After eleven months, TrackLab has reached 1.0.0. The whole app has been redesigned, and it finally explains itself — there’s a user guide inside, in English and Russian. I also ran my first real experiment on myself: a month of daily stretching, 33 cm → 26 cm, which taught me as much about what’s wrong with TrackLab as about my hamstrings. Below: what’s in the release, what that experiment exposed, and what comes next.
Continue readingThe freshly released version v0.7.0 is the closest to what I wanted to build from the start. This version brings two important features: Experiments and a fully customizable dashboard.
Continue readingTrackLab 0.6.0 has been released, bringing the feature I’ve been planning the longest: Rules. It’s hard to reach your goals without a structure your routine is based on. Now you can create rules in TrackLab and track how consistently you follow them.
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Finally, after a five-month break, I finished version 0.5.0 of TrackLab and then released three important patches 0.5.1, 0.5.2 and 0.5.3! This version has a totally new approach to metrics — you can now create your own. Additionally, you can create lists with any items you want. You can also link metrics and lists to an action or a tag. More details below.
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I collected real use cases of TrackLab. As I’m the only user, all these cases are mine 😁. The thing is that TrackLab is a 100% offline app. That means I’m not able to see the stats on how many users there are.
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I already answered the question Why should you try tracking your time?. It was a general reasoning about tracking benefits. Now I want to tell about people who, in my opinion, would be interested in those benefits.
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Versioning is a good way to let your users or other developers know what to expect from updates to your project.
Although each developer is free to choose their own approach, there is a popular versioning standard – SemVer. It’s easy to understand and use.
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A new patch for TrackLab is ready! Version 0.4.1 includes several improvements and bug fixes to make time tracking more convenient and stable. With this patch, I can finally focus on developing the next big update. Read on for the full patch notes.
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Development of TrackLab version 0.4.0 is over. The release has four major features:
Before I started developing my tracking app, I asked myself one simple question: “Why should anyone track their time?” Without a clear answer, any further development would be pointless. Here’s what I found.
I’m interested in the field of self-development because I always struggle with it. I procrastinate a lot. Sometimes I can get over it, but eventually, I return to my old behavior. And of course, when you’re interested in something, you consume a lot of related content. Have you ever watched a video about procrastination to procrastinate? That’s about me.
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