Release notes

What’s changed in MyPA

Every release of MyPA, newest first, with the new features, the improvements and the fixes that went into it.

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1.2.207.0

31 October 2026 Latest

The Mail Room: read, write and file your email in MyPA, with Smart Sweep in its Inbox — and time zones handled when you travel.

New

Mail Room — a Mail tab in the Planner for your accounts’ folders: a folder bar with the folders you use most pinned, a newest-first list with conversations brought together across folders, and a reading pane that shows each message clean, without the formatting and signature clutter, or exactly as it was sent.
Search — by person, word, attachment, date or folder as you type, with suggestions, filter chips and the best matches first. Pin a search to the folder bar to keep it.
Write email in MyPA — New Email, Reply, Reply All and Forward, in the reading pane or a window of their own, with your Outlook signature beneath. Pictures (pasted, dropped in, or from your recent pictures, offered smaller when they are large), tables, alignment, lists, colours, links to websites you visited lately, and @mentions in Outlook’s own format.
A last look before it goes — spelling in your own language, with suggestions and Add to dictionary on the right-click menu; a forgotten attachment, an empty subject or a placeholder left in. Send now or later, set its importance, and follow it up or file it with a task or meeting as it goes.
Drafts — saved as you write and opened in place from the Drafts folder. A draft started in Outlook can be continued there or brought over.
Smart Sweep in the Mail Room — the Inbox’s Sweep view, with bands you drag messages between and Apply over them, which says what it will do before it does it. All mail shows the Inbox as a list instead.
Meeting invitations — answered from the reading pane, with a link to see the time in your Day Plan. Edit the response before sending opens it as an email.
Everything you do with mail — Make Task, Link to a task or appointment, Move (with the folders you used lately), Delete with Undo, categories, Mark as read, Not Junk, and for the Outbox, Change send time and Send now.
Attachments view — the files in your recent mail in one list, to open, save or attach to a new email.
Time zones — a home time zone for your working hours, in Settings ▸ Scheduling Windows. When you travel, MyPA keeps to those hours, leaves the work it has planned where it is, and shows every time in local time. A meeting set in another time zone shows its own time too, in brackets: 10:00–11:00 (15:00–16:00 BST).

Improved

Time Log for the whole Planner — time spent in the Planner is logged as planning or email, and time on an email that belongs to a task goes to the task.
Day Plan cards say where a task stands — “Due today · not started” — and the focus card’s +N opens its people.
Quicker estimates — a Time Needed, Time Left or Time Spent preset applies with one click, and there are 5, 10 and 15 minute presets.
Big folders open quickly and read more of themselves as you scroll.
A gentler reminder — a missed departure now reads “12 mins since planned departure time”.
Updates install quietly — installing a new version no longer asks you to close Outlook, Teams or OneNote.
Ribbon — Defer (was Defer Start), Link with its own icon, and Attach and Send Later on new mail.

Fixed

When the clocks went back, MyPA’s background planning paused for an hour, and a running timer lost an hour. When they went forward, a paused timer could start again.
West of home, a flagged email’s due date could show as the day before, and an all-day event could seem to cover two days.
Setting your work location from another time zone could add a second entry for the day.
On computers that write dates day first, Smart Sweep could read the wrong stretch of the Inbox.

1.1.187.28

21 October 2026

Faster ways to add work, plan it and finish it — new tasks, appointments, meetings and emails in a sentence or a click.

New

Target Date — one popup, on every card and from the ribbon’s Pick a Date, for when a task should be done by, with a start date when you want one and your working days marked.
Time Needed and Time Left — say how long a task needs with a quick choice (“Half an hour”, “Two hours”) or by typing “1h30”, drawn against the free time you have before it is due.
Finishing a task — mark it done, or say how much is left, and record the time it took: from the work timer if you used one, or the estimate. If it is not done, choose when to pick it up again, from later today to later this week or month.
New Appointment, in full — reminders (or travel time, on accounts that use it), Private, time zones by city or abbreviation, a place picker with your meeting rooms and whether they are free, and Auto Pick, which finds a time everyone you invite can make.
New Email from the Planner — address it, give it categories, and link it to a task or an appointment before it goes, or choose to follow it up once it is sent.
Reminders of MyPA’s own — for meetings: when to get ready and when to leave, allowing for travel. They wait while you are presenting, in a full-screen app or in Do not disturb.
Task Board cards — a button for a card’s emails and one for its people, marks for high or low importance and intensity, and the time needed beside a timer button.

Improved

New Task and New Appointment read as you type — the words MyPA understood are highlighted in the sentence itself, with small buttons over them to undo a reading or switch it, and the form is shorter for it. It now reads “this month”, “Tues 13 Oct”, “Weds” and “Thurs”, and clock times such as “3pm”.
Add one after another — after adding, the form stays open with a note of what was added and a link to it on the board or the day; start typing the next one to carry on.
Tidier forms — Notes is one line that opens to three, and the labels are in Title Case.
Popups that behave — one at a time, under or beside the card they belong to, closed by a click anywhere else, and with shadows.
Meeting answers as menus — Accept, Tentative and Decline each offer to edit the response before it goes; Propose new time sits beside them, and a proposed time can be accepted.
The timer asks in the right place — when you stop it, the question appears where the timer was started: the ribbon, the Day Plan or the Task Board.
Small things — “Not Started” in the Day Plan’s task list, the reading view’s text size buttons at the top, and a pause icon (with the reason as a tooltip) when planning is paused outside working hours.

