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Battery Status Overview

Link April 18, 2021

Battery Overview List is an application for users with multiple Apple devices and who wish to keep track of battery charges across all those devices.

Using one device, let’s say the main, you can see the battery charge status information for the device that you are holding and all your other devices.

TableView Interactions:
The first table view item is the current device that you are holding. When you tap on the item itself you can see the charging log. But when you do a long press, you’ll get a context menu with more options to choose from.

The other table view items are for other devices that you own, where the app has been installed. When you tap on the item, an update request will be sent to the device to update itself for the battery charge value and status. But when you do a long press, you’ll get a context menu for other options like the charge history of the device or the option to delete the item itself.

Plug-In Interactions:
When you plug-in the device, the plug-in time and charge value will be noted. When you unplug the device, the unplug time and end charge value will all be combined with the plug-in values into a charge history item.
The other thing is at plug-in a battery charge view will be shown with the battery charge value. When it reaches 100% you’ll get an alert.

Homescreen Widget Support:

View the battery charges for all your devices on the homescreen without needing to start the application.

App Update, Apps

Do or Do Not

Link October 30, 2020

Track your day to day activities with Do or Do Not. Once you start using this application, you’ll not want to go back to a time without having it. Each activity or habit can be set with an icon to better identify and distinguish itself from other activities.
The activity itself has an occurrence count, for how many times a day you want to do this task. The number of icons represents this count. You simply tap on the icon to mark part of the activity as done and go back to what you were doing.

The activities will reoccur each day and new entries will be automatic created for it. You can easily set the status to non-active to skip a day.

Each activity has a timeline function which shows the daily results for each day it was active. This is easy to understand, and you can just scroll through it and to get a comprehensive overview.

In general, most applications offer the option to track habits, streaks, routines, etc. only have one type of entry. The thing you want to do and improve. Negative items and things you want to avoid will also be put on the same list. This can work for a small list of items, but for bigger lists, this could start to get confusing. Do you have to do this one item or was it the other way around?

Do or Do Not makes a distinction between activities that you want to do and activities that you want to avoid each day. These Do Not activities could be anything you can think of. From quit smoking to eating less junk food, if improving your health is what you are aiming for. Or from reducing the time watching YouTube videos to checking your Facebook account, when improving your productivity is what you want. Each time you withstood the temptation, you mark it and go back to what you were doing.

With the selection list function, you can easily switch between the positive Do activities and the negative Do Not activities.
Do activities should be tackled with a positive attitude towards completing them.
Do Not activities should be tackled as activities that you should be avoiding, or more to the point the temptations that you should be withstanding.
From a behavioral standpoint: it is important to make a distinction between what should be done and what shouldn’t be done.

Do or Do Not also support Widgets on your home screen from iOS 14 onwards. Widgets are a good way to remind you of the activities that you have set for yourself. Activities are represented by the icons you have selected for them. And the progress can be easily understood in one glance.

Apps

design, Habits, ios, productivity, task

Baby Vegetable

Link October 30, 2020

Baby Vegetable is a must-have app for a mother-to-be.

It will help you keep track of your baby’s growth, with a weekly growth estimate.

You’ll see an approximate growth in weight and length of your unborn child. This information is made more tangible by having every week estimate accompanied by a vegetable/fruit/seed image for comparison.

Using the new iOS 14 Widget function, you can see this growth information permanent on your home screen.

Apps

baby, children, ios, pregnancy

Just A Thought

Link October 30, 2020

Just A Thought is an application designed to help you keep track of all your thoughts and ideas.

All you have to do is start the app and input your thought (with keyboard or voice dictation) and press enter. Your thought entry will be automatically ordered by date, time, and the names that you mention. Additionally, you can also add text and emoji labels to your thought.

Just A Thought has various modes.
Search Mode is an easy to use search function using the labels that you have set to help you find the specific thought that you want. Just tap a tag or multiple tags and all the thought with the associated tags will be shown.

Tag Mode shows all the tags that you have made and all the thoughts that are linked to it.

