This is a new feature that can show a short celebration animation when you: complete all the task in your task list, complete the daily planning ritual, and/or complete your daily shutdown!

You can configure these in your Settings > Display section: https://app.sunsama.com/settings/account#display

We have a new internal system for logging and tracking product changelog entries, so the date at the top of each changelog here will refer to product updates during made the week ending in that date, whereas previously the date referred to the date I posted the changelog.

For example, this particular changelog entry contains updates to the app made during the week ending January 16.

There is now a dedicated page for organizing the tasks in your backlog.

The new backlog page is our first time deviating from the kanban card style view. We think that a list view is better than a card view when you've got a ton of tasks to scroll through.

You can still view the backlog in the more compact card view in the right panel, but when you want to do some proper backlog grooming, or brain dumping, the dedicated backlog view should feel much roomier.

The new backlog is structured into time buckets:

This structure gives a flexible but systematic way to differentiate which tasks in your backlog are worth prioritizing sooner rather than later.

You can create folders in your backlog if you've got too many to keep in a single list. You can have folders for projects, life areas, or whatever categories you like to group your backlogged tasks in.

Folders are just for the backlog. Once a task gets scheduled to a particular day, the folder designation will be hidden.

You can enable the Backlog 2.0 beta from your settings page.

Don't let the beta tag scare you - the new backlog should feel like it has all the fundamentals working. There are still some missing pieces that tie the backlog gracefully into the rest of the app (e.g. the planning rituals) that merit this still be treated as beta.

We'd love your feedback once you give it a try.

When you turn a Slack message into a task you'll now be able to set:

Sunsama is also now smart about pre-filling an actionable title name (based on message content) and pre-filling the time estimate and channel.

Hi everyone, I've been seeing more messages lately asking what's going on with Sunsama and why we haven't updated this changelog in a few months. The short answer is that we're still hard at work and close to shipping some exciting updates, and simply haven't been very vocal here in the changelog.

This past summer our small team of engineers all fell deep into working on respective big projects, and few of us took holidays and parental leave. It meant there weren't as many smaller improvements/features/fixes to report on and publish every week, and we were also stretched a bit thin. In other words, everyone was heads down on long-term projects with little public facing results to show week over week. As a result, I made the decision to pause the weekly newsletter which has since resumed (where we often announce big and small updates) and also to stop posting this weekly changelog.

But rest assured that we've been working hard on the projects we announced in early 2025, and all of those are finished or very close to finished. In the next few weeks, we'll send out emails about each big feature that's rolling out, but in summary we have or are close to rolling out:

We're back at full strength these days, and we're going to be better about updating you all here in this changelog, in our email newsletters, and in our Slack community about what we're working on more regularly! It was just sort of a unique stretch for a few months where there wasn't much to "announce" except that we were working on ongoing projects, and I apologize for the silence these last few months.

If you want to chat further or want more specific details about anything, just reach out in support.

-Alex

If you've enabled task projections, you'll notice that your recurring tasks with an approximate start time are now automatically visualized at this time on your calendar.

This is made possible via a new recurring task setting called rigid scheduling.

By default, all recurring tasks with an estimated start time will have rigid scheduling enabled. You can adjust the default setting for all recurring tasks from your timeboxing settings page:

You can also adjust it on a per task series basis by editing the start time:

For a more in-depth guide, watch the walkthrough: