurrence.
* 1-click reschedule to next workday. Fixed an issue where requesting a new time for the next workday would sometimes return new times later in the same week.
* RSVP on recurring Outlook events. Fixed an issue that could cause updates to RSVP on recurring Outlook events to revert when made to an exception instance that differs from the other recurring events in the series.
* Rescheduling recurring Outlook events. Fixed an issue where recurring Outlook events could appear to reschedule in Mayday to another day where an a related recurring event exists, despite Outlook forbidding this type of rescheduling scenario.
* Conference object on newly created events. Fixed an issue where newly created events would sometimes require a quit/restart before the conference object was clickable.
* All day event availability. Fixed an issue where certain all day events were triggering Calendar Shield density.
* FYI status changes. Fixed an issue where changes to guest RSVP status on recurring events could revert FYI status on an event.
* Month view event creation. Fixed an issue when creating events from the Month view in order to suggest the an ideal time within the first work day of that month.
* Event tile layout. Fixed an issue where event tiles for new events created outside of Mayday could overlap inconsistently on the timeline.
* Mayday is learning indicator. Fixed an issue where the Mayday is learning indicator vanished.
* Editing Scheduling Links. Fixed an issue where when editing a Scheduling Link to change the location it could not be saved.
Mayday: The Calendar Assistant version 4.6.0
Updated At: 2023-09-26
Changes: Sep 26, 2023
Version 4.6.0
New features:
* Month View. Access a month view for your schedule. Toggle to the new month view from the month picker and view your long term schedule at a glance. With the month view, you can quickly schedule new events at ideal times and drag and drop events/tasks between dates. Quickly toggle between views with keyboard shortcuts for month view ( ⌘+] ) and week view ( ⌘+[ ).
General improvements:
* Outlook data integrity resiliency. Added caching and additional resiliency to data streams from Outlook that could sometimes result in server timeouts (resulting in missing Outlook data, errors making changes to Outlook events, and failures to create Outlook events).
* Something went wrong notifications. Added new indicators that will let you know if an action failed to complete for some unexpected reason (i.e. networking issue, unexpected data anomaly, etc.) so that you can try again and the action won’t fail silently.
* Ideal time fallbacks. Improved logic behind ideal time suggestions to provide offer the next upcoming time in the requested timeframe when no possible ideal time can be found.
* Previews when dragging tasks from list to timeline. When dragging a task from your side panel task list to a dedicated location on the timeline, you can now visually see a preview of where the task will be scheduled.
Bug fixes:
* Ideal time overriding manual date/time. Fixed an issue where the ideal time engine could attempt to override a manual user defined selection for date and time, specifically when scheduling outside of user defined work hours more than 2 weeks in the future.
* Ideal times outside of scheduling hours. Fixed an issue where the ideal time engine could sometimes suggest an ideal time outside of user defined scheduling hours.
* Attendee availability. Fixed an issue where attendee availability wasn’t always displaying for the entire timeframe being viewed on the timeline.
* Editing recurring exception events. Added a fix to prevent attempting to apply a change to all events in a recurrence when making an edit to a one-off modified instance of a series.
* Recurring tasks marked as free. Fixed an issue where recurring tasks couldn’t be toggled to not be marked as free.
* Textfield glitches on Monterey. Fixed an issue where typing in the add description and add location textfields on the event creation/editing side panel would visually glitch for Monterey users.
* Crash fixes. Added a few additional fixes for crashes related to accessing the real-time database.
* Missing Outlook data. Fixed an issue where Outlook data could fail to parse and therefore vanish from the timeline when Skype conference location URLs were included.
* Ideal time lookups. Fixed an issue when toggling between different time frame selections during event creation where ‘Today’ wasn’t being considered when switching from ‘Next week’
* Autoscheduling around Calendar Shield. Fixed an issue where the autoscheduling service would fail to run correctly on days where the user has protected time with Calendar Shield.
* Recurring event visualization. Fixed a few issues around how WIP recurring events render on the timeline to streamline the flow from WIP to saved events.