Day Overview Mode lists all the days in which you have made a thought entry, another way to help you find the thought of interest.

Diary Mode, all the thoughts for a day will be combined into a diary entry for that day. This is an easier way to read those thoughts of yours. You can swipe left or right to go through the days or select the specific day that you want using the timeline function.

Edit Mode enables you to edit a thought text, and also add or remove labels linked to the thought. This can help you identify that thought at a later time in the future.

With iOS 14 there is also a Widget option that shows you a random thought that you have made that day.

Apps

diary, ios

Task Timer

Link September 8, 2020

What kind of application is this?

This is a timer application. All you have to do is: you create a task name, set a timer, and press start.
After the timer ends you will be prompted to answer if you accomplished the task or not? How it went (well or not) and what you could do differently the next time.

What is the purpose and goal of this application?
The ultimate goal of Task Timer is to help you improve focus and results in the tasks that you have set for yourself.
With repeated usage, the answer that you gave at the end timer session, you will be reminded of how the previous timer session went.
If for example, you wrote that you got distracted by something, you know what you should look out for this time.

Is there anything else?
Task Timer will also log all your end session answers to each task. With the History option, you will get an overview of the task you have set for yourself and how you can make an improvement to it.

You can choose from various countdown timer displays.
As a parent, when you put your child on a time-out, he or she has something to look at.
As a user, it’s always nice to have something to look at when you get distracted and Task Timer will put you back on the right track.

Apps

ios, productivity, self improvement, time

DoTask Manager

Link June 21, 2020

DoTask lets you combine all your Calendar Events and Reminders into one place. Designed for easy scrolling through all the events for the day and lets you focus on what needs to be done. When a reminder is done or an event is over you can mark it as complete or snooze it by postponing it for a day. Visually see a task being completed and get motivated to clear everything for the day.

DoTask Manager has 5 different focus fields for all your Calendar Events and Reminders.
1./ Today, this list all the Events and Reminders for Today.
2./ Tomorrow, this list all the Events and Reminders for a day.
3./ This Week, this list all the Events and Reminders for a week.
4./ Next Week, this list all the Events and Reminders for a week.
5./ Reminders Only, this list all Reminders (including ones without a due date).

DoTaks Manager uses the events data from the default Calendar and Reminder Application on your device. This means when you create a calendar event with DoTask Manager the event will show up in the Calendar app and vice versa. Alarms and notifications will only go through the default Calendar application on your device (no double notifications for the same event).

Apps

calendar, design, ios, productivity, reminder

Memento Mori

Link March 6, 2020

The Memento Mori Application aims to put your mortality in view. Celebrating your birthday is something that everyone does, but few people spend time thinking about when they will die.

Our time is limited. Memento Mori gives you an overview of the time that you have left to live. See how much time has passed by and be aware of what you have been doing with it. Your lifetime activity and achievement at one glance in the palm of your hand.

Avoid wasting your time doing useless stuff. Do things that matter and that is important to you.

Why this app?
Compliance with your daily life is one of the biggest causes of losing out on your hopes and dreams.
Who hasn’t fallen victim to procrastination? Who hasn’t been guilty of procrastination?
I don’t feel like doing this today, I’ll postpone it to tomorrow.
I am busy now and have other things to do, I’ll skip it to another day.
Then before you know it too much time has passed by and you have lost focus towards your hopes and dreams. The thing that matters to you the most in life.

The questions?
Ask yourself the following question: what are your hopes and dreams in life? A thing that you crave for in life, a thing that’s always on your mind (the last thought at night and the first thought when you wake up), a thing that can’t be described in one word. The core of your being, the passion that drives you, the motivation that pushes you forward.

When you know this answer, that’s a good thing and you should celebrate this fact. If you’re not sure, try to dig deeper until you find the answer.

The next question you should ask yourself is: what are you willing to do and risks to take for making it come true.

