Help, and a human.

⌥Space — anywhere on your Mac, without leaving what you’re in. A small panel drops in, takes the keystrokes, and vanishes. Nuvo never steals your window.

⌘K — the command bar inside the app.

C — jumps your cursor into the capture field on the Schedule, for when you’re already there.

All three land in the same place: the inbox. Nothing is scheduled, routed, or decided until you decide it.

Type it like you’d text yourself. Nuvo reads the structure out of the sentence and shows you what it understood, so a wrong guess is visible and one tap to remove.

call David tomorrow 9am 30m #church !high @sermon // bring the outline

tomorrow 9am

Dates and times, written how you’d say them. “next tuesday”, “fri 2pm”.

30m · 1h · 1h30

How long it takes. Feeds the week’s arithmetic.

#label

A label. Type as many as you like.

!high · !med · !low

Priority.

@project

Route it — to a project, initiative, or domain by name.

// a note

Everything after the slashes becomes the description, untouched.

None of it is required. “pick up the dry cleaning” is a perfectly good capture.

Every field in Nuvo is a plain text input, so your system dictation works everywhere without a special mode — tap the mic on iOS, or use macOS dictation, and talk. The same parsing applies to what comes out.

Settings (⌘,) → Calendars. Connect as many accounts as you like, from as many providers as you like — that’s the point. Work on Google, family on Apple, corp on Microsoft, the volunteer thing as an ICS feed.

Apple requires an app-specific password rather than your Apple ID password. It takes about a minute:

1. Go to appleid.apple.com and sign in.
2. Open Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords.
3. Generate one, and name it something like “Nuvo”.
4. Copy the password Apple shows — it looks like abcd-efgh-ijkl-mnop — and paste it into Nuvo with your Apple ID.

Changing your Apple ID password invalidates app-specific passwords. If iCloud sync stops after a password change, generate a new one and reconnect.

Settings → Calendars lists every individual calendar under each account, with a toggle. Hide the birthday feed, the holidays feed, the one your company auto-subscribed you to. Hidden calendars don’t show on the grid and don’t count against your available hours — which is the part that matters, because a fake-busy calendar makes the week’s arithmetic lie.

On first Google connect, Nuvo finds or creates a calendar named Nuvo and reconciles your scheduled work to it. That way anyone looking at your calendar — including your other tools — sees the time you committed, without Google becoming the source of truth.

It’s one-directional on purpose: edit the block in Nuvo, not in Google. If you’d rather no one saw it, hide or delete the Nuvo calendar in Google — or don’t connect Google at all.

Work moves through Nuvo in one direction, and there’s exactly one gate. Understanding this is most of understanding the app.

Inbox

Raw captures. You never plan straight out of here — you process it first.

Backlog

Processed and deliberately undated. Project work waits here without nagging you. It never rolls, and it never shows up on Today uninvited.

The Week

What you actually committed to carry. This is the gate: nothing reaches a day without passing through a week you agreed to.

Today

It has a date, and maybe an hour. A scheduled task IS the block on your calendar — there’s no second copy to keep in step.

Sunday is where the week gets decided, and it’s minutes, not an afternoon. You see what moved, sweep what’s loose, name the priorities you’re betting on, pull the work those priorities need, and compose it onto real days.

You can run it any day — it’s called Sunday because that’s when most people want it, not because the app enforces a calendar. Miss one and nothing breaks; you just start the week without the gate closed behind you.

Nuvo adds up what your in-flight projects need this week and divides it by the hours you actually have — your working hours, minus the meetings your calendars already know about.

Roughly 0.7 to 1.0 is a week you can carry. Over 1.0 and you’re making a promise the hours don’t support. Well under, and something you said mattered isn’t being pulled in.

The ceiling is calibrated against the pace you’ve actually proven over the last four weeks — not the pace you wish you had — with a little room to grow. A brand-new account has no history to calibrate against, and it will say so rather than pretend.

A priority is a named outcome for the week. You can write one as pure intention, but it gets useful when it’s bound to a real project — then its progress is derived from actual finished work instead of your memory of it, and Friday can show you what moved without you keeping score.

Drag from the rail onto the grid. Drag the block to move it, drag its edge to resize. That block is the task — there’s no separate event to reconcile, which is why moving it in Nuvo just works everywhere else too.

Standing time works the other way round: protect a recurring window — the 6–8am block, Thursday afternoons — and matching work is drawn into it when the week is composed.

The morning brief pulls from the week you already committed to and asks you to name today — it isn’t a blank page, because the decisions were made on Sunday.

The evening close leads with what moved, then sends leftovers back to the week rather than letting them pile onto tomorrow by default.

Rollover — overnight, unfinished work from yesterday comes forward to today. It keeps its duration, loses its time, and carries a ↻ badge so a task that’s rolled four times is visibly a task that’s rolled four times.

Overdue — a block goes overdue an hour after it was meant to end, and pins to the top of today in orange. One hour of grace, then it says something.

Repeats never roll. A missed Monday standup doesn’t become a Tuesday standup. Recurring work either happened or it didn’t.

Domain

An area of lasting responsibility — one you’ve committed to keep showing up in. Work, family, health, the thing you serve. Not a folder, not a tag you’ll forget you made. It carries a color that identifies its work everywhere else in the app.

Initiative

A big outcome under a domain — usually about a quarter’s worth. “Launch the new service.” “Get back to running.”

Project

A finite thing that gets finished. It has a size and a finish line, and those two numbers are what let Nuvo say how much of it belongs in this week.

Task

The atom. Give it a date and it’s planned; give it an hour and it’s a block on your calendar.

⌘1 – ⌘4 jump between the floors; ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ travel the ladder.

A timeline of your projects across the coming weeks. This is the coarse call — is this a February thing or an April thing — made before anything touches an hour. Drag a project onto a week and the demand it creates shows up immediately, so overload is visible while it’s still cheap to fix.

Work that isn’t shaped can’t be honestly scheduled: you can’t estimate it, so it can’t be measured against your hours. Grooming is the short pass that gives a project an outcome and its tasks a size. Readiness reports where the funnel needs you — it’s a thermometer, not a scoreboard, and it never nags.

A Friday pass that closes the week from evidence rather than memory: completed blocks, meetings you actually attended, and — if you connect it — the work you shipped on GitHub. It surfaces at most one real finding, and stays quiet when there isn’t one. Manufactured insight is worse than silence.

⌘J opens Nuvo. Ask in plain language — it can scaffold a project into tasks, propose a week, prepare the pre-work for a block, or just answer a question about your own funnel.

It drafts into quiet places and waits. It does not move work onto your calendar, reschedule your day, or act while you’re away. Everything it does shows up as a card you can undo in one tap. That’s a product decision, not a limitation: an assistant that runs your day removes the judgment the whole app exists to build.

To answer usefully it needs context, so your prompt goes out with the relevant slice of your planning data — the tasks, calendar snippets, and project structure the question actually needs — to the language-model provider that generates the proposal. It’s used to answer you, and for nothing else. Details are in the privacy policy.

Appearance

Five looks, each in light and dark. Purely cosmetic — pick the one you want to sit in all day.

Schedule

Working hours, which day your week starts on, and your time zone.

Calendars

Connect, reconnect, and choose which individual calendars are visible.

Integrations

Other sources of finished work, like GitHub.

Labels

The #labels you’ve created.

Account

Who you’re signed in as, and sign out.

Billing

Your plan, card, invoices, and cancellation.

About

Your version, what changed in each release, and a replay of the welcome tour.