* Custom scheduling hours reverting to default. Fixed an edge case where user defined custom scheduling hours reset to Mayday defaults.
* Recurring events with additional attendees. Fixed an issue where guests invited to single instances of a recurring event would not receive an email inviting them to confirm RSVP.
* Persistent duration for WIP events. Fixed an issue where the user defined duration could reset to the default duration when the date and time was changed by clicking to a new location on the timeline.
* Visualization of edited recurring events. Fixed an issue where a ghost of the recurring event being edited would display on the timeline as you make edits that don’t impact date/time.
Mayday: The Calendar Assistant version 4.5.0
Updated At: 2023-09-07
Changes: Sep 7, 2023
Version 4.5.0
New features:
* One-click Reschedule for Tasks. Quickly reschedule tasks and events without attendees to new ideal times using one-click reschedule. Either right click the event/task you’d like to move, or click the new Reschedule button on an event tile to easily restructure your day as priorities change. This functionality is limited to tasks and events without attendees today, but is coming soon to events with attendees as well.
General improvements:
* Ideal Time optimizations. Improvements to the Ideal Time engine to better account for the nuance between scheduling Tasks and scheduling Events.
* Success/failure indicators. Added new timeline indicators that pop up and display success and failure context when attempting to one-click reschedule a task.
* Tasks with long titles. Improved task list display to better support tasks with extremely long titles.
Bug fixes:
* Autoscheduling Flexible tasks. Fixed an issue where incomplete autoscheduled flexible tasks were not respecting the user-defined scheduling hour settings.
* Availability on days with Calendar Shield. Fixed an issue where days where Calendar Shield protected time is turned on were not being considered when sharing availability.
* Availability on days with all day events. Fixed an issue where certain all day events were blocking availability.
* Teams links on Scheduling Links. Fixed an issue where Microsoft Teams links were not adding to events created with Scheduling Links.
* Deleting buffer time. Fixed an issue where when deleting buffer time in Mayday wasn’t cleaning up the resulting blocked time in Gcal.
* Buffer time not following rescheduled events. Fixed an issue where original instances of buffer time in Gcal were not rescheduling when the event in Mayday reschedules.
* Synced mirrored events failing to update. Fixed an issue where the mirrored copy of a synced event in a different calendar failed to update when the parent event was rescheduled to a different day.
* Rescheduling Outlook recurring events. Fixed an issue when dragging and dropping an instance of a recurring Outlook event to reschedule could change the duration of the event.
* Unable to remove/readd certain calendar accounts. Fixed an issue where default settings were preventing the successful removal and readding of a calendar account.
* Reverting changes on recurring events. Fixed an issue where incorrectly offering the ability to apply changes to all events on a unique single instance of a recurring event could cause the change to revert.
* Expired Zoom authentication. Fixed an issue where the request to re-authenticate a Zoom account wasn’t displaying immediately in instances where Zoom revokes authorization.
* Attendee availability limits. Fixed an issue where the new availability service wasn’t displaying attendee availability for events with more than 4 attendees.
* Drag/drop in the Task list. Fixed an issue where when dragging a Task in the side panel to the bottom of a new timeframe, the task resets to the original time.
* Editing events by dragging/dropping edges. Fixed an issue where when editing the duration of an event by dragging the event tile boundary, the event would briefly render at the original duration on save.
* Task list hover states. Fixed a few issues around how task list hover states displayed.
* Ideal time logic. Fixed an issue where new events/tasks would not identify an ideal time until some preliminary properties were added.
* New task more options button. Fixed an issue where the preliminary task title wouldn’t persist when clicking the more options button.
* Suggested timeslots when no ideal time is available. Fixed an issue that would prevent fallback logic from executing when no ideal time for a new event could be found within the requested timeframe.
* Sync event button. Fixed an issue where Ventura users couldn’t click within the calendar selection checkbox when syncing an event across multiple calendars.
