Type in Any Language, Feel the Swipe, See Your Timer: Nyura Gets Smarter

Nyura's smart input has always been good at detecting priorities and due dates when you type in English or French. Write "urgent" or "tomorrow" in a task title, and Nyura suggests the right priority level and due date automatically. But if your native language is German or Spanish, you were out of luck — until now.

Starting today, smart input understands German and Spanish natively. Type "dringend" (urgent in German) and Nyura flags it as high priority. Write "uebermorgen" (the day after tomorrow) and the due date is set two days from now. In Spanish, "manana" sets the due date to tomorrow, and "urgente" triggers a high-priority suggestion.

This is not machine translation running in the background. We built dedicated keyword maps for each language that cover priorities (dringend, wichtig, niedrig, urgente, importante, baja) and relative dates (morgen, uebermorgen, naechste Woche, manana, la proxima semana, hoy). The detection is instant because it happens locally in the browser, with zero API calls.

Why does this matter? Because productivity tools should work the way you think, not the way they were programmed. If you think in German, you should not have to mentally translate to English just to get a due date suggestion. Nyura now meets you where you are, in four languages — with more coming soon.

Here is a bug that perfectly illustrates why natural language parsing is hard. If you typed "no rush, finish whenever" in a task title, Nyura's priority detector would spot the word "rush" and suggest high priority. That is the opposite of what you meant.

The fix is simple but important: the smart input engine now checks for negation phrases before assigning priority. "No rush," "not urgent," "pas presse," "kein Stress," and "sin prisa" all correctly map to the free_time priority level instead of triggering an urgent flag.

This applies across all four supported languages. The negation detection runs before the keyword matching, so compound phrases like "no rush but important" are handled correctly — the "no rush" cancels the urgency, while "important" still sets the priority to medium.

It is a small change, but it is the kind of thing that erodes trust if it keeps getting it wrong. You should be able to type naturally and trust that the app understands your intent, not just individual words.

Swiping a task card to complete or delete it always worked, but it felt a bit floaty. You would swipe, see the color change, and hope you had gone far enough. There was no physical feedback telling you "okay, you can let go now."

On iOS, Nyura now triggers a subtle haptic vibration the moment your swipe crosses an action threshold. Swipe right to complete? You feel a gentle tap when the green zone activates. Swipe left to delete? A slightly firmer tap signals the red zone. It is the same principle as the iPhone keyboard haptics — tiny, precise vibrations that make the interface feel tangible.

The implementation uses Capacitor's Haptics API, which maps to the Taptic Engine on modern iPhones. The feedback pattern varies by action type: a light impact for completion, a medium impact for deletion, and a notification-style buzz for snooze. This differentiation means you can learn to feel which action you are about to trigger without even looking at the screen.

For Android users, haptic support is coming in a future update once we finish testing across the fragmented vibration motor landscape. For now, this is an iOS exclusive that makes task management feel satisfyingly physical.

If you use Nyura's built-in timer to track how long you spend on tasks, you previously had to open the task detail view to see the running clock. That meant constantly tapping in and out just to check how much time had passed.

Now, any task with an active timer shows the elapsed time directly on its card in the task list. A small clock icon and a live-updating counter appear next to the task title, ticking up in real time. You can see at a glance which task you are currently timing and how long you have been at it — without opening anything.

The timer display is intentionally compact. It does not crowd out the task title or the priority badge. On mobile, it sits in the trailing edge of the card. On desktop, it appears inline after the title. The counter updates every second and uses a monospace font so the digits do not jump around as they change.

This pairs nicely with the estimate accuracy widget from the Productivity Dashboard. You can watch your actual time ticking and mentally compare it to your estimate, building better planning habits one task at a time.

Every release, we add more aria-labels and screen reader hints to make Nyura usable for everyone. This update continues that work with labels on the new haptic swipe zones, the live timer display, the smart input suggestion chips, and the priority detection indicators.

Screen readers now announce "Swipe threshold reached, release to complete task" when you cross the haptic boundary. The live timer is wrapped in an aria-live region that announces elapsed time every 30 seconds (not every second — that would be overwhelming). Smart input suggestions include their language context: "Suggested priority: high, detected from German keyword dringend."

We also fixed a handful of existing labels that were too generic. Buttons that said "Action" now say "Complete task" or "Delete task" specifically. The priority picker announces the current selection and available options. The task card swipe areas have explicit role descriptions.

Accessibility is not a feature you ship once and forget. It is an ongoing commitment, and each update brings us closer to an app that truly works for everyone, regardless of how they interact with their device.