What’s new in Pensova

A personal note from Terry to everyone who joins

Everyone who joins the beta now gets the short note Terry sends by hand: glad to have you, here is how to reach me. It comes from his own mailbox.

Settings changes move your tasks at once

Tick or untick a calendar, save new working hours or connect your calendar, and your tasks move to fit right away instead of waiting for the next check. Pensova also looks at every connected calendar every fifteen minutes again.

A notice when email to you is not getting through

If mail from Pensova to your address comes back undeliverable, the dashboard says so and Pensova stops sending there until it is fixed, so you are not left wondering why a reminder never came.

A new launch video

The launch video now shows Pensova as it is today on a computer: a task landing on the calendar, work split across the week, a task with no time yet, a photo of a schedule and meeting notes, Google Calendar or Outlook.

Plainer wording across the site and the app

Menu paths read as sentences instead of arrows, sentences no longer break on dashes, and the help video captions follow the same rule.

Help articles: three sentences made clearer

Adding tasks says where done tasks sit, and Meeting notes explains what is kept in shorter sentences.

Help articles: two sentences in Adding tasks made clearer

Where to buy more captures, and the steps for speaking a task, are now short sentences.

Three help videos fixed

Connecting Google, Connecting Outlook and Meeting notes had a few seconds cut from the wrong place. They are re-rendered and swapped on the site and on YouTube.

The Hey Siri setup video, where you can find it

The Hey Siri, capture this article now starts with the 32 second setup clip filmed on an iPhone, with captions, and the help index marks the article as having a video.

Outlook and Microsoft 365 calendars now work

Sign in with Microsoft and Pensova plans around your Outlook calendar the way it does with Google: tasks land in free time, move when a meeting takes the hour, and a block you drag stays put. The sign-in page and the sign-up forms offer both, and nothing in the app assumes Google any more.

Connecting Outlook, in the help center

A new article covers signing in with Microsoft: the three permissions and what each is for, the verified publisher on the permission screen, what Approval required means on a work account, and how to disconnect. Every page now says Google Calendar or Outlook, the privacy policy covers Microsoft data, and a sign-in you cancel on Microsoft's screen says so in plain words instead of a code.

A clearer message when a Microsoft account has no mailbox

A work account without a mailbox has no Outlook calendar to connect, and Microsoft sends no email address for it. The sign-in page now says that in plain words instead of showing a code.

Sign in and Start free trial are in the header on a phone

On a phone the two buttons sit beside the menu, as on a computer. Pricing now opens on the yearly price with its 10% saving, and whichever billing interval you pick turns blue.

A video for connecting Outlook, and yearly first in the app

The Connecting Outlook and Microsoft 365 article now has its own video: the three permissions, the verified publisher, what Approval required means, and how to disconnect. Choosing a plan in the app now opens on yearly, with its 10% saving, as the site does.

Delete many tasks at once, and a repeating task fix

Tap Select above the task list to tick tasks one by one, or Select all in any section, then Delete. Deleting the first task of a repeating series also no longer creates extra copies: the series simply carries on from the next one.

The price survey page no longer mentions the raffle now that it has closed

If you joined after the first survey went out, it reaches you on 6 November.

Getting started steps now open the exact setting

Tap Set your working hours or Choose which calendars count and that section opens, unfolded, instead of leaving you to find it in Settings. If every calendar already counts, the calendars step is ticked off.

Settings is in the order you set things up

Working hours, calendars and fixed time come first, then your plan and the ways to add tasks. Help, feedback and sign-out are at the end.

Nothing reads like a waiting list

The header, the sign-up page and the invitation emails now say what is true: try Pensova free until 20 November, no card. The old wording asked you to get a beta link and wait for it, and nobody was ever waiting.

Home page no longer scrolls sideways on a phone

The example cards were a touch wider than the screen, so the page could be dragged sideways. It sits still now.

If your calendar didn't connect, the app now says so in plain words

A sign-in button is right there, so you can try again with Google's two calendar boxes ticked.

The whole site in plain words

Every page now describes a to-do list that blocks time for each task around your schedule, with no developer words, full sentences throughout, and the help center naming the buttons and tabs the app actually has.

The tab for tasks without a time is now called No time yet

It was called Not placed. The guide, the help center and what Claude says about a task use the same words.

