Today we're introducing two interconnected features that should enhance how you work in MakeTimeFlow. The Alignment Workspace brings the platform's aligned action framework directly into your daily workflow, while proactive Flow Guidance ensures you always have intelligent coaching at the moments when you need it most - when you're choosing what to do next. Together, these features solve one of the most common productivity traps: working hard on the wrong things. You can be incredibly efficient, checking off task after task, yet still feel like you're not making meaningful progress toward what truly matters. That ends today. ### The Alignment Workspace: Your Strategic Context, Always at Hand When you enter Focus mode (your Daily Command Central), you'll now see the Alignment Workspace - a beautifully designed, expandable interface that gives you instant access to four layers of strategic context: ![[Flow Alignment Workspace.png]] **Four Layers That Keep You Aligned:** 1. **Insights/Notes**: Your present-moment awareness and daily reflections. This is where you capture what's happening right now - breakthroughs, obstacles, insights. It's the foundation of your daily intelligence. 2. **Flow Guide**: AI-powered holistic guidance about your day and current flow state. Unlike traditional AI assistants that respond when asked, Flow Guide appears when it has genuinely useful guidance for you - and you decide when to view it. When new guidance is ready, the tab glows for 30 seconds and highlights, but you're in control of when to engage with it. 3. **This Week**: Your weekly success story and strategic direction. This keeps you connected to what you're trying to accomplish this week, ensuring your daily decisions ladder up to your weekly intentions. 4. **Smart Bets & Experiments**: Your ongoing commitments and areas of focus. These are the deeper patterns you've agreed to consider as you work - your current strategic bets on what will move you toward flourishing. **Designed for Minimal Cognitive Load:** The Alignment Workspace starts as a minimal pill with just tab buttons - no distraction, no visual clutter. Click any tab to expand and see that layer of context in a unified, seamless container. Click the active tab again to collapse it back to the minimal state. The visual design uses three tab states to guide your attention naturally: - **Outline**: Inactive tabs, ready when you need them - **Filled**: Currently active/expanded tab - **Highlighted**: Special state for Flow Guide when new guidance is ready (changes to filled when you view it) This isn't just a nice UI addition - it's the embodiment of MakeTimeFlow's core philosophy: aligned action. When you're about to start work, you can quickly check: "Why am I doing this task right now? How does it fit into my bigger picture?" The Alignment Workspace answers those questions instantly, across multiple time horizons. ### Proactive Flow Guidance: Your AI Coach, Right When You Need It The second major feature is proactive Flow Guidance - an AI coaching system that appears whenever you're NOT in active focus. This is the critical moment: you're between tasks, deciding what to do next. Should you keep pushing? Take a break? Switch contexts? Review your plan? **How Flow Guidance Works:** When you're in Focus mode but not actively working on a task, MakeTimeFlow analyzes your current situation: - What you've accomplished today - How much focused time you've logged - What time of day it is - Your weekly goals and commitments - Your recent patterns and progress Based on this holistic view, it generates contextual guidance that appears in the Flow Guide tab of the Alignment Workspace. You'll see the tab highlight and glow, signaling that new guidance is ready. Click when you're ready to engage with it - you're always in control. **The guidance might suggest:** - "You've been heads-down for 2 hours - consider a brief walk to process what you've learned" - "Great momentum on your weekly goal! You're 60% through your target with 3 days left" - "You planned to finish Task X today but haven't started - want to revisit your intention?" - "You're entering your peak focus time - this would be ideal for deep work on your priority project" **Privacy and Preference:** Flow Guidance is enabled by default, but you have complete control. Visit your preferences to toggle "Coach Accompaniment" on or off at any time. When enabled, the system creates guidance suggestions throughout your day at natural transition points, but you always choose when (or if) to view them. ### Quick Start from Calendar We've also added a small but delightful improvement: you can now start timers directly from your calendar view. See a time block? Just click the start button right on the calendar event to jump immediately into focused work. It's a tiny friction-reducer that makes the transition from planning to doing completely seamless. ![[Flow Start.png]] ## How This Helps You Level Up These features work together to create something we've been building toward since the beginning: a system that helps you work on the *right* things, not just work hard. The Alignment Workspace ensures that your strategic context is never more than one click away. You're no longer operating in the dark, hoping that your current task is the best use of your time. You can see, at a glance, how this moment connects to today, this week, and your deeper commitments. Proactive Flow Guidance ensures you never feel alone in the journey. At those critical decision points - when you're between tasks, when you're feeling stuck, when you're wondering what to do next - you have an intelligent coach who sees your whole picture and can help you make the choice that serves your deeper success. Together, they embody MakeTimeFlow's mission: helping you discover and achieve your deepest goals by managing your time and attention toward what truly matters. Not productivity for productivity's sake, but aligned action that moves you toward genuine flourishing. This is work that respects your humanity - your need for strategic context, your desire to make meaningful progress, and your capacity to make wise decisions when you have the right information at the right time. ## What's Next The Alignment Workspace and Flow Guidance represent a major step forward in bringing AI coaching into the flow of daily work. We're continuing to refine how guidance is generated, when it appears, and how it adapts to your unique patterns and needs. Your feedback matters enormously. As you use these features, pay attention to what helps and what doesn't. The goal is guidance that genuinely serves your flourishing, not just more noise in an already noisy world. **Released:** Friday, November 22, 2025