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I submitted Goalbook 1.6 a couple of days ago. A few weeks late on my schedule, but