The Waiting queue

Where Haruno leaves an email, reply, invitation, post or folder change that a scheduled task prepared, until you approve, edit or discard it.

Mac appAvailableThe queue opens from a bar on the Scheduled screen. The two Settings switches about running in the background are in the advanced view only.
Windows appNot availableA scheduled task step that needs approval is refused, and the run says so.

The Waiting queue is where Haruno puts anything a scheduled task prepared that would reach other people. Nothing goes out until you say so.

What is held

A task can write an email or an invitation, but it cannot press Send for you. It prepares the item and stops. The item waits here.

What the task prepared	The button that approves it
An email	Send
A reply to a message	Send the reply
An invitation with guests	Send the invitation
Changes to a folder that syncs to a shared cloud location	Publish the changes
A post in a Discord channel	Post the answer

Anything else that would reach other people is left undone, and the run says so. Haruno does not hold it for later.

Two ways around the queue

A task you allowed to send on its own does not wait for you. You set that, task by task, on the setup sheet. And Try it… always holds everything, even for those tasks. See Scheduled tasks.

Where you see it

When something is waiting, you are told in five places.

A bar above the task list. It reads "1 thing waiting for you" or "3 things waiting for you", with Review. Press it to open the queue.
A number on the sidebar row. The Scheduled row shows it. It is the only number in the sidebar. It always means that you owe a decision. It goes away at zero.
A number on the Dock icon. It shows even when the window is closed.
A notification, once for each item. It names what is waiting. Tapping it opens that item. The notification has no Send button. You always see the recipients first. The Notify when an automation runs setting does not switch it off.
On the task itself. Its page says "1 item from this automation is waiting for you", with Review. A run row says Waiting for you.

The queue opens as a sheet called Waiting. Press Done to close it. The top of it reads WAITING FOR YOU and the count. With nothing there, it says Nothing is waiting.

Read a card

Each item is a card. It is built to answer one question first: who else will see this?

The first line says who finds out, and whether it can be recalled. For example, "Everyone in #site-team sees this. It can't be recalled."
The second line says nothing has happened yet, such as "Nothing has been sent yet."
Then come the item itself and its details: To, Cc, When, Where, Guests, Folder, Channel. A long message is shortened. Show the whole message opens it.
At the bottom, Prepared by names the task and the day. Click the task name to go to it.

An email reply can also sit in your Gmail drafts. The card then says so.

Approve, edit or discard

Read the card
Check the recipients. The card names people. It does not just count them.
Press the approving button
Use the main button, such as Send or Send the invitation. The card changes to Sending… (or Publishing…) with an Undo button.
Use the ten seconds
Nothing goes out for ten seconds. Press Undo in that time and it is not sent. After that, the item moves to RECENTLY HANDLED, marked Sent.

There is no extra "Are you sure?" box. The card is the check, and the ten seconds are the way back.

Edit fixes an item that is almost right. It is offered for an email, a reply and an invitation. It is not offered for folder changes or a Discord post.

For an email or reply, the sheet is Edit the email or Edit the reply. You can change To, Cc, Bcc, Subject and the message.
For an invitation, Edit the invitation lets you change the title, Where, Starts, Ends, the guests and the details. Each guest is emailed when you send. A guest you remove never hears about it.
A reply goes to whoever is on the thread. Gmail decides the final recipients, so someone already on it still receives the reply.

Discard throws the item away. It moves to RECENTLY HANDLED, and Undo there brings it back. The exception is folder changes. Discard… asks first, because the files Haruno added or changed go to the Trash and the folder goes back to what is in the cloud. Nothing is uploaded, and the discard cannot be undone.

If a send is refused before anything leaves, the card shows the reason and stays in the queue. If a send fails, the item moves to RECENTLY HANDLED as Didn't send, with the reason.

RECENTLY HANDLED keeps what is done, so the queue can reach zero. It says: "These are done. They've stopped counting."

Keeping Haruno running

Tasks run only while Haruno is running. Two settings in Settings ▸ General ▸ Automations decide what happens when you close the window. They are shown in the advanced view only, and both are on by default.

Setting	What it does
Run in the background	Keeps scheduled tasks running while the main window is closed. A menu-bar item keeps Haruno running. Turn it off, and closing the window quits Haruno.
Notify when an automation runs	Posts a notification when a task starts and when it finishes.

Closing the window keeps Haruno running only while a scheduled task is on, or a QuickBooks sync schedule is. With none on, closing the window quits Haruno.

The menu-bar item shows how many scheduled tasks are active, how many are running now, and each task's next run time. It has Open Haruno and Quit Haruno. It does not list waiting items. The Dock number and the notification do.

What to tell a customer

Haruno prepares the email or the invitation. The customer sends it. If the customer wants a task to send by itself, they can allow that for one task. It is off by default.

Who has it

The Waiting queue is in the normal view and the advanced view. The two settings above are in the advanced view only, but their default (on) applies in both.