IndieGent 2.6.0

IndieGent 2.6.0

Lazy Tasks is now IndieGent. New name, new mark, new look, and a first-class dark mode — plus an Inbox that brings work to you, project summaries that write themselves, and a Garden that finally explains what a day was.

Nothing moved on your Mac. Your projects, sessions, schedules, Tank's memory, your licence and every permission you've granted all carry over: under the hood the bundle identifier and the Application Support folder deliberately keep their old names, so this update is a rename you read rather than something you redo.

The app has a new name (#108)

Everywhere a name shows up — the Dock, the menu bar, the About and Quit items, the window title, onboarding, Settings and the session briefs your agents read — now says IndieGent.

…and a new face (#109)

The Dock, Cmd-Tab and the About window show the IndieGent mark: near-black on the brand's accent yellow, drawn to Apple's icon grid so it sits right alongside everything else in your Dock and still reads at the smallest sizes. The menu bar carries the mark too, monochrome like every other status icon, with a small pip when a session needs you. Inside the app, the old broadcast badge is gone — onboarding opens on the full IndieGent lockup, and the sidebar and welcome-back screen use the mark itself.

…and IndieGent's look, all the way through (#110)

The rebrand reaches the pixels. The app is white where the page is, warm beige where the surfaces are — cards, panels and the project sidebar — with near-black text and one accent, IndieGent yellow, spent only on the thing you're meant to click: the Start session button, the live-session dots, the pill that says an agent is running.

It reads in IndieGent's own type, too. Plus Jakarta Sans carries the headings and Inter carries everything else; both ship inside the app, so they look the same on every Mac whether or not you have them installed. Branch names, timers and paths stay monospaced, where they belong.

And the app finally follows your Mac's appearance. Switch to Dark Mode and IndieGent goes with you — every colour has a dark counterpart rather than the app pinning itself to light.

The name reaches everything the app sends out (#117)

The rebrand now follows the app past its own window. The pull requests your sessions open are signed by IndieGent, background operator runs introduce themselves as IndieGent, the licence email you get after buying says IndieGent, and the download itself arrives as IndieGent-2.6.0.dmg — the first build where nothing you receive still says Lazy Tasks.

Work now comes to you: the Inbox (#114)

IndieGent has always been where you send work out. It's now also where you find out about it coming in. A new Inbox at the top of the sidebar shows what happened on your projects — an issue assigned to you, someone @mentioning you, a review someone's waiting on — with an unread count on the bell so you can see it without going looking.

Each row says what happened, where, and (where GitHub tells us) who did it. Click it to open the thread on GitHub; for issues, there's a Start session button right there, so going from "someone assigned me this" to an agent working on it is one click. New events show up within a couple of minutes.

It stays short on purpose. Only the three things that name you personally appear by default, anything you did yourself never counts, and your first run arrives calm rather than with a backlog of unread. If you do want everything a repo gets up to — new issues, replies on threads you follow — right-click it in the sidebar and turn on "Watch all activity".

Sidebar counts stop counting other people's work (#115)

The number beside a project used to be every open issue in the repo, which made a collaborator's workload look like yours. It now counts what you can actually pick up: issues assigned to you, plus issues nobody has claimed. Anything already assigned to a teammate sits beside it as a plain, unboxed number, so you can still see it's there without it reading as a todo. A project whose issues all belong to other people no longer shows a badge at all. Home's summary line and Tank both follow the same rule — Tank's snapshot now carries the actionable count alongside the total, so it recommends work that's genuinely yours.

Every project can say what it is (#118)

A project's one-line summary came straight from its GitHub description, and most repos don't have one — so most projects said nothing about themselves, including in the snapshot your agents triage from.

You can now write that line yourself: hover the summary under a project's name and edit it. And you usually won't have to write it — IndieGent reads the repo's README and drafts a one-liner for you, which you take with a click, tweak first if you like, or ignore. Repos you add from now on offer their draft as they arrive; the ones already sitting blank are gathered on Home under "projects with no summary", where "Draft them all" does the lot. Accept one and it's yours; "Use it & set on GitHub" writes it as the repo's description too — only ever when you ask, never from a background run. Descriptions written on GitHub now reach the app on their own as well.

The Garden tells you what a day actually was (#125, #107)

The chart on the home screen looked good and said nothing: a bar was a height, and there was no way to find out what it was a height of.

Now run the cursor along it. Each day lights up as you reach it and tells you what happened — how many sessions, how many issues you picked up, how many PRs shipped, how long agents were actually working, and which repos. A quiet day answers too, with the date and "Nothing that day", instead of being a gap you can't click on. It works the same on the weekly grid once your garden outgrows the daily bars. The card also shares its exact left and right edges with the Field Notes rows below it at every window size, so Home no longer reads ragged.

Suggested clears itself as you work it (#119, #120)

Confirming a suggestion used to leave the done card sitting in the queue, so a tab whose whole point is "things waiting on you" slowly filled with things that weren't. The confirmation is now a moment rather than a resident: the card turns yellow, ticks, and tells you the issue number it was filed as — with an Open button straight to it on GitHub — then slides out of the list a few seconds later.

And clearing the queue lands you somewhere designed instead of on a bare line of text: "All clear", a quiet dial that pulses while something is armed to look, and the facts you'd otherwise go hunting for — when the next run fires ("Nightly review runs tonight 9pm"), when suggestions last arrived, and a Run now button if you don't feel like waiting for tonight. A failed run says so in orange instead of letting a broken night look like a quiet one.

Open issues read oldest first (#127)

A project's open issues arrived in whatever order GitHub handed them over — newest first, which meant the backlog you'd been carrying longest sat at the bottom. They're now sorted by issue number, lowest at the top: your oldest open work first, the freshest ideas last, the same way every time. An issue you file while the list is on screen still appears immediately at the top, then settles into its place once GitHub gives it a number.