Mayday: The Calendar Assistant version 4.4.1
Updated At: 2023-08-25
Changes: Aug 25, 2023
Version 4.4.1
General improvements:
* Ideal Time Engine. A refactor to the AI engine that identifies Ideal Times for new events and tasks was made to account for many more new variables and significantly improve Ideal Time suggestions. This enhanced Ideal Time engine will find better times to suggest working on tasks or meeting with others based off of improved learnings from past scheduling behaviour as well as the unique attributes of what you’re trying to schedule.
* Wake and Sleep settings. A new user setting for defining wake and sleep habits was added in order to obtain a better understanding of your unique chronological rhythms for productivity. Set your wake and sleep routine under Settings > Scheduling Hours > Wake and Sleep.
* Onboarding updates. Reworked new user onboarding to streamline account creation.
* Account authorization in browser. Added new functionality to enable the authentication of a calendar account provider to take place within a browser, if required.
* Edit event/task previews. Added a new timeline visualization to display an event/task original location on the timeline while that event/task is being edited to move to a new time.
* Right click options on task list. Added new right click options for tasks in the task list side panel in order to quickly edit and make modifications.
Bug fixes:
* Crash fixes. Fixed a few scenarios that were resulting in crashes on loading the timeline.
* Server timeouts. Fixed an intermittent issue and added additional resiliency to prevent timeouts (which resulted in failed edits to events among other data inconsistencies)
* Duplicate synced events. Fixed an issue that could cause mirrored versions of synced events to appear in duplicate.
* Duplicate recurring events. Fixed a race condition that would sometime result in duplicate instances of recurring events after the organizer makes an edit to only this event.
* Mirrored events. Fixed an issue where newly synced events were not displaying as private for the mirrored copy.
* Attendee availability. Fixed an issue where attendee availability wouldn’t always load when adding guests to a new or existing event.
* Event display on timezone change. Fixed an issue where app required restart to display events at system timezone when timezone is changed.
* Rescheduling flexible tasks. Fixed an issue that prevented flexible tasks from being rescheduled to one time and then rescheduled again to their original time.
* Task lis ordering. Fixed an issue where the task list in the side panel was out of order compared to the sequence of tasks in the timeline.
* Task list re-ordering. Fixed an issue where the placement indicators were incorrect when dragging tasks across containers in the task side panel
* Default Task settings. Fixed an issue where new user accounts were not defaulting Task settings to set Mark as Flexible as on.
* Synced tasks. Fixed a task tile visualization issue that wasn’t displaying synced tasks as being synced under task details.
* Smart Tag suggestions for Outlook calendars. Fixed a visualization issue where suggested Smart Tags for new Outlook calendars could display in white and be difficult to see.
* Outlook account refresh. Fixed an issue to ensure calendar list refreshes as soon as a new Outlook account is added.
* Tasks in the Menu Bar. Fixed an issue where completed tasks were not filtering out of the up next view in the Menu Bar.
Mayday: The Calendar Assistant version 4.4.0
Updated At: 2023-08-13
Changes: Aug 13, 2023
Version 4.4.0
New features:
* AI-scheduled Flexible Tasks. Create flexible tasks and let Mayday help you make sure you get them done. Flexible tasks are indicated with a shuffle icon on the timeline and will currently reschedule automatically to new ideal times under two different scenarios:
* Auto-rescheduling based on Conflicts - As soon as another item in your timeline overlaps with a flexible Task, the existing flexible Task will reschedule to a new ideal time.
* Auto-rescheduling when Incomplete from Yesterday - Flexible and incomplete tasks from the previous day will automatically reschedule to new ideal times to make sure you have time to get things done. A setting for turning on/off auto-rescheduling of yesterday’s incomplete tasks can be managed under Settings > Task Defaults.
* Outlook Access for all. Outlook support for Mayday is now available for all beta testers. Connect as many Outlook accounts as you need alongside your existing Google calendar accounts and manage all of your calendars in one place.
General improvements:
* UI performance updates. Refactored some frontend components in the side panel to optimize the speed and responsiveness of the UI.
* Task side panel UI. Updates to the Task side panel to add a dedicated edit button, additional hover states, and improved UX around managing incomplete tasks and quick entry of new tasks.
