GLANCElauncher for Android
- This version of dayGLANCE includes several changes in preparation for the launch of a brand new Android launcher I've been working on. It's at the point where I'm looking for a limited number of testers (ideally with a broad range of devices). The launcher is well tested on my Samsung phone and tablet but could use some time on Pixels and other Android phones.
- GLANCElauncher works with dayGLANCE and lastGLANCE installed and puts your planner, chores and people at your fingertips without even opening the apps. It also has the features you would expect from an Android launcher, including gestures, an app drawer, Sesame-style search and voice commands.
- If you are interested, please email me at support@glance-apps.com, including the type of Android device(s) you will be testing it on. This testing is not through Google Play, you will need to sideload the launcher to participate. All I ask is that you provide feedback regarding your experience, so I can get the launcher ready for release.
- GLANCElauncher is and always will be a free app to enhance your dayGLANCE (and lastGLANCE) experience!
- The launcher will be ready for testing in a day or two.
Goals & Projects
- Projects can have a target date, like goals. It shows on the project card, in the day summary, in the weekly review's "Due this week", on the Goals tab badge, and on the Android and iOS Project widgets. Thanks @youli42.
- On the Goals tab, "+" asks whether to add a project to the goal on screen or a new goal.
- Project Planner: rename the selected task in place in the notes sidebar, drag the sidebar wider or narrower, and right-click a task for its menu.
- A project or goal without a linked note can create one in Obsidian from its note row.
- Ctrl/Cmd+K search finds goals, projects and areas, and opens above the Project Planner.
- The Refocus pill no longer floats over Goals & Projects.
Tasks
- Tag manager: "Manage tags…" at the foot of the tag filter lists every tag with its tasks, and renames, merges or removes a tag across every task.
- Link tasks from notes: "Copy link" in a task's menu, type
@@in notes to pick a task, and backlinks show the tasks that link to this one. A note that is only a task link opens that task. - Subtasks can be reordered: drag the grip, long-press it on touch, or focus it and press Up/Down.
- Tasks record when they were created, and show their created and completed dates. Tasks from before this update have no creation date.
- Double-click a card on the DAY or MULTI timeline to open its editor.
- Deadlines belong to Inbox tasks, and the dead ends around them are fixed: a deadline card on SCHED opens its task, and scheduling a task from the editor drops its deadline and priority, as every other way of scheduling does. Thanks @youli42.
- Deleting a project, goal or member clears the references to it, and a saved Inbox filter that names something deleted no longer hides your tasks. Thanks @youli42.
- Postpone works on all-day tasks created by lastGLANCE and other intents.
Large libraries and storage
- The Inbox stays quick with thousands of tasks.
- Saving writes only what changed, so edits no longer slow down as your data grows.
- Daily notes move from local storage to the device's database, freeing most of the space they took.
- The Recycle Bin can empty itself after 7, 30 or 90 days (Settings → General → Inbox). New installs start at 30 days; existing ones start off.
- Storage Breakdown forecasts when local storage will fill, and a warning appears at most once a week when it is close.
- A full store no longer crashes the app, and data that fails to load is no longer saved over with an empty copy.
- Auto-backup skips a backup when nothing changed, and lists backups without loading each one.
- Thanks @youli42 for the reports behind all of these.
Sync
- Editing one occurrence of a recurring task (move, Postpone, Skip, Delete, snooze) on two devices keeps both edits instead of one undoing the other.
- File sync skips a cycle's work when nothing changed. A file too large for the server now says so, and uploads wait before retrying while downloads continue. Thanks @youli42.
- Self-hosted Docker: uploads over 1 MB no longer fail, and large files with non-Latin text arrive intact.
Calendars
- Device calendars can all be hidden in Settings (Android). Thanks @andrewkolda.
- Calendar feeds show recurring events as the server defines them, including monthly on the 31st and "fifth Friday" rules.
- CalDAV tasks: completing a monthly or yearly recurring task moves it to its real next occurrence.
JOBO
- Today's Check offers "Skip this occurrence" for a recurring task you didn't start. Thanks Lcub3d for the design (#2057).
- Completing a recurring task now ends the Focus session it belongs to.
Phones
- Android: the keyboard no longer covers what you're typing in the Project Planner, the task editor, the goal and project forms, a project card's "Add task", task notes and subtasks, the Bucket List, Routines in Settings, and a new JOBO Do.
Other fixes and improvements
- Desktop: the summary pills along the bottom fold into a caret by the hour gutter, so they no longer cover tasks. Thanks @wjzijderveld.
- GLANCEahead shows the date in its heading.
- Bucket List: the notes editor opens at the note's full height.
- Desktop: Electron security update.