diff --git a/KisaniCal/Views/TodayView.swift b/KisaniCal/Views/TodayView.swift
index 83a5970..d5b402d 100644
--- a/KisaniCal/Views/TodayView.swift
+++ b/KisaniCal/Views/TodayView.swift
@@ -1778,18 +1778,18 @@ struct NLTaskField: UIViewRepresentable {
             }
             return
         }
-        // Avoid clobbering the live UITextView (and the cursor) when the displayed
-        // text already matches the binding.
-        if tv.textColor == .label && tv.text == text && editing { return }
-
+        // Always rebuild the attributed text so token highlights stay live as the
+        // parser updates highlightRanges on each keystroke. (A fast-path early-return
+        // here previously suppressed highlighting while editing.)
         let sel = tv.selectedRange
         let attr = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
         let full = NSRange(location: 0, length: attr.length)
         attr.addAttributes([.font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 18), .foregroundColor: UIColor.label], range: full)
+        let highlight = UIColor(AppColors.accent)
         for r in highlightRanges where r.location + r.length <= attr.length {
             attr.addAttributes([
-                .backgroundColor: UIColor.systemBlue.withAlphaComponent(0.13),
-                .foregroundColor: UIColor.systemBlue,
+                .backgroundColor: highlight.withAlphaComponent(0.18),
+                .foregroundColor: highlight,
             ], range: r)
         }
         tv.attributedText = attr