Captures, Pro's 250 and credit packs

A photo or PDF of a schedule and pasted meeting notes now count as captures. Pro includes 250 a month and the Claude connection. When the month's captures are used up, 50 more cost $5 under Plan in Settings; Lite can add two packs a month.

A computer opens on the list too

Unless your sign-up answer said calendar. The switch at the top remembers your choice per browser.

Drag the divider between the list and the calendar

Half and half to start, remembered per browser; double-tap it for half again. Beside the list the calendar always shows three days from today.

The divider is easier to grab with a finger

A pill grip on the divider, like the iPad's split screen

Drag a task from the list onto the calendar

Drop it on a day and that time is booked and kept, like a block you moved. Drag a block onto the list to take it off the calendar.

The Tasks tab on a phone always opens the list

A waiting draft shows as a badge and as a link at the top of the list, instead of taking over the tab.

The site reads the way the app now works

The problem section says it plainly, every page knows about the list beside the calendar, and the replan timing reads the same everywhere.

The page from our comparison ad matches the ad

Tap the side-by-side ad and the page opens with the same headline and the same two phones, so you know you are in the right place.

A task never starts at the minute you add it

Placement begins at the next quarter-hour at least ten minutes away, unless the deadline leaves no other room.

“Put it on my calendar” on the add and edit forms

Untick it and the task stays on the list with a list-only tag; the planner leaves it alone. Tick it later and it gets a time.

A to-do list view

Calendar | List at the top of a wide screen: the list grouped by day (overdue, today, tomorrow, the week, no time yet, list only, done) with three days of calendar beside it. A phone opens on the list, with the calendar a tap away. Sign-up asks how you expect to use Pensova and starts you there.

Rows that read as a task list

A circle to tick it done, the title and when it is. Tap the title for Edit, Schedule and Delete.

List and calendar split the screen half and half

The status reads To-Do

Fixes from the first look at the list

An open row folds back with a tap and keeps its tick circle; the calendar no longer paints over the list while the layout switches.

Drafts is its own page

With a Back to tasks link, instead of the old tab strip.

Overdue reads “past the deadline”

A list-only task past its date sits there too.

A block you move in your calendar stays there

Drag one of Pensova's blocks to another time in your calendar and Pensova now keeps it there, instead of sometimes moving it back on its next pass.

All sixteen help videos are on YouTube

The last six help videos joined Pensova's YouTube channel, so every help page now plays its YouTube copy.

Start with a task in one tap, and earn a free week

Until you add your first task, the task box offers a few ready-made ones that fit you, like school forms or this week's dinners for a parent. Tap one, check it, add it. And finish the Getting started steps during your trial to get seven more free days of Pro.

Deadlines land when you set them, and a set time stays put

A deadline you picked or typed, like 5 PM Thursday, was being saved four or five hours early, which cost you the end of the day. It now lands exactly when you said. A task you type or say with a clock time, like "dentist Tuesday at 2:30", now goes on your calendar at 2:30 as a fixed event, the same as with Siri, and "tomorrow morning" means between 8 and noon.

An all-day note no longer takes your whole day

Things like "Spirit Week" or "Pay water bill" that sit at the top of a day, including the ones Pensova adds from a photo, now stay there as reminders, and your tasks still get planned that day. Public holidays, and any all-day event you mark Busy in Google Calendar, still keep the day clear.

A new appointment shows the moment you add it

After you added appointments from a photo, Pensova jumped to the right day but could show it empty for up to a minute, and could plan a task over the new appointment in that time. Now it's there straight away, and your tasks move around it at once.

Help videos now play from YouTube

Ten of the sixteen help videos are on Pensova's YouTube channel, and their help pages play that copy. The rest follow as the channel's daily upload limit allows.

Photos of a busy board or fridge read better

Take a photo of a card pinned up with other notes and Pensova lists what those notes say too, for you to untick if they are not yours. A note for one week only, like a school's Spirit Week, now lands on those days of the coming week instead of repeating every week.

A few helpful emails after you join the beta

If the next step has not happened, one short email says what it is, with the two-minute video and the help article that fit you: connecting the calendar, the first task, how the scheduler decides, Siri or the photo import. Never two within two days, and one tap stops them.

Pass Pensova on, with your own referral link

A couple of weeks after your first task, one email says the biggest compliment Pensova can get is you telling someone, and gives you your own referral page. A friend you refer gets the beta free through 20 November; when paid plans open, each friend who stays on earns you a month free, up to twelve a year.

