After over a year in the making – I’m excited to announce another signficant milestone: Starlight has gone gold! Its effectively ready to ship, what’s more, it’s also approved for sale by Apple — feels… pretty good With the app gone gold, I’m now switching to getting ready to ship! Among other things, that includes …
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And just like that, MarsManaged has reached Beta!
After 18 months of work… …I’m excited to announce that MarsManaged has reached a major milestone, it’s now in Beta. In the following weeks I’ll be opening up more testing seats, can’t wait for your candid feedback -and bug reports-! Until then, here’s a sneak peak of the latest version of the app. CARD’s section: …
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SideBar: The Silent Super-Feature
If done right you will almost never notice it.. It is however one of the most used parts of any app: the sidebar. With MarsManaged we’ve gone through quite a few iterations. Here’s a retrospective on the improvements made, and the thinking behind them. First Iteration (A): Although it was purely a SwiftUI non-functional prototype, …
MarsManaged July Update: New Palette, Icon, UX Improvements…
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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Schedule & re-Schedule any action with Dynamic Date parsing
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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Badges? Gray Badges? Color Badges!
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 …
MarsManaged March update, Alpha coming soon?
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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Expanding TO-DO views for MarsManaged
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 …
Working on all new TO-DO views for MarsManaged
This weekend I focused on the TO-DOS view of MarsManaged. Instead of a list, as I originally developed it, working on having multiple context-aware options. In the example below showing the ’Sort by Card’ one, seems to me this makes this view a lot more useful than a list? In light mode: And dark mode: …
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Iterating on MarsManaged Palette & Icon – First Round
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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