Before this update, each note had to be part of a task or a goal. Now, you can create standalone notes on our new Notes page. Here are a few ideas to get you started: gather information for an ongoing project with no fixed endpoint, keep a list of songs you’ve learned, or track the books you’ve read. You can link existing tasks and goals to a note, just as you would with any other note.
Notes page
Use the new library to create and store notes within nested folders.
New goal card
When you hover over a pinned goal in the sidebar, Kona now shows the progress made over the last 7 days and the next few subtasks.
Subtask order and indentation
Kona now displays subtasks in the sidebar with the correct ordering and indentation level.
In this release, I decided to take a break from new features and focus on improving the overall experience of using the app. Like many other people, I like it when the app is pleasant to use and don’t like it when developers don’t pay enough attention to details. Unfortunately, you could say this about Kona if you attentive enough. I have been focusing on new features for too long, but now that Kona is finally closer than ever to my final vision, I can concentrate on polishing the app.
It’s a little bit painful to admit your mistakes, but let’s compare the previous version of Kona with the new one.
On the left side, you can see that the blocks were not aligned properly. That was a result of bad layout design on my part. In this release, I rebuilt it from scratch and eliminated such differences — now all the blocks are utilizing the global layout:
The left sidebar has the same position from the top as the right sidebar with the calendar.
The rebuilding of the layout allowed to fix another small issue:
When you switch from Projects to Goals, it used to repaint the side calendar and reset its position. Not a big deal, but still a bad user experience. Now it changes only the middle part:
The dark mode has received a lot of small fixes too. Let’s start with the notes:
The note body didn’t suppose to have a different background! It irritated me for months and it’s finally fixed. Sorry that it took so long:
As you can see, the Home page design has been changed too. The drag handler is now inside the widget, so it doesn’t leave a weird empty space on the left. The navigation buttons (previous period, current, and next) have been moved to the center — this way they do not jump when you change from May to October, for example. «Add widget» button is now sits at the bottom, it used to eat a few pixels from the top.
Speaking of the dark theme, you can now switch to it right from the main menu:
Here you can also open an instruction on setting up an MCP connection with you favorite AI-agent.
We added a filter input to the sidebar to make it easier to find an existing task or project:
I’m pretty sure that there are some paper cuts left, but much fewer than before and I will fix them eventually too. Stay tuned!
The Kona MCP server is finally here! You can now connect your favorite AI tools
directly to Kona, so they can read and write data for you. For example,
you can import tasks from other connected tools or ask AI to add more details
to your goal.
Instructions for adding the MCP server to your agent can be found here.
Statistics is so important if you want to understand how productive you really are.
I don’t think we will ever find a perfect way to measure productivity, but we can certainly try.
On the brand-new statistics page, we made a lot of adjustments to make this task a little easier.
First of all, now you can see your stats for the last 7 days instead of the current week.
Before this change, it was difficult to tell how your week was different from the previous one until Sunday.
Now, it takes just one glance at the widgets (more on them later).
Secondly, we added filters, so you can cut the noise from the graph.
For example, if you have a project for your leisure time and you want to know how much time you’ve spent on everything except this, you can toggle the project off.
We’ve added 4 widgets for quick stats:
Focus time. It shows amount of time you’ve spent on the selected projects during the selected period.
I believe it is most important metric.
Tasks done. I don’t like this metric, because it’s almost impossible to get the full picture from this number, but sometimes it helps to know it.
Average task life time. Our new metric will help you to understand if you create more tasks that you complete.
If this number is high, I would advise to take a step back and focus on the backlog.
Current streak. If you use our regular daily notes as a container for your tasks, this will help you know how many days in a row you’ve been completing 100% of your planned tasks.
Our next chart shows how your time is split between different projects.
There you can see if some part of your life is falling behind and needs more attention.
And finally we have rebuilt the Year overview from scratch.
The goal is to show the ups and downs during your last 52 weeks.
The full statistics page is available for our subscribers, but you can use the app for free with some limitations.
In this release we decided to refresh the task creation popup. It now allows you to
change available options, so you can hide anything you never or rarely use. We also
updated the date time picker – now you can select a different time zone for any task or event.
But that’s not all! If you want to create a task and add it to a new recurring note right away,
you can do this by selecting a recurring note from the dropdown.
Adding a subtask to an existing task has now become a little bit easier.
Select a subtask from the dropdown on the right side of the creation popup and then select a parent task.
If you’re using our desktop app, you can now open the task creation popup from anywhere by pressing Cmd + Shift + C
(by default, can be changed in the settings).
Last but not least, we have fixed a lot of small and medium bugs.
