Simply Remember It 2.2.7: Catching Up on Sharing

This update started when I realized if I tapped on a task in my widget to open my app... but then a kid came and I force closed my app to deal with it later the log was kept. I'd then have to go looking for the task to delete but it would be harder to find because it was no longer due. Despite this being functionally expected, I realized it could work better...

Logged Tasks

To get around this I treated logging like what I already do when we add a new task and switched to using a draft. It's created but nothing is truly saved until you hit save. Thus it stays on the widget and on Today, if due, and nothing is changed until you choose to hit save. It's a small thing, but something I wanted to get right.

Multiple Categories

You can still default new tasks to a single category or no category at all... but the tasks themselves can now be assigned to multiple categories. I realized that despite the system working fine people may have want a task under multiple categories (say like home and kids for example) and may want to engineer their own default views with grouping, sorting, and filtering. Now you can.

Sharing Records

When looking over my code commits I remembered the cross-device syncing I'd already cleaned up in Simply Customize It where deleting a shared item on one device could crash the app on another once the data synced. That had already been shared with my other apps including Simply Remember It, but I realized I should check for the same issue with shared tasks between multiple people. While there, I also went through a few other things that weren't working the way they should have been like...

• History wasn't always coming along when you shared a task, so the other person could see something that looked brand new even if you'd been logging it for months.
• Updates from people you share with weren't always showing up on their own either, so you'd have to reopen the app or pull to refresh to catch anything new.
• And if a task stopped being shared, it could stick around as a copy on the other person's device that never updated again.

All of this was cleaned up.

And Beyond

While working on the above I also noticed several other things including fixing up the grouping Share By to separate your shared task from your private ones, confirming deletion when a task has several logs, and fixing the sort and filtering persistence on both the iPad and Mac.

This was a smaller update in the sense that nothing too major got added, but it touched more than I expected once I started pulling the thread. If anything still feels off, I'd genuinely love to hear from you.

— Kyra 💕