As of today, I’m giving up on my half-baked plans to make consumer software. I just took Retrospective Timelines off of the App Store and I don’t plan on renewing my Apple developer account. There are a number of reasons I’m making this decision. I’ll try to list a few here. While I enjoyed the…
I am beginning the planning process for Retrospective Timelines 2.0. Below I listed some of the areas that I want to focus on this summer. My hope is that the latest round of updates to SwiftUI, iOS 14, and iPadOS 14 will enable me to make significant improvements to the app. I have only just started to learn about the new features, so I do not know…
A new version of Retrospective Timelines is rolling out now. This version adds a handful of new features There is also a new bonus feature on the Event Detail screen. Now that the app supports multiple format types for dates and durations, I decided it would be awesome to switch between these with a simple…
Version 1.0 of Retrospective Timelines was written completely in SwiftUI and while I’m excited to keep working in SwiftUI, there were some issues and limitations that it imposed on my app. You can’t really talk about SwiftUI without someone pointing out that it’s not “ready” to be used in production yet. I mostly disagree with…
A new update is rolling out now with improvements to the data entry screens for Timelines and Events. These screens have been completely rewritten to support user interface features common to iOS apps.
While working on my goals and my annual theme for 2020, I decided that I’m going to give time tracking another try. When I was working full time as a consultant I used to track all of my time because the companies I worked for mostly billed by the hour. When I started Radical Application…
One of the core features of Retrospective Timelines is the ability to share an Event as an image. I’m working in SwiftUI on this project so my first attempt was to see if I could render SwiftUI views as images. Last June Erica Sadun wrote a post about rendering SwiftUI on macOS Mojave that gave…
The core purpose of Retrospective Timelines is to help you keep track of the most important dates in life. I use it to keep track of my sobriety, places I have lived, and my professional life. I’ve also found it helpful as a tool to track less emotional data such as the computers and devices…
Retrospective Timelines version 1.0.2 is now available on the App Store. This update adds a new Filtering feature to the list of Events on your Timelines. Filter out End Date Records when working with date ranges, and also filter the list to only show Ongoing Events. This version also fixes a bug that could cause…
The first app update for Retrospective Timelines is hitting the App Store today. Features New color options when sharing an Event as an image. Small changes
Just over a week ago I launched Retrospective Timelines in the App Store. In fact, “launched” may be too strong of a word. I released the app on Sunday Dec 1, 2019 with little fanfare and even less of an idea of what I was doing. Over the months leading up to version 1.0 I…
I’ve had a longstanding issue in Retrospective Timelines. I have a simple EditButton on the list of timelines in my app. This button toggles the list into edit mode where the user can perform several actions. The issue was that when I closed the modal view with a button, sometimes the EditButton on the list…
