During development I kept deleting and reinstalling the app. This caused a problem. @keepdates.app relies on its own calendar it kept creating a new one on each install and had no idea that a previous calendar was already created by it. 🤖 (1/3)
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Took a bit to work out some of the kinks, but a new update for @keepdates.app is now out 🚀
Fixes a few bugs, adds some new customizability and adds some visual improvements - tinting of the contact details based on avatar color being my favorite 🤩
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Initially, I thought people kept their contacts like me, with all the information for all their friends and family (including birthdays, anniversaries and other dates). (1/4)
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The core idea for the app was to make it behave as if it was part of iOS.
Like how iOS creates a "Birthdays" calendar when you add a birthday to a contact, and then shows a reminder on the day (or before). 🎂📆 (1/4)
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As a bonus- it adds a nice overview page for each contact, with a list of all the contact’s dates and per-contact customization controls. 🎛️
Also uses the dominant color from the avatar for tinting the screen background ☺️
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The app started as a single list of all upcoming dates (for the next year), listed chronologically. The simplest way of displaying the information. (1/3)
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Unlike the initial macOS version of @bluestodon.app that took over a week to get reviewed and approved, the new update for @keepdates.app got approved in record time - I only submitted it for review a few hours ago - and it's already available 🤯
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🎉 KeepDates 26.4 is out!
Delete dates from the app, per-widget today toggle, calendar event anchor fixes, duplicate event cleanup, limited contacts, nicknames, diagn
https://keepdates.app/changelog.html#26.4
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🎉 KeepDates 26.5 is out!
Today-only widget, small widget rotation with interactive chevrons, "Your Anniversary" notifications, widget deep link fix, What Changed sort.
https://keepdates.app/changelog.html#26.5
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🎉 KeepDates 26.6 is out!
Reach Out contact actions, Contact Spotlight widget, Handled occurrence tracking, widget checklists with progress counters.
https://keepdates.app/changelog.html#26.6
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