Apple Watch
Set on Apple Watch
The watch app is included with Set, not a separate purchase. It shows today’s plan on your wrist and works whether or not your iPhone is with you, because it syncs through iCloud on its own rather than relying on a connection to your phone.
Today on your wrist
Your timeline appears in order, with priority colours, the next task highlighted, and your finish time under the list. Overdue start times show in red, exactly as they do on iPhone.
- Tap a task to complete it. You get haptic feedback, and the completion counts towards your stats and streaks like any other. Finished tasks drop into a Done section.
- Reschedule rebuilds the rest of your day from now, chirp and all, the same as the button on iPhone. Locked tasks keep their slots.
- Tap a duration in a task’s detail to change it, and the rest of the day’s times move with it.
Calendar events
Today’s calendar events appear on the wrist alongside your tasks, slotted into the timeline at their real times, in quieter styling with a calendar glyph. They are read-only here: no completion circle, no editing.
The watch reads your calendar itself rather than waiting for your iPhone to pass the events across, so they are there even when your phone is switched off or out of range. The first time you open Today on the watch it will ask for calendar access. Decline and the list works exactly as before, just without events.
Events Set created for your own tasks are shown as the task, not twice.
The timer
The Timer page mirrors whatever is running on your iPhone: a project-coloured ring filling towards your estimate, elapsed and remaining time, and pause, complete and stop. Past your estimate the remaining time turns red and counts up with a plus. You can also start a timer from any task’s detail.
Completing from the watch runs the same completion your iPhone would, so the real timer minutes land in the task and in your stats.
The controls need your iPhone within Bluetooth or Wi-Fi range and grey out when it is not reachable. The time itself keeps counting either way.
Complications
Two complications, each in rectangular, inline and circular sizes:
- Next Task: what is next, when it starts, how many are left, and when the day finishes
- Stats: completed today, completed this week, and your current streak
Tap one and it opens the right page rather than wherever the app happened to be last: Next Task lands on Today, Stats lands on Stats.
Your calendar events are included, so the next thing shown really is the next thing, whether it is a task or a meeting. The complication is built from your whole day in advance, so the face keeps up without the app running.
Adding tasks by voice
Tap the + and dictate. The task joins the end of today’s plan. Say a duration in the sentence, like “email Sam 15m”, and Set reads it out of the text. You can also say “Add a Set task” to Siri, on the watch or on your iPhone. See Siri and Shortcuts for more.
On the free plan, once today is full the task is still saved, into your Inbox rather than today, and the watch tells you so.
Stats
The Stats page shows what you have done today, what you have done this week, and your current streak.
What the watch does not do
The watch is built for running your day, not for setting it up. Projects, stages, notes, settings and sync configuration all live on iPhone, iPad and Mac. If something is missing from the wrist, that is where to look for it.