Refer a friend from Settings

Settings now has a Refer a friend card. Press Get my link and your own referral page is yours to copy or share; a friend who signs up through it gets the beta free through 20 November, and from launch each friend who stays on earns you a month free, up to twelve a year. The help centre explains it under Refer a friend.

A last word for invitations never opened

If you joined the beta but never signed in, one more email reaches you between 10 and 19 November: your invitation link works until the 20th, free, no card, and after that it stops. It is the last email about it, as the earlier reminder promised.

The privacy policy now covers the waitlist and ad sign-ups

What we keep when you join the waitlist or sign up from one of our Facebook or Instagram ads, that Meta passes us only your email, the mailing list at Loops, and the code the beta page keeps in your browser to count visits.

Calendar changes are picked up as they happen

Google tells Pensova when your calendar changes, and an hourly check backs that up. The calendar page now says so.

Help and blog say how fast a change is picked up

Google tells Pensova when a calendar changes, usually within a minute; an hourly check backs it up. The help, the blog, the front page and the services list now say so, the services list shows the Claude connector as live, and the help no longer says times follow your Google Calendar's zone: they follow your device's.

The beta page explains the product before it asks

Visitors from an ad now see what Pensova does in one line, the headline their ad promised, one offer (free until 20 November, no card, Google Calendar required), the real screens step by step, the three clips, an example of a task moving when a meeting lands on it, and clear answers. Email first; Continue with Google beside it.

Ads measurement, with your permission

A small bar asks before one Meta cookie is set; it only tells us which ads lead to sign-ups. Nothing about your calendar or tasks is shared, and you can change your choice on the privacy page.

Assistants can change a task

Ask Claude to move a deadline, change a length or priority, or rename a task, and Pensova re-places the week around it.

Move a task to a day by asking

Tell your assistant to move a task to Tuesday and Pensova books it on Tuesday, not just before it.

A help page for using Pensova from Claude

Step by step: copy the address from Settings, add it in Claude's Connectors, press Allow, then ask in plain words.

Older video links work again

Links to Pensova videos shared in posts before 3 October, like pensova.com/videos/launch.mp4, opened a missing page. They play again, and a download link still saves the file.

Claim the founding year

A year of Pro for $180, locked while the plan runs. Beta testers keep their free weeks: add a card on pensova.com/founding and nothing is charged until the beta ends.

Use Pensova from Claude

Add pensova.com/mcp as a connector, sign in and press Allow. Then ask your assistant to add a task, say what is on this week, or mark something done; Pensova still finds the time. Settings, under Assistants, shows what is connected and disconnects it.

Calendar changes show up within about a minute

When a meeting lands on placed work in Google Calendar, Google now tells Pensova straight away and the work moves within about a minute, instead of at the next quarter-hour check. Your events are still never copied to our servers.

A tidier empty week

The line that says nothing is placed yet now fits a phone screen instead of running off the edge, and no longer appears on weeks that have already passed.

A balanced phone bar

On a phone the bottom bar now has two tabs on each side of the add button, which sits in the middle. Drafts moved into the Tasks screen, and a waiting draft shows as a number on Tasks; tapping it opens your drafts.

A back button on your phone

On a phone, the Tasks and Drafts screen now has a back button to the calendar at the top, and the phone's own back swipe or the browser's back button returns to the calendar instead of leaving the app.

Back never leaves the app

Add task, Notes, Photo and Settings now have a back arrow at the top that stays in view while you scroll, and the phone's back swipe or the browser's back button closes them, then the Tasks screen, and never takes you out of Pensova.

Pensova on your home screen, full screen

On an iPhone, open pensova.com in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. Pensova gets its own icon and opens full screen like an app, with no browser bars taking up room. In Chrome on Android, use the menu and Add to Home screen.

The guide shows you how to put Pensova on your home screen

The first questions now ask which phone you use. On an iPhone or Android phone, the last step of the guide shows how to add Pensova to your home screen, with a picture of each tap ringed in red, so it opens full screen with no browser bars. It also says that Google may ask you to sign in once more the first time you open it from the icon.

Set up your phone during the guide

When you walk through the guide on a phone, it now notices, and right after your first task lands it asks you to put Pensova on your home screen, waiting while you do. Then it sends you to the new icon, and your walk picks up there.