Fixed

Time Needed sometimes did not open from Smart Sweep or New Task.
In Smart Sweep, custom dates lost their end time, the reading view kept showing a message after nothing was selected, and deleting a meeting invitation did not work.
Meeting preparation and follow-up tasks could be created twice.

1.0.186.4

5 October 2026

Meeting invitations, answered from Smart Sweep’s reading view.

New

Meeting cards in the reading view — an invitation, an update, a reply or a cancellation now opens as a card with the meeting itself on it: when, where, who is coming, and whether anything else is in your calendar then. Whatever the organiser wrote is underneath, and the joining instructions every invitation carries are folded away.
Accept, Tentative and Decline — answer an invitation from the foot of the reading view, or take a cancelled meeting off your calendar. The organiser is told, and the row leaves the list at once.
Recurring invitations — a series is shown by its pattern (“Every Wednesday · 10:00 – 10:30”), with when it starts and ends, and how many of its coming meetings land on something you already have.
New time proposed — when somebody proposes a different time, the card shows the time they are asking for, the one it would replace, and whether you are free at the new one.
Show in Day Plan — a link beside an invitation’s time takes you to that day and time in the Day Plan, to see what is either side of it before you answer.

Improved

Invitations are due the day before the meeting — an invitation that becomes a task can be answered from today and is due the working day before the meeting, rather than always today. For a meeting today, it is due by the time the meeting starts.
“Not Started” in Smart Sweep — the action that makes a message a task is now named for the state the task starts in, as the Task Board names it, instead of “Schedule”.
Clearer action buttons — the buttons in a row’s editor say which of them make a task (“Task - Not Started”, “Task - In Progress”, “Task - Waiting”, “Task - Completed”), and Link to Task now sits with them.
Smart Sweep without “Leave” — every message gets an answer, so leaving one in the inbox is no longer offered or proposed.
Help covers the reading view — the Smart Sweep section of Help now explains the reading view: what it shows and folds away, replying and forwarding from it, and answering meeting invitations.

Fixed

The New and Edit forms for tasks and appointments in the Planner changed width with the length of the title. They are now one fixed width.
A meeting message made a task from Smart Sweep was always flagged for today, whatever dates its row showed. It now takes the row’s dates.
An update to a recurring meeting was judged by the date the series began, so one that changed today’s meeting was not raised as a change to your day.
Help described things Smart Sweep no longer has: leaving a message in the inbox, and an Apply button on each row. It now says how a row is applied and when an invitation is due.

1.0.185.2

4 October 2026

Small refinements to the Planner and to Smart Sweep’s reading view.

New

All clear — a green chip at the top of the Planner when no task needs attention and no meeting has changed your day, so an empty corner no longer leaves you wondering.
Write to an address from the reading view — a link to an email address in a message now opens MyPA’s New Email form, already addressed and with the link’s subject filled in.

Improved

Smart Sweep without “Needs you” — every message now sits in the band of what is proposed for it, so the queue is one list of outcomes rather than outcomes plus a separate pile to check. The first band opens by itself.
Quieter links in the reading view — links are a softer colour with a dotted underline, so a paragraph with several of them still reads as a paragraph.
Schedule for a specific date and time — the time is now set with the same control as everywhere else in MyPA: type it or pick it, to the minute.
Replan Now — the refresh button at the top of the Planner is labelled for what it does.

Fixed

Editing a task or an appointment showed the instructions for describing a new one in a sentence. The form now says what editing does.

1.0.184

3 October 2026

The first public release of MyPA.

New

Day Plan — MyPA reads your tasks, looks at the shape of your day and blocks real time in your Outlook calendar for each piece of work. When a meeting lands or something overruns, it reshuffles what is left.
Planning that allows for the day you actually have — it works around your existing meetings and commitments, allows for your commute and for the buffer you need either side of a meeting, and can take extra working sessions when a day does not run to normal hours.
Task Board — a kanban-style board built into MyPA, with columns for Backlog, Scheduled, In Progress, Waiting and Done. Each card carries its target, duration, priority and intensity.
Plans tasks from wherever you keep them — Outlook’s own tasks and flagged mail, Microsoft To Do, another task manager that syncs into Outlook or Exchange, or MyPA’s own Task Board.
Smart Sweep — works through the inbox, even years of it, and suggests an outcome for every message: file it, archive it, delete it, turn it into a task, or attach it to a task you are already tracking. Messages open in a stripped-back reading view, free of formatting and signatures. It learns from what you have archived and sent, and nothing happens until you accept it.
Contact Book — one person’s tasks, appointments and email in a single searchable view, tied into the Task Board, the Day Plan and Smart Sweep.
Time Log — start and stop timers against planned work, and see where the week actually went, including how much of each estimate is left.
Multiple calendars — MyPA plans around every calendar it can see, including a personal calendar subscribed in Outlook through its ICS link, so it will not plan work over the school run.
MyPA ribbon tab in Outlook — the commands you need from the Outlook views you already work in, with the Planner window there when you want the fuller view.
45-day free trial — the full product, starting automatically on first use, with no card and nothing to enter. A licence key activates it permanently afterwards.

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