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Timely 1.2, Public Beta

Timely 1.2 is ready for testing. It has some major new features I'm really proud of.

Saved locations

Timely’s Saved Locations screen showing Home, Work, and other saved addresses.

If you regularly create countdowns with travel to the same places, typing or searching for the same addresses over and over is tedious.

In Timely 1.2 you can set Home and Work locations, save other frequently used addresses, and mark the ones you use most often as favourites.

When you're setting a location in a countdown, your favourites are immediately available to pick from. Or just start typing the name of any saved location and Timely will surface it.

Multi-stop routes

Timely 1.2 lets you plan an entire journey as part of your countdown, including an origin, destination, and up to ten intermediate stops.

Timely’s Travel Planner showing a preparation buffer, travel legs, a Work stop, and a Liz & Will’s destination.

Each stop can have its own duration, and Timely accounts for the time you'll spend there as well as the time spent travelling between locations.

There are buffers at either end of the journey too: Prepare to Leave gives you time to get yourself out the door, while Arrive Early makes sure you're there with time to spare.

These buffers can be preconfigured as defaults in Settings, so if you always want ten minutes to find a park and five minutes to get yourself out the door, Timely can apply them automatically each time you create a new countdown with a location.

Multi-stop routes can be fully automated too. The Add to Timely (Extended) action now includes a new 'Route JSON' mode for dynamically supplying an entire route.

A redesigned countdown view

The internal countdown screen has had a substantial redesign.

Timely’s redesigned countdown screen showing a Lunch at Liz & Will’s countdown, leave-by time, travel duration, arrival time, and destination.

Titles, emoji, dates, alarms and countdowns now have a clearer hierarchy, making all countdowns easier to scan.

For countdowns with travel, there's a new three-column summary showing when you need to leave by, how long you'll be travelling, and when you're planning to arrive.

Your destination sits at the bottom of the screen, ready to start turn-by-turn navigation with a tap. You can also expand it into a full route summary to review each leg of your journey and quickly adjust buffer times without going back into the countdown editor.

This expandable sheet is my favourite part of the update.

Ready to test

There are still details I'm refining. That's what the beta is for.

But there's a lot here I can't wait for people to experience.

If you haven't already, join the beta here.