What's New

WorkRunner now keeps your Today plan stable throughout the day. Refreshing the page or opening WorkRunner on another device will no longer silently pull extra No-date tasks into Today when you finish or reschedule something. Dated work can still enter Today when it becomes relevant, and a new Replan today option lets you deliberately create a fresh plan when you need one.

Tasks can now use four clearer date meanings: No date, Target, Commitment and Deadline. WorkRunner uses those meanings to decide when work enters Today while keeping your existing distance-based priorities, and task cards now show when work is a Commitment or Deadline plus how many times it has been rescheduled.

See what realistically fits before your working day ends. Today now shows an end-of-day line separating the work WorkRunner expects to fit from tasks that are likely to spill beyond your planned day.

Race journey progress is now protected when historical meetings are upgraded to durable distance tracking. Completed meeting progress will no longer disappear when WorkRunner refreshes how past distance is stored.

Added pairwise project prioritisation, making it easier to decide which active projects matter most and use that order to guide WorkRunner’s recommendations.

Improved the Race map so the UK stays centred and easier to see at a glance, with more map space and progress details moved into a compact side panel on larger screens.

Improved Race scheduling so recurring tasks no longer appear before a meeting when there isn't enough time to complete them.

Clearer journey progress on the Race map: your completed route is now shown in green, the route ahead remains blue, and a simple dot marks your current progress.

Project priorities now guide Race automatically. Your project, section and task order now shapes project-task distance and recommendations, Project screens show that distance, and task dates control when work appears in Race rather than changing its priority. Manual drag ordering has been removed from Race so priority stays upstream in Projects.

WorkRunner now offers Monthly, Yearly and WorkRunner Advisory plans. Lifetime is no longer available to new customers, while existing Lifetime customers keep their access.

Added Task Availability, allowing tasks to be available Now, After a time, or at End of day (17:30). Deferred tasks remain visible but do not compete for Current Focus until they become actionable.

Improved recurring task reliability across devices, preventing deleted or rescheduled recurring occurrences from reappearing and improving same-day recurring task creation.

Improved Morning Plan validation so energy levels are restricted to whole numbers from 1 to 10.

Fixed project assignments in Reports so the selected project remains correct after refreshing the page.

Fixed the daily streak display so an in-progress day no longer incorrectly makes an established streak appear to have been lost.

Added retrospective project assignment in Reports, allowing completed tasks and meetings to be assigned to the correct project afterwards.

Improved Race timer reliability, including correct break timing after a computer sleeps and keeping the Pause control available after adding a task.

Made the Current Task panel more compact so the main Race controls use screen space more efficiently.

Added project tagging for meetings so meetings can be assigned to projects and their time included in project Reports.

Added Reschedule and Delete controls directly to Current Task, making it easier to deal with work that should no longer be done now.

Improved the visual hierarchy of Current Task in Race, making the task WorkRunner wants you to focus on clearer.

Improved the first-use Race experience with a clearer empty state that helps new users add their first task and get started.

Fixed project completion information in Reports so completed project work is counted and displayed correctly.

Fixed the Completed Tasks page so completed work loads and displays correctly.

Fixed password change regressions so the password change flow and interface behave reliably.

Improved project task filtering and project ordering, fixing problems that could prevent reordered project tasks from saving reliably.

Fixed project creation on legacy database schemas where automatic review tasks need to be linked through the project-goals bridge, preventing the review-task request from failing after the project is created.

Fixed project creation so the automatic linked review task uses the correct task/project link column and the Projects page refreshes even if the secondary review-task request fails.

Improved internal payment and database test safety so signup/payment checks are staging-first, refuse live Stripe settings, and require explicit confirmation before touching production-like test data.

Added request IDs across the PHP API so browser errors can be matched to backend logs during beta support.

Fixed Today Race ordering so the highest-distance normal task is selected first unless it cannot fit before a time-bound item. Morning Routine still stays first until completed.

Improved the Calendar past-day view so completed days now show planned time and actual time side by side, making it easier to compare what was scheduled with what really happened.