What's new, when you come back

When something changes in Pensova, your next visit opens with a short list of what is new since you were last here, the same entries as this page. Press Got it and it stays out of your way until the next change.

Pensova fits the device you are on

Settings now shows what applies where you are: Siri and Shortcuts on an iPhone, iPad or Mac, and Pensova on your home screen on a phone. The first time you open Pensova on a new kind of device, one short tip says what it can do there. On Android, press and hold the home-screen icon for Add task and Add from photo.

Forms that stay out from under the keyboard

On a phone, Add task and the other forms now sit right above the keyboard, the field you tapped stays in view, and the guide folds to a line while you type. The date fields also fit the screen on an iPhone.

Installing Pensova on your phone is quicker

On Android, the guide and Settings now have an Install Pensova button: one tap and your phone adds the icon. On any phone, once you open Pensova from its icon, the guide knows, and if you later open it in the browser it reminds you the icon is there.

Quicker first questions

The first questions now tick the device you are using for you, so you only add the others, and the first one asks what you want to accomplish with Pensova.

Weekends are on the calendar

The week now shows all seven days, so a task placed on a Saturday or Sunday is where you can see it. On an iPhone the box you type in stays above the keyboard.

Adding a task shows you where it landed

Every task you add takes the calendar straight to it, centred and highlighted, with a line saying when it is. In the walkthrough, a step you have done moves on by itself; saving your working hours takes you back to the calendar. Get the Shortcut now opens beside Pensova, so you can come back after adding it.

Add a task straight from the icon on Android

On an Android phone the walkthrough now shows the icon's own menu: press and hold the Pensova icon and tap Add task. Opening Pensova that way finishes the step by itself, and the walk carries on.

Help test Pensova on your phone

Testers can open a phone check page that shows their phone's details and, only if they press Start, records each walkthrough step and button press for 48 hours (never anything typed). Stop it any time from that page or from Settings.

Phone testing asks first

Before a phone records anything for testing, the check page asks you to tick an agreement that says exactly what is recorded. The privacy policy now covers it, and recordings are deleted after 90 days.

The whole week on your phone

On a phone, Week now shows all seven days on the screen at once, today included, instead of hiding the last days behind a sideways swipe.

The beta page works inside the Facebook app

Google does not allow its sign-in inside the browsers built into Facebook and Instagram, where an ad opens. There the beta page now leads with the email invitation, and says how to open the page in the phone's own browser to use Continue with Google.

A guided first session

New accounts start with four one-tap questions about what they hope for and how they work, then the app walks them through its parts in the order that fits, lighting up the next thing to do. A task lands on the calendar within the first few steps. Skippable at any point.

The guide points at what to do next

A red arrow now points at the thing each step asks you to press, on a phone and a desktop, and goes away while something else is open over it. When a photo adds a schedule, the sheet closes on its own, the calendar jumps to the day the first block landed, and a line names the block with its day and time, so a block three weeks out no longer looks like it was never added. If you have one Google calendar, the step about choosing calendars is left out: there is nothing to choose.

The guide teaches the app, not a panel

The guided first session no longer has buttons of its own. It says what to press and a red line runs from the panel to that control, which is ringed; you press it in the app. When a form opens, the walk continues inside it: type or speak the task, press Fill in fields, check what it filled, press Add task. The same on a phone, an iPad and a desktop. If the control is behind an open sheet, the guide points at the × first.

No blank page under the app on an iPad

On an iPad, typing in a form could leave the whole page scrolled down with blank space under the app. The app is now pinned to the screen and goes back to the top when the keyboard closes.

The guide takes its own space on an iPad or desktop

On a wide screen the guide's panel now sits at the bottom of the task column instead of floating over the list and the calendar, so it covers nothing; it floats only while a form is open. The Connect step is left out when your calendar is already connected, so the walk starts with something to do.

Plainer words on the calendar

The app no longer calls the calendar a grid or a placed task a block. What Add from photo puts on your calendar is called what it is: a fixed event your tasks plan around.

Two walks: quick setup or the full walkthrough

The intake now asks how much of a walk you want. Quick is the essentials, about five minutes. Full is everything, about ten: moving a task, the Day to Week views, blocking fixed time, accepting a draft, forwarding meeting notes or a transcript to your private address, Hey Siri on an iPhone, and where the help and videos live. Settings has a Quick guide and a Full guide button to take either again, and a move is explained the moment you make one.