The “What ifs”?
It’s a hard question to answer, isn’t it? What are you willing to do or what risk are you willing to take? What if you change the situation and setting to: you only have one day to live. Will you still be doing the things that you would normally be doing daily? Going to work, checking your social media account, spending your time posting/reading/watching media content.

What if you only have one week to live? What would and could you do? Start simple by defining an important moment or highlight for the week. (what could be the most important moment of the week). From here ask yourself what steps you could take towards making this moment come true.

What if you only have one year to live? How would you be spending your time? Do you enjoy your job and would you still be working in the same place until the end? What added value do all your social media account have in your life? Looking at the time spend on it, what else could you do with that same time.

What if you only have a couple of years left to live? (What would you do then?) What is important to you and is worth spending more time on. What activities consume a lot of time, but can be considered as not important at all. Reorder your priorities in life.

Avoid wasting your time doing useless stuff. Do things that matter and that is important to you.

Apps

AppStore, Motivation, New App, productivity, self improvement

Video Vault

Link March 4, 2020

VideoVault is a time capsule for your videos. A prime example is: it records a video about your new year’s resolution, you set a lock-date, when the times comes you’ll get a notification about it, launch the app and see whether you have kept up with your new year’s resolution or not.

VideoVault can also be used to increase your resolve and productivity. At the beginning of the week, record a video about what the goal or accomplishment you are aiming for. Set a lock-date till the end of the week. Get a notification and review the video. Record a new video for next week or set a new lock-date for the already recorded video.

The main point about VideoVault is rewatching your recorded videos of what you want to achieve and keeping it fresh in your mind. Most people tend to forget. Forgetting the smaller things in your daily life up to the bigger things, like your hopes and dreams.
When you were a child, what was your dream of what you would be when you grow up? Did it come true or have you given up on it?
The main enemy is compliance with a routine of doing things, without spending too much time thinking about why and how. Losing focus on what’s important to you, while going through your day to day life. And before you know it a week… a month or a year has gone by.

There is a difference between remembering what you want and seeing yourself saying what you want. The human mind and memory processing is all about optimum efficiency. Use it or lose it.
When you first learn a skill, all your attention has to be on the task before you would master it. Think of how many hours and energy it took for you to learn a second language or playing a musical instrument when you were a child. While you were practicing and using the skill every day, you’ll have no problem performing the task. But the moment you stop for a certain time… it will be harder to pick it up again.

Special features:
VideoVault has a lot of guided and structured questions that help you delve deeper into your goal or accomplishment aims. So every recording about a topic will be different compared to the previous one.
With the build-in speech recognition, all your answers will be automatically transcribed and ordered into an easy to read question-to-answer list.
You can use this question-to-answer list to directly view that specific video segment, no more scrubbing a video to the segment you want to review.

Apps, Uncategorized

AppStore, ios, Motivation, self improvement

Pixel Weather

Link November 29, 2019

PixelWeather shows your local weather information in a clear and easy to understand way.

At the top part of the screen, the information is depicted in pixel animation for rain, snow, wind, lightning, and more.

At the bottom part of the screen, there is a text representation for the weather information about location, temperature, wind, and sunset plus sunrise.

Additionally, PixelWeather also contains a game that links your local weather information to it.

When it rains outside in the real world, the in-game weather also shows rain.

When it freezes below 0 degrees, you’ll get a buff to your ice damage skills.

When there is lightning, there’s a buff to lightning skills. Or during hot summertime a buff to fire skills and a debuff to ice skills.

Apps, Games

SpriteKit, sprites, Video Game, weather

MReader

Link September 18, 2019

Read and reread your favorite Manga, Manhua, Manwa, Webtoon, and Comic where ever you are without worrying about the internet connection or data usage.

MReader enables you to create a custom zip file with the storyline that you like and often read. Remove the annoying filler pages at the beginning or end of each chapter. Or combine chapters for a smoother reading experience. No more switching between chapters in a story arc.

The zip file can be stored right on your device or on your preferred cloud storage option. Share your created zip file with your friends or the different devices that you own.

Apps

AppStore, collection, ios, iPad, manga