Renamed Future Workload to Calendar and added completed personal and project tasks into the same month view, so past work and upcoming work can be reviewed from one place.

Fixed the Future Workload page after the staged API response migration by making it understand both the new standard JSON envelope and older endpoint response shapes.

Added central PHP API response helpers and started migrating auth plus core personal-task writes toward a predictable JSON response shape, while keeping older frontend callers working during the staged rollout.

Fixed the paid signup gate so WorkRunner accounts are only created after Stripe confirms payment. Abandoned checkout sessions now remain pending and cannot be used to log in.

Fixed signup recovery so users who reach Stripe, go back before paying, and then retry the same fresh account can continue to Stripe Checkout instead of getting stuck because the email already exists.

Added a small pre-deployment PHP API smoke test covering CSRF, login, session cookies, task creation, task completion, and logout.

Centralised PHP CORS handling so auth, tasks, meetings, settings, payments, reports, and timer endpoints use one consistent origin allowlist and preflight policy.

Tidied the authentication architecture so login, logout, registration, session checks, CSRF handling, password changes, payment-login, and remember-me behaviour use one canonical backend path. Older duplicate auth URLs now delegate to the canonical implementation temporarily for backwards compatibility.

Updated the Race page meeting modal so meetings can be scheduled for a future date. Leaving the date blank still adds the meeting for today.

Added a live meeting timer inside the meeting notes modal, so the countdown stays visible while you capture preparation notes and actions during a running meeting.

Added a volume slider for task progress nudges, so users who work with music or headphones can make the chimes easier to hear.

Fixed task progress nudges by connecting the Race page timer to the audio nudge module and adding a Settings test-sound button to make browser audio checks easier.

Added optional task progress nudges. Longer active tasks can now play gentle chimes at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of planned time, with occasional overtime reminders. Meetings are excluded automatically, and the setting can be turned on or off from Settings.

Fixed an intermittent Race page ordering issue where an overdue fixed-time task could create a fake gap and appear above a meeting that was already due. Meetings now stay at the top when their scheduled time arrives and no task timer is running.

Fixed a Race page timer-control issue where the Pause button could disappear after a started task was re-selected or refreshed, especially around recurring-task updates.

Added an overdue-task step to the Race page Morning Checklist, with a direct button to review, reschedule, or delete overdue tasks before starting the day.

Fixed the Future Workload calendar so materialized recurring tasks are not double-counted alongside their projected recurring placeholders. The real dated task now wins, so the selected-day list and scheduled-hours total stay accurate.

Improved the Future Workload calendar so dated personal tasks and project tasks can be rescheduled or deleted directly from the selected-day list, with the day's scheduled hours and task count updating immediately.

Recurring tasks can now be edited properly from the Recurring Tasks page, including title, notes, duration, anchor date, planned time, project link, urgency, importance, and cadence, instead of only changing the repeat rule.

Fixed working day handling so your saved working days are read correctly on the Settings page, recurring tasks stop appearing on non-working days, and streak calculations now ignore non-working days instead of breaking across them.

Fixed the Completed page so finished meetings use real completion dates, attended meetings are included more reliably, and completed tasks, meetings, and review tasks stay together in one correctly ordered list.

Improved host and redirect consistency so WorkRunner is less likely to bounce between workrunner.ai and www.workrunner.ai during page loads and payment or API flows.

Strengthened the Completed page again so finished personal tasks and meetings can still load when the dedicated completed endpoints return empty results and WorkRunner has to fall back to broader API responses.

Fixed the Completed page so finished tasks, project tasks, and meetings load more reliably even if one data source fails or your database schema differs slightly.

Meeting notes on the Reports page now let you edit and save live meeting notes while keeping preparation and post-meeting evaluation notes read-only.

Added a Notes button to meetings on the Reports page so you can quickly open preparation answers, live meeting notes, and post-meeting evaluation notes.

Improved Race ordering so meetings beat meeting prep, meeting prep beats fixed-time tasks, and unmatched prep tasks keep their priority instead of falling back into the flexible queue.

