--- title: "What's new in Tidy: release notes" description: "Release notes for Tidy — the latest features and improvements across email, calendar, notes, tasks, files, contacts, and projects." url: https://www.tidy.engineering/releases last_updated: 2026-10-12T13:22:33.000Z --- Release notes # What’s new in Tidy Everything we’ve shipped, newest first. [Subscribe via RSS](https://www.tidy.engineering/releases/rss.xml). September 22, 2026 ## [Set up your first virtual employee](https://www.tidy.engineering/releases/first-virtual-employee) Set up a virtual employee with a role, clear instructions and the access it needs. The walkthrough follows a fictional project coordinator, Penny. It shows how to add a Linux workshop, choose Pi as the harness, connect through Tidy inference and deploy the employee. Setup waits are shortened and enrollment credentials are hidden. ## Choose where it works Start with a hosted employee if you don’t need a computer of your own. Use a workshop when the job needs local files, tools or a browser. The workshop is the machine; the employee keeps its identity, conversations and backlog when you move it. ## Choose how it uses a model Tidy inference uses Tidy’s models and managed access. Availability and usage follow your Tidy plan. A supported provider sign-in uses your provider account and its limits. An API key is a separate option, with API usage billed under that key. Available choices depend on the harness and provider. Use the sign-in controls for accounts and keys. Don’t put passwords in an employee’s instructions. ## Review before it runs Approve installation requests through Tidy’s identity-verification flow. Give the employee a narrow first task and review the result. A completed deployment is not the same as a completed assignment. Virtual employees require Plus. Model credits, hosted capacity and provider charges depend on your setup. The video uses an isolated test machine and fictional content. Follow the [step-by-step setup guide](https://www.tidy.engineering/virtual-employees) for chapter navigation and the full narration. See also: [Collaboration](https://www.tidy.engineering/collaboration) · [Plans](https://www.tidy.engineering/pricing) · [Request an invite](https://www.tidy.engineering/#waitlist). July 11, 2026 ## [Tidy on your wrist](https://www.tidy.engineering/releases/tidy-on-your-wrist) Your wrist is the fastest place to catch a thought before it slips away. The new Tidy watch companion for Wear OS turns a quick glance into real capture — no phone in your hand required. - **Capture with the crown.** Spin through your saved details on a ring dial and drop a new one in a couple of seconds — walking, cooking, or between meetings. - **Podcasts, right there.** Start, pause, and skip your personal podcast feed from the watch, and pick up exactly where you left off. Your watch and phone stay in step. (More on that in [Podcasts that remember where you stopped](https://www.tidy.engineering/releases/podcast-resume).) - **Dictate into your workspace.** Talk to your watch and the words land in Tidy, ready to become a note, task, or message. - **Recents and your queue.** Glance at what you touched last, and push something onto your queue without digging for it. It is the same private workspace you already use — see how it fits the rest of your day on the [households overview](https://www.tidy.engineering/for-families). July 8, 2026 ## [Tidy on your TRMNL e-ink display](https://www.tidy.engineering/releases/tidy-on-your-trmnl-e-ink-display) Put your Tidy day on a TRMNL e-ink display — calendar, tasks, inbox highlights, and project status, always on and glanceable. - **Your day at a glance.** Calendar, open tasks, and inbox highlights share one always-on screen. - **Read-only and private.** The display shows what Tidy already knows; nothing on the device can change your workspace. - **Pick your screens.** Daily summary, meeting brief, project status, and more — one plugin instance per screen. See also: [Set up the TRMNL plugin](https://www.tidy.engineering/docs/trmnl-guide) · [Join the waitlist](https://www.tidy.engineering/#waitlist). July 5, 2026 ## [Podcasts that remember where you stopped](https://www.tidy.engineering/releases/podcast-resume) Tidy turns your reading pile — articles, documents, long email threads — into a personal podcast you can listen to anywhere. Now it keeps your place for you. - **Pick up where you left off.** Start on your phone, continue on your watch, finish at your desk. Your position follows you across devices. - **Know what is done.** Finished episodes are marked complete and drop out of your up-next, so you are never stuck re-listening. - **Fresh when you restart.** Replay a completed item and it starts clean from the top, not halfway through. Listening on the move? The new [Tidy watch companion](https://www.tidy.engineering/releases/tidy-on-your-wrist) puts these controls on your wrist.