* Time window logic. Improved the task/event creation logic around time frames, to restructure around ranges for ‘Today’, ‘This Week’, ‘Next Week’, and ‘Future’.
* Right click functionality. Right click functionality on Mac to access quick options for managing tasks and events on your timeline.
* Flexible task behaviour. Added logic to intuitively manage flexible tasks, so if you manually define the start/end time for a task, the flexible status turns off by default.
* Recurring Task management. Added new logic to assume any changes in completion state for recurring tasks are applied ‘only to this task’.
* Conference deeplinks. Updated logic so that conference links redirect to native conferencing apps when available (i.e. for Google Meet, Microsoft Teams specifically).
Bug fixes:
* Fixed an issue where Tasks in the Mark as Free state would be suggested at ideal times that conflict with other Tasks and Events.
* Fixed an issue where marking a recurring Task as complete would revert to the incomplete state.
* Fixed an issue where RSVP status changes on recurring events would revert.
* Fixed an issue where the timeline would briefly render shifted down by one day when marking off older completed tasks from more than one week in the past.
* Fixed an issue where editing tasks wouldn’t register a change to only the Smart Tag.
* Fixed an issue when creating a recurring Task where the parent Task would briefly duplicate on the timeline.
* Fixed an issue where the creation defaults for Events and Tasks were not updating correctly when toggling the creation side panel between Event and Task.
* Fixed an issue where the Zoom object on event details would intermittently appear as not accessible despite being active.
* Fixed a regression issue where Smart Tag defaults weren’t overriding event/task defaults.
* Fixed an issue where the edit task side panel wasn’t automatically closing after saving changes.
* Fixed an issue where attendee availability would sometimes hang and not complete loading while editing an event.
* Fixed an issue where Tasks were not displaying correctly in a marked as free state.
* Fixed an issue where events organized by others will appear to match user RSVP status rather than reflecting their own unique RSVP status.
* Fixed an issue where the scroll view carries off page when expanding and collapsing the advanced controls for Scheduling Links.
* Fixed an issue where tabbing and enter to navigate side panel was not flowing through all fields.
* Improved logic so that no ‘discard’ modal is displayed when no changes have been made to a task/event.
Mayday: The Calendar Assistant version 4.3.1
Updated At: 2023-06-28
Changes: Jun 28, 2023
Version 4.3.1
General improvements:
* Timeline performance. Refactored how event tiles are rendered on the timeline in order to improve snappiness of event tile interaction and overall timeline performance.
* Removed global shortcuts. Removed the global shortcuts that were interfering with other Mac app system level shortcuts.
Bug fixes:
* Event/Task defaults. Fixed an issue where event and task level defaults wouldn’t update correctly when toggling a new event between the event and task state.
* Default write-to calendars. Fixed an issue where the default write-to calendar could be set to a read-only calendar, and event creation flow.
* Timezone changing logic. Fixed an issue where the app wouldn’t always immediately update to the new system timezone when travelling.
* Events created in alternative timezones. Fixed an issue where events that were created while travelling in a different timezone display at the prior timezone instead of the system timezone when changed back to original local time.
* Buffer time and synced events for recurring events. Fixed an issue where adding buffer time or syncing events across calendars that were modified instances of recurring events would fail.
* Duplicate buffer time events. Fixed an issue that could cause buffer time blocks to duplicate in Gcal for recurring instances.
* Recurring event instance deletion. Fixed an issue that could block user from deleting single instances of recurring events.
* Editing events to add attendees. Fixed an issue that would prevent new attendees on existing events from receiving calendar invites.
* Conference links opening in Apple Maps. Fixed an edge case scenario that would result in certain conferencing links trying to open up in Apple Maps.
* Smart Tag selection on iOS. Fixed an issue where the keyboard would always open by default on iOS when changing the Smart Tag on an event.
* Scheduling link creation on iOS. Fixed an issue where attempts to modify scheduling link fields on iOS would close containers in progress.
* Organizer RSVP status. Fixed an issue where Gcal organizer RSVP status wouldn’t update to alternative RSVP status beyond ‘going’.
