::Build log

New builds, every week.

I'm building DueHalo because I needed it, and it keeps getting better. Here's every version so far. The full patch notes and the blog are for members, and what's next stays a secret for now.

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::Every version

Every version

  1. Up nextThe Mega Bar, and more. Members first
  2. v0.4.4Ember: tuck a halo into a small glowing block that calls you back.
  3. v0.4.1Knows when to stay out of your way.
  4. v0.4.0A full Mac app, with a much faster way to add anything.
  5. v0.3.2Smoother countdowns, everywhere on screen.
  6. v0.3.1Fixed a calendar bug that made every click do nothing, and cut CPU use by about 4x.
  7. v0.3.0Smarter about which deadlines really matter.
  8. v0.2.0A new look, built for true black screens. First public build.
  9. v0.1.0The first native Mac app. Reminders that stay until they're done.
  10. Prototype 2A full screen nag, then a bar. The bar stuck.
  11. Prototype 1An AppleScript dialog that came back every 15 minutes until I did the thing.

::Coming to the beta

What's on the way.

Coming soon

Takeover

For when ignoring it isn't an option.

Coming soon

Triage

For the night you miss one anyway.

Coming soon

Focus Sense

Knows when you're actually doing it.

In the works

Heat Map

See the crunch coming days before it hits.

In the works

Task Map

Everything on your plate, connected.

Beta members get every one of these first.

::Stories

What building it taught me.

Story

Make it in my face

It started as a 5 pm dialog on my own Mac that refused to go away. It worked for one day, and it taught me the first rule of the whole project.

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Full screen, then a bar

Two prototypes in one evening. The first one blocked me just like the dialog did. Three minutes later it turned into the thing DueHalo is today.

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0.3.1: every click did nothing (an ISO 8601 story)

One night every click in the app silently did nothing. The cause was one setting on my Mac that I never would have guessed.

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Missing a deadline should look like missing a deadline

At 11:10 PM I missed a task and the app made it look calm. That was the wrong call, and fixing it changed how the whole app thinks about being late.

Read the full story · members

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