The guide never covers the screen

On a phone the guide's panel now takes its own space above the bar, and inside a form it sits at the foot of the form, so nothing is hidden behind it and the screen no longer jumps about to get out of its way.

Editing a task keeps its evenings and weekends

The Edit form was missing the Evenings and weekends too box, and saving an edit quietly switched it off, so a weekend task could stop fitting before its deadline. Found by a beta tester. The box is on the Edit form now and keeps its setting.

Working hours on the half hour

Settings now lets the working day start or end on the half hour, 8:30 to 5:30 for example, and the scheduler keeps to it to the minute. Asked for by a beta tester.

One tap into the beta

The beta page now has Continue with Google at the top: sign in and the beta opens straight away, under the same daily limit, with the invitation email following as a receipt. The email path is still there under it. The two clips the ads run play on the page, so it shows what the ad showed.

Updates are never sent twice

Last week's update reached the beta group twice. An update identical to one already sent is now refused when it is scheduled and skipped when it is due.

The waitlist page, rewritten for a phone

It now opens with the problem, two calendars that never talk to each other, and puts the email box in the first screen on a phone, with the founding offer and the details below it.

Get beta access

The waitlist button now says what it gives you: beta access, with new people let in every Monday, free until 20 November, no card.

Instant beta access

Join from the site and the beta invitation arrives by email within a minute, free until 20 November, no card. Thirty a day; after that the day's joiners are invited on Monday as before.

Pensova Corp., a New York corporation

The terms, the about page and the founding terms now name the company as Pensova Corp., a New York corporation, with the terms governed by New York law.

A referred invitation names who sent it

Someone you refer gets an invitation that opens with your name, and you are copied on it and thanked when they are in. The invitation itself now points new testers at the three things worth trying first: a photo of a schedule, the microphone, and Hey Siri, with a video for each.

Straight answers on the Security page

The Security and data page now opens with the eight questions people ask before connecting a calendar, answered in plain words: whether your calendar is stored, who can see it, whether it trains an AI, and how to get out.

Refer someone to the beta

A tester with a referral link can put forward a friend: first name, last name and email. Terry is told at once and approves each one, and nothing reaches the person until then.

Your referral link arrives by email

When you are given a referral link, it comes to you in a short note from Terry with what happens when you use it.

Beta access runs to 20 November

Invitations sent from 28 September give free access until full launch on 20 November. The founding testers keep the ninety days they were promised.

The site catches up with the app

A new page, Add from anywhere, shows every way a task gets in, with the clips: type it, say it, photograph the schedule, or say “Hey Siri, capture this” from the car. Weekend and anytime placement is explained on the Tasks page and in the comparisons, and the founding members offer has its own section on Pricing and the home page, with the video.

Hey Siri, capture this

A private link in Settings and a Shortcut you install once let you say a task from the lock screen, the car or a watch, and hear back where it landed.

Evenings and weekends too

A task can now be booked outside working hours, by a checkbox in Add task or simply by putting it on a Saturday.

Switching between Day, 3 days, 5 days and Week, and paging between weeks, is now instant.

Say a fixed event to Siri and it lands as a block

Say "Hey Siri, capture this", then an event with a day, a clock time and how long, such as karate every Saturday at ten thirty for an hour, and it goes on your calendar as a fixed block, repeating when you say so.

Fixed: finishing, deleting or moving a task could leave its old event on Google Calendar. Leftover events on affected calendars were removed.

Add from photo has a For field: type a name once and it goes in front of every title, so the calendar reads "Billy · Practice".

No third-party analytics on the site or in the app

The privacy policy says so, and the pages load nothing but Pensova's own code.

Tap a block on an iPad and the quick view opens as a sheet at the bottom

It no longer covers the block or its neighbours; the card beside the block is for a mouse or trackpad.

Add from photo

Take a picture of a class, practice or shift schedule, check what Pensova read, and every entry becomes a weekly fixed block on your Google Calendar.

Say the task instead of typing it

Press the microphone beside the task box, speak, and the words land in the box; the draft step follows as usual. Chrome, Edge and Safari on iPhone and Mac.

Add from photo reads a week on the family calendar

One-off appointments land on their day; a timetable still gives weekly blocks; each row has a Repeats weekly switch.

Fixed: meetings could appear twice on the week view

The primary calendar was being read under two names.

Fixed: Day view opened on the first day of the week instead of today

Day, 3 days and 5 days now start from today.