* Declined event RSVP and mark as free status. Fixed an issue where when declining RSVP to a Gcal event as the organizer, the event status was being changed to ‘mark as free’
* UI overlap for event detail containers. Fixed an issue where the buffer time container on event details could overlap with other event detail text.
* All day event click area. Fixed an issue where the click area for all day events extended beyond all day event row.
* Phantom Zoom objects. Fixed a scenario where a phantom Zoom conference object could appear to attempt to add to an event after adding a physical location.
* Task completion UI. Fixed an issue where the task list and task tile were not always immediately in sync when marking a task as complete.
* Synced events pending RSVP. Fixed an issue where pending RSVP events that are expected to sync to another calendar don’t render the sync to stripe.
Mayday: The Calendar Assistant version 4.3.0
Updated At: 2023-06-10
Changes: Jun 10, 2023
Version 4.3.0
New features:
* Tasks for Mayday. Task management in Mayday is here. With the new Task side panel, you can quickly schedule one off or recurring tasks within different intervals. When you add a new Task, Mayday will schedule it in your calendar at an ideal time to help you make space for the things that matter.
* Mark as Private. Any Event or Task can now be Marked as Private. This means that anyone who has access to view your calendar will see that you’re unavailable at the times where you have private events/tasks, but they won’t see any of the defining details (event title, attendees, description, location).
* Default settings for Tasks and Events. New settings pages give you the ability to customize the defaults that Mayday applies when you create a new event or task - these include defaults for write-to calendar, Smart Tag, duration, conferencing, mark as free, and mark as private.
General improvements:
* Ideal Times. Changes to the machine learning model for how Mayday identifies ideal times have been made that will enable more refined training in the future based on distinctions between events and tasks.
* Event/Task side panel. The side panel when creating new tasks and events in Mayday has been refactored to improve the UI. A new toggle at the top has been added to transition between creating an event and creating a task. In addition, some new attributes were added which include: scheduling based on duration, ideal time identification based on timeframes (today, tomorrow, this week, future).
* Task shortcuts. New shortcuts were added for creating tasks quickly in Mayday. ⌘⇧N to open the New Task side panel, while just ⌘N opens the New Event side panel. Or simply hold shift while you click and drag on the timeline to create a new task manually.
* Event/Task Importance. Changes to importance now let you mark events/tasks on a 4-point scale of importance (low to very high) as a way to inform the ideal time selection engine.
* Sync events mirroring. Changes to how you can sync events across different calendars now ensure synced copies of events are always marked as private in the synced calendar by default.
* Microsoft Teams conferencing support. Added functionality to support Microsoft Teams as conference objects from Outlook events.
Bug fixes:
* Crash fixes. Multiple optimizations to threading were added in order to reduce crash risks.
* Notifications. Fixed an issue that prevented event starting soon notifications from being delivered to Mac and iOS.
* Calendar Shield Autoprotect. Fixed an issue where autoprotect wouldn’t turn on Calendar Shield when a given day’s meeting density exceeded the user’s defined meeting threshold.
* Scheduling Link duplicate slots. Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause Scheduling Links to offer duplicate slots to guests.
* Editing Scheduling Links. Fixed an issue where changes made to existing Scheduling Links weren’t updating.
* Recurring event fixes. Fixed multiple issues that were creating UI oddities when making one-off edits to events from a recurring series.
* Smart Tag color changes. Fixed an issue that prevented making changes to Smart Tag colors.
* Click and drag to reschedule. Fixed an issue where click and drag on the timeline wouldn’t reschedule an event that was actively being edited.
* Calendar Shield rendering. Fixed an issue where blocks of protected time from Calendar Shield weren’t rendering properly after app was quit and relaunched.
* Sync to event rendering. Fixed an issue where the in-progress event tile on the timeline wasn’t updating to reflect a sync to status during event editing.
* Natural language queries. Fixed an issue that would cause the ideal time suggestion of a natural language query from selecting a specifically requested date.
* Missing calendars. Fixed an issue where the app would need to be quit/restarted in order to see available calendars after connecting a new calendar provider account via settings.