Fixed project review tasks so they follow the normal Race ordering rules instead of being forced into a fixed start time.

Improved archived project handling across the app.

Improved Race page task loading and refresh behaviour.

Added countdown timer support to meeting prep tasks.

Improved task layout consistency between the Dashboard and Race pages.

Improved login reliability, session handling, and HTTPS support for a more stable sign-in experience.

Separated the Dashboard and Race pages to create a clearer workflow between planning and focus mode.

Updated the WorkRunner home page with an improved layout and design.

Fixed project notes functionality.

WorkRunner.ai launched as a Web/Desktop app.

Added automatic new-day refreshing so Race updates itself correctly as one working day becomes the next.

Expanded Daily Reports to include both Morning Plan reflections and the End of Day Journal, connecting planning, execution and reflection in one daily record.

Improved the daily streak system so consistent completion across working days could be tracked more reliably.

Added the Morning Plan as the first task of the day, creating a deliberate start-of-day routine before normal work begins.

Added the End of Day Journal as the final task of the working day, creating a structured way to reflect before finishing.

Turned the Morning Plan into a checklist and added dedicated pre-meeting preparation forms based on the type of meeting.

Added scheduled times to tasks, allowing time-specific work to sit correctly alongside other priorities.

Made task timing more reliable by synchronising the task countdown with the server and added remaining-task counts to project sections.

Improved Reports with visual breakdowns of tasks, meetings and project work.

Expanded Reports with How you spent your time, making it easier to understand where the working day actually went.

Added a focus question before tasks to encourage a clearer intention before starting work.

Added the daily streak system, rewarding consistent use and progress across consecutive working days.

Expanded post-task and post-meeting reflection so WorkRunner could capture how work actually went, not simply whether it was completed.

Added daily target times for different types of work, helping users balance how their working day is spent.

Added meeting preparation time so important preparation work could be included alongside the meeting itself.

Expanded meeting management with different meeting types, preparation questions and meeting evaluation data.

Added user-defined task durations so WorkRunner could use the user's own estimate when planning work.

Added reflection and preparation directly into Race, including morning reflection and questions before starting work.

Added a blocked-task workflow so work that cannot currently progress can be handled without disrupting the rest of the day.

Added Reports, providing a dedicated place to review completed work and productivity information.

Added support for parked and out-of-scope project tasks and clearer highlighting of the highest-priority tasks.

Added pairwise prioritisation for project tasks, helping users determine the most important next piece of project work.

Improved task completion with a full-screen Street View celebration and clearer separation of completed and incomplete project tasks.

Added Load to Today for project tasks, making it easier to bring project work into the day's active workload.

Added controls for recurring tasks, including pause, edit, delete and conversion back to a one-off task.

Added recurring tasks, allowing regular work to be scheduled automatically instead of recreated manually.

Added the Stripe payment experience and developed the signup-to-payment journey in preparation for eventually offering WorkRunner commercially.

Expanded planning beyond Today with week and month views of upcoming work.

Added project selection when creating tasks, making it easier to connect everyday work with larger projects.

Added dedicated views for Future, Completed and Overdue work, together with task rescheduling.

Unified tasks and meetings in Race so WorkRunner could manage both within a single ordered daily workflow.

Added drag-and-drop task ordering in Race so the day's priorities could be rearranged directly.

Added project tasks and integrated tasks due today into the main daily task list.

Added meetings and a live clock to the daily workflow, beginning the integration of scheduled commitments with tasks.

Connected today's task list to Race and added the total time required for the day's work.

Introduced the early Race experience, using a map and Street View to visualise progress when starting and completing tasks.

Expanded task capture with persistent tasks and planned dates, creating the foundations of WorkRunner's daily task system.

Added the first task creation interface so users could begin capturing work inside WorkRunner.

Added working user registration and login, allowing WorkRunner to begin supporting individual user accounts.

Built the first WorkRunner prototype, including the initial home screen and foundations for task management.