Adding a task, moving a block and finishing work save in about a second

Google Calendar is written a moment later in the background.

Calendar blocks now show the title only, so short meetings are readable at a glance. Tap a block to see its exact time.

Fixed: the Schedule all and Add task buttons at the top of the calendar now line up.

Done on the quick view

Tap a block, press Done, and the task is finished; its blocks leave the grid at once and the calendar follows.

Fixed: calendars with more than 250 events in two weeks lost their placed work

Every event is read now, however many there are.

The waitlist page is closed for now

The founding offer is still described on the pricing page.

The waitlist page is open again

Founding member details still go to the list first.

The pricing page shows the founding offer and marks Pro as most popular

The three comparison pages are in the Resources menu.

Schedule all on a phone

At the top of the Tasks panel.

Calendar events show their titles in the week view

"Busy" appears only where a calendar is shared as free/busy.

Tap a block for its title and priority

Edit opens that task's row in the panel.

The quick view is a bottom sheet on phones

Pensova is on X

@OfficialPensova

The getting started video walks through the app itself

Settings, the grid, a real drag, a real split, Meeting notes and Resources.

Getting started video is a full walkthrough

A task typed in plain words, a real drag to another day and a long task splitting across the week, on the faster app.

Dragging a block is instant

The block stays where you dropped it while the save runs behind it.

Saving a task is faster

A new task is placed in a few seconds instead of a quarter of a minute; the calendar writes run side by side.

Saving a task is faster

Down from about seventeen seconds to a few; more to come.

The dashboard loads faster

On a phone, Resources is in the top bar

Fixed: the help icon's question mark was cut in half

Security headers on every page

Terms updated

Beta access, disputes and your responsibilities; agreement is recorded at sign-in and at checkout.

Pensova is on LinkedIn

linkedin.com/company/pensova

Privacy policy: a cookies section

Only the cookies the app needs, and no banner.

Fixed: the Getting started card's calendar step stays done once a placed task is finished

Edit, status and schedule controls always visible on a desktop

They used to appear only while the mouse hovered the row.

Times follow your device

Pensova works in the time zone of the device you open it on, the way the Google Calendar apps do; travel and it follows.

Fixed: captions no longer appear twice on the help videos

Five help videos re-recorded

The article page no longer shows a picture of itself inside itself.

Checkout takes a card or Link

No bank-debit rows that settle days later.

The waitlist shows founding spots remaining and who is bringing friends.

Beta invitees are pointed at the videos

In the invitation, the welcome banner and the Getting started card.

An owner's page at /admin with beta, revenue, waitlist, access and the pro forma.

Stripe products, prices and portal are set up by one command.

A pre-flight check for the Stripe account.

Billing repairs a stale customer record instead of failing on it.

Paid plans are live

Real cards and real subscriptions, on Stripe.

Beta invitations survive being opened from a mail app.

Help videos re-recorded: the narration reads correctly and captions no longer cover the app.

Build dashboard shows the current week day by day.

Load test for the public pages.

Background replanning spreads its work across the quarter hour.

Founding membership is $180 a year, limited to 500 spots.

Lite is $9 a month and Pro is $29; a year is still 10% off.

Billing and Getting started videos updated for the new prices.

Verified by Google

Google reviewed Pensova and both Calendar permissions. The sign-in warning is gone, and there is no longer a cap on the number of accounts.

A waitlist for founding members

Join at pensova.com/waitlist, get a referral link, and move up the list for every friend who joins. The founding-member price and spots go to the list first.

Beta invitations

Invited testers get Pro free for a set period with no card, through a private link; a Send feedback form lives in Settings.

One word for split work

A split task now "becomes several blocks", matching what the calendar shows, and the rule reads "no block shorter than thirty minutes".

Help videos re-recorded so every highlight is on screen.

Task rows agree with the calendar

Block times and deadlines on task rows and drafts are shown in your calendar's time zone, the same as the grid.

Help videos

Every help article now has a narrated walkthrough video at the top of its page, with captions.

Resources inside the app

Every help article and its video are now in the app under Resources, with search and a place to ask a question, so there is no need to sign out to read them.

The app redesigned

The calendar is the whole surface, with today tinted and a live line at the current time. Tasks, capture and drafts sit in a side panel; settings, add task and meeting notes open as sheets.

Fixes from the first look at the redesign

Task controls no longer crush the row, one tab strip instead of two, and the sidebar no longer repeats the range switcher.

