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my mac app didn't open at all for 4 months and i had no idea

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there's no changelog for PopTask anywhere, the app store "what's new" box is read by roughly nobody, so from now on every update lands in this thread, small ones as replies, bigger ones as their own post

what's shipped since july:

👉🏽 the app learns your times now, correct a suggested time once and it remembers for that kind of task, so if your gym is an evening thing, "gym at 6" starts meaning 6 pm for you .. weekdays and weekends stay separate

👉🏽 it picks up your shorthand and your usual typos too, and a name it doesn't recognise gets left exactly as you typed it 👨🏻‍💻 all of that follows you between iphone, ipad and mac through your own icloud

👉🏽 a speed pass, so the suggestion card lands while you're still typing instead of after you stop

👉🏽 and one i'm not proud of .. the mac app wasn't launching at all on MacOS Sonoma, had been that way since april, and i only found out because someone sent me a crash log instead of deleting the app [ a big shoutout to Chris 🏆 ]

 

what's next: 

at launch someone here [ narek ] made the point that voice input is useless if your hands and eyes are both busy, because you can't check what it heard .. it should read the task back, that's on the list

also on it: microsoft calendar, and proper two-way google calendar

 

which of those three would you actually use?
or is there something more obvious i'm missing 👀
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The shorthand and typo learning sounds surprisingly useful. Does the work completely on device through iCloud or is any of that processing hapening is the cloud?

 good question 👀 two separate things here so let me split it ..


the learning itself (your shorthand, your typos, what time "gym" usually means for you) happens on device and syncs only through your own icloud, so that part never touches a server, mine or anyone else's

separately, when PopTask reads what you typed to figure out the date and time, that runs on device on newer OS versions, and falls back to a cloud step on older ones .. the learned corrections are what get fed into that step locally, not sent up

so: learning stays on device + icloud, corrected text CAN go to the cloud depending on your OS version

I would use Google Calendar first. two way sync is one of those things you dont appreciate until it breaks.

For me voice would win. if i am walking or cooking, i don't really want to look at a screen just to confirm what i said.

I agree with Narek on voice. if i am using voice because my hands are busy, making me check the screen afterwards kind of defeats the point.

i would probably do Google Calendar next. once tasks and calendar start talking to each other properly, the time suggestions become way more useful.

The Mac issue makes me wonder do you have any monitoring now that would catch something like that before a user has to report it?

i would actually vote for voice before the calendar integrations. a task app that works properly when i am away from my desk feels more differentiated than another calender integration.

i am torn between voice and Google Calendar. but i am curious what you are personally leaning toward if you could only ship one next which would you pick?