by Marc Maset
One thing is clear when launching a Product: timelines will change. To handle all these changes with ease, MarsManaged now includes Dynamic Date parsing*. Just type the target date in your own words and MarsManaged will do the rest. Here it is in action: Here’s some examples of keywords you can use: today (i.e. Did John send …
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As I was working on cell badges indicating the number of to-dos pending for a given card it hit me… The approach I was taking was good, it gave relevant and timely information… But could be much better: what if the flag changes color when you have a to-do overdue, due today, tomorrow or soon? This …
Lots of progress the last couple of weeks, the first alpha should be ready… Soon? Hard to predict. What’s **not** hard to do is cover some of the features added last week. First, based on customer feedback, lots of work around Tags: – They can now include a template. If you create a Card …
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With MarsManaged edging closer to feature-complete, today I took some time to start iterating over color palette & icon concepts. First, lets talk about the palette: The premise of the app is that you’ll be as productive as future martian generations will be. With that in mind, when it comes to the color palette of …
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With its retirement approaching, here’s some trivia about NewsWave: ONBOARDING – 70% of users that downloaded the app ended up creating an account. That was a huge increase from the 20% I was seeing initially. Below the new onboarding flow that premiered with 2020.1 -old icon included-. FEEDS – NewsWave continuously monitored 4,382 feeds for updates. …
NewsWave, the twitter-style RSS news feed, will be sunset early next year. WHY? Even though it has very loyal users and both iOS and macOS apps reviewed very well -4.8 for iOS & 4.5 for macOS-, ultimately the recurrent revenue did not justify the time I’d need to invest in to further enhance it. Leaving …
One of the things I really enjoy about the Christmas break, is how much it contributes to looking at things with perspective. It may be the copious amounts of food, the change in schedule, the time to think… Whatever the reason, it really helps assessing how things have gone and where to go next. On …
Email, one of the most widespread technologies of all time, it has enabled so much… At the same time, it was designed a long time ago when the internet was very different. When I read about Basecamp’s attempt at improving email with ‘Hey’, to address many of its current shortcomings I was intrigued. I spend …
Back in 2016, when the idea that would become NewsWave was humming in my head, I was sipping my morning coffee while listening to an episode of Under the Radar. In that episode, Marco Arment and David Smith were discussing how they used servers to manage Overcast and Feed Wrangler. I was already considering using servers but after that I …
After shipping NewsWave for Mac, this last few weeks I’ve been playing around with two new NLP (natural language processing) projects. Each quite different from the other: The first is targeted at the corporate world, its focus is in identifying new trends and winning themes based on RFP’s (requests for pricing) submitted by clients. This …