The app survives a narrow monitor

The sidebar collapses to icons and the panel becomes a sheet before anything overlaps.

A gear that is a gear, and your initials from your name

Account row shows your name over your email

Splittable tasks can split below an hour

No block is shorter than thirty minutes now, so a fifty-minute task can take a half-hour gap today and finish tomorrow.

The front page week shows work and life together

Practice, date night and Friday drinks on the same calendar as the board deck.

Drag a block to a new time

Drag a placed block to another time or day inside Pensova. It moves in Google Calendar too, and the scheduler keeps it there.

A full public website

Home, pricing, product pages, help center, security and data, about, contact, comparisons, changelog and blog.

Meeting notes by email

Forward a notes email to your private Pensova address and the action items that are yours come back as drafts. The email is read once and discarded.

Trusted sender addresses for notes by email

Add up to five of your own addresses; forwards from them count as yours.

Drafts arrive with a 30-minute estimate

When the notes did not say how long, the draft now suggests thirty minutes; change it before accepting.

Getting started, in the app

A five-step card walks a new account from connecting Google to the first block on the calendar, and hides itself when done.

A fuller help center

Twelve articles, from the first five minutes to troubleshooting, grouped so the answer is one click away. The support chat reads the same pages.

Lite's capture allowance and what happens when a trial ends

Lite includes 50 captures a calendar month, shown once you are under ten. When a trial ends or a payment fails, Pensova stops placing work until billing is settled; your tasks and calendar stay put.

Getting started, a help center of twelve articles, and fair limits

A Getting started checklist and a one-time welcome for new accounts; the help center rewritten as twelve articles the support chat also answers from; Lite's 50 captures a month is now counted, and a lapsed trial or failed subscription pauses placement with a plain way back.

Help articles as narrated videos

The first two help articles are now short videos as well as pages; the rest follow the same way.

A public front page, privacy policy and terms

Fixed: the dashboard failed to load after Google access was revoked

Usable on a phone

Bigger touch targets, a grid that fits a phone for Day and 3-day views and scrolls for the rest.

Week view starts on your first day of the week

And says when the grid scrolls sideways.

Meeting notes become draft tasks

Paste notes from any meeting tool. Each action item comes back as a draft with a suggested duration and deadline, to accept or dismiss. Pro plan.

Lite and Pro plans with a 7-day trial

Billing runs on Stripe: Checkout to start, the billing portal for everything after.

Fixed: a billing error no longer takes down the page

Meeting notes know who you are

Items that name you become your drafts; items for other people do not.

No duplicate drafts

Pasting the same notes twice, or notes that mention work already on your list, skips the repeats.

Tasks are scheduled onto your Google Calendar

Each task becomes an event in the free time you have.

Every calendar you can see counts as busy

Not just your primary calendar: shared and subscribed calendars block time too.

Choose which calendars count

Each calendar can be switched in or out of what the scheduler treats as busy.

Finishing or deleting a task frees its time

Priority drives scheduling

Urgent work is placed before high, high before medium. Schedule all replans everything. Working hours and days are yours to set.

The app says why a task was not scheduled

Edit a task after creating it

Repeating tasks

Daily, weekly, every two weeks, monthly or yearly, with an optional end date.

Long tasks can split across days

Check “Can be split” and work longer than any single gap becomes several blocks across the week.

Describe a task in plain words

Type “deck for the board by Thursday, 2 hrs” and review the draft before it lands.

New tasks are placed the moment they are saved

A task without a duration defaults to an hour.

Block fixed time

Protect a focus block or a standing commitment; it is written to Google Calendar as a recurring event and the scheduler works around it.

The week view

Meetings and placed work on one grid inside the app.

Calendars shared as free/busy count as busy

Day, 3-day, 5-day and week views

Non-working days are hidden, and the week can start on any day.

All-day events shown in their own row, not across the hour grid

Your changes in Google Calendar win

Move one of Pensova's blocks in Google Calendar and it stays where you put it. Delete one and the task shows as unscheduled.

Replanning in the background

Every 15 minutes each connected calendar is checked; when a meeting lands on placed work, the work moves, whether or not the app is open.

pensova.com is live

Sign in with Google and connect your calendar

Two Calendar permissions, and nothing else

Pensova asks Google only to read your calendars and to create events. No mail, contacts or files.