by Marc Maset
‘Creating a future for Mars!’ ‘Unleashing a new golden age for humanity!’ This weekend I’ve been working on onboarding CARDs for MarsManaged. What’s that I hear you ask? Let me explain… When the user first opens the app these onboarding CARDs show how to use it in a subtle way, allowing users to become familiar quickly …
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I did a post a while back about how to enable undo functionality when using CoreData. It continues to work great for AppKit or UIKit apps, but what about if you’ve adopted SwiftUI as Apple is suggesting we do? Well… unfortunately the previous approach won’t work quite as well. After a few hours working this, …
Back in Sunny California! Portugal was great: the food, the weather, the people… In between hikes, museums and reading breaks I’ve done quite a bit of progress on MarsManaged: it’s looking better and better. Every day a bit more polished and user feedback is helping raise the bar big time. Here’s how the main screen looks like now: …
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In the previous post I discussed the addition of Dynamic Date parsing to MarsManaged. In a nutshell: actions containing certain keywords (i.e. today, tomorrow, next month) are automatically converted to target dates. High level, the flow is as follows: Nice right? Well, I quickly discovered an unexpected surprise: the TextView format was being lost when the keyword …
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Empty states. Or to put it another way, what do you show when a view is devoid of any content? This is an area that not all apps account for. The ones that do though, not only improve the end-user experience but also feel more… complete? Here’s some examples of empty states. 1. NetNewsWire (a great RSS …
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If you’re creating a macOS app, the About screen is that place where you get to “sign” your work. It is also the place where most developers will link to their personal web, thank contributors, etc. For me, it’s one of the areas I work on last… When I get to it, it always feels great. …
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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 …
Another weekend, another set of improvements for MarsManaged. This time, I focused on adding an autocompletion feature for Tags. Let me provide some context first… In MarsManaged, cards may be linked to one or multiple tags. In the below example, the “Welcome to MarsManaged!” card is linked to the tag “Samples” (yellow arrow). To link one …
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As easy as 1, 2, 3. Or is it? 1. Create a new SwiftUI file called PreferencePane and add the desired view within a TabView: import SwiftUI struct PreferencePane: View { var body: some View { TabView { …
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This weekend I continued working on the TO-DO area, specifically on bringing the context-aware functionality of Cards to “Target Date” & “Last Modified” views. As most of the code complexities were sorted last weekend, this one I did quite a bit of progress. Here’s the latest: “Sort by Target Date” view: “Sort by Last …