Minus 5

Minus 5 v1.9 — focus that grows, and a few things that were quietly broken. • Focus has no timer to pick any more. Your first session simply counts up — go as long as you like. However long you managed becomes your mark, and the next session counts down to it. Reach it and the clock keeps going, upward, into ground you've never covered. The mark only ever rises: a short day never takes it away. • Hold any thing to focus on it, or hold the ring to focus on nothing in particular. Lock your phone mid-session and you come back to the timer, not the front door. • Reminders now actually arrive. Switching on "Plan the day" or "Wrap up" registered nothing at all — the reminder was created, then never scheduled. Fixed, and worth switching them on again if you gave up on them. • The mic button is gone. It depended on an on-device speech model that many phones simply don't have, and on those phones it could only apologise. Say "Add a thing to Minus 5" to Siri, or use the keyboard's own mic key — both work everywhere, and Minus 5 no longer asks for microphone permission at all. • Recurring things are marked as habits, and they behave like habits. A missed Wednesday no longer carries into Thursday collecting age badges — it simply comes back next Wednesday. Before, a missed one would also block the next occurrence from ever appearing. • Habits sit at the top of the list, appear the same day you create them even if their time has passed, and say so when today's list is too full to fit them. Recurring now lives next to where you type, instead of in a corner where it read as a settings icon. • Rankings: a new All-time board for the ten longest streaks ever. Losing a streak costs your place on the live boards but never your record. • The ring says what it is. MINUS above the number, THINGS below — it reads "minus five things" at a glance. Your level moved to Progress, where it has a bar to sit against, and your streak to the top corner. • Your progress chart has room to show the days you did more than five. • Sending a thing to a friend is one link now, and it opens in the app. The old link arrived as plain text in Telegram, WhatsApp and Slack, which only make web links tappable — so there was nothing to tap. • The ring during focus sweeps forward instead of unwinding, and moves smoothly rather than ticking.