The microtasks inside the block
Break a task down into microtasks inside the block you already planned: an ordered checklist on Reassign's 24-hour dial, written by hand or drafted with AI.
A block says when something happens. Now it can carry what getting it done takes: give any block a checklist of microtasks and tick them off right where the time already is. It’s a breakdown of one block, not another list to keep, and writing and ticking are free. When writing the list is the hard part, the AI drafts it for you (Pro). Either way the microtasks follow the block: onto the dial label, into focus mode, through your reflection, and into the morning brief.
Microtasks, inside the block (free): open any block on the dial and break it into an ordered checklist. “Write intro, review PR, reply emails,” each one a line you tick as you go, with a quiet done-of-total count on the block’s label so a glance tells you how far in you are. On a block that’s already on your day each one saves the moment you commit it, so there’s no Save to remember. Every kind of block qualifies: solid, non-blocking, reference, or parked in your Backlog, so you can break something down before it even has a time. It’s deliberately a breakdown of the one block, not a task manager: no due dates, no separate list. Why the microtasks live in the block →
Break it down for me, when writing the list is the hard part (Pro): in focus mode a block with no list offers “Break this down,” and one tap gets you one. From the palette, type /microtasks, pick the block, and you get a moment to say what you want out of it (“just the writing bits,” “I only have an hour”) before anything is drafted, or send it empty and let the block speak for itself. Either way the list is sized to the block’s length and focus rhythm, and a block too vague to guess at gets one clarifying question instead of an invention. Nothing lands until you accept it, the palette batch sits behind a single undo, and parked blocks work too.
Tick one straight from the dial: the desktop label now lists the next few microtasks still open, each with its own box, so you can mark one done without opening anything. On your phone the day sheet’s “now” peek gives you the one you’re on, tickable in place.
Shared microtasks, ticked off day by day: put a checklist on a repeating block and every occurrence carries the same microtasks, while the ticks stay on the day you make them, so Monday’s progress never bleeds into Tuesday. Changing the list itself asks whether you mean this day only or every occurrence; ticking never asks.
The checklist follows you into focus mode (Pro): enter focus on a working block and its microtasks sit beside the turning dial, so you work down the list as the arc counts the block down, adding one there if the work turns up something you hadn’t planned for. On a phone it shows one at a time over a progress rail, swipeable, carrying you to the next still open as you tick. Nothing is counted for you, and finishing the last one sets off no streak, no nudge, no confetti. How focus mode works →
What you didn’t get to, handled honestly: reflect on a day and each block’s microtasks are there in the state you left them, with one you finished but never tapped still tappable until the day locks. On a one-off block, send just the unfinished ones to your Backlog in a tap (Pro), parked as “what’s left,” with an undo. Insights adds a Microtask follow-through reading by area, and the morning email lists what’s still open under your next block.
Claude keeps the list too (Pro): over MCP it can read a block’s microtasks and how many are done, rewrite or reorder them, and tick a microtask off by name, saying whether it means one day or the whole series so it can never quietly rewrite every occurrence. It can put microtasks on a parked block too. See the tools →
The mobile command palette, rebuilt around the keyboard: on your phone the ⌘K sheet now pins its field to the thumb zone, with a send button right in it when you’re dumping or replying to a plan, and sizes itself to the visible band above the keyboard instead of hiding behind it. Rounded top corners, fewer taps, no more chasing a field up the screen.
Warmer email through your trial week: the no-card trial now writes a few short, honest notes across the week (what you’ve actually built, one Pro lever worth a look, a clear word the day it ends), each opening on an illustration in the same ink-and-warm-paper style as the site, signed off with a real photo of Leo. The daily and weekly briefs keep showing your own dial, and now name the thing in the subject (your first block, your top area) instead of a flat label.
