tldr: New about window, automatic backups, and minor UI fixes
Happy Tuesday!
This updates adds a few major features to improve the app's resilience:
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Backups Your data will now automatically be backed up every 15 minutes. Up to 3 backups are always kept around for the current day, and up to 10 backups from previous days are kept. This means if you use the app every day, you will always have backups from 10 days ago up until 15 minutes ago. You can load a backup with the File > Load Backup... menu item.
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A new about page with a manual auto-update check. Checking for an update in the about page will show any errors that happens during the process. (The app still silently automatically updates in the background when it can)
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Previously, an internal process could be leftover after exiting the app, causing problems in the future when launching the app again. It has been made much more resilient to problems and will quietly destroy itself if it finds out the app has exited. Additionally, the app always guarantees that it will never connect to any process leftover from previous instances.
Additionally, several small UI bugs have been fixed:
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The keybinding for submitting a new transaction has been changed to "alt+enter", and the "alt+enter" keybindings for moving around the transaction table has been removed. You can already freely move around the table with "alt+arrow keys".
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You can now navigate between pages: ⌘+1 shows the budget page, ⌘+2 shows reports, and ⌘+3 shows accounts.
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You can now freely move around the budget page with alt+arrow keys, just like the transactions table
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The icon is slightly larger to better match the expected icon size
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A few other minor UI bugs on the accounts page has been fixed
Feedback
You can email hello@actualbudget.com or talk on twitter.
There is also a trello board! Don't forget to go in there and vote on features to help me prioritize. You can even submit new features by sending an email to actualbot+zqswfceedrvjvlswl9ib@boards.trello.com, and they will show up on the board. The subject will become the cards title, and you can read more formatting options here.
The Future
Things might feel a little slow in the next month because I'm starting to put together the mobile app. Mobile is a crucial aspect of this workflow so I want to involve it early so technical and design decisions have mobile in mind. I will still aim for weekly releases, and you can see the planned features on the trello board.
Additionally, I have hired a designer for logo and branding work. Expect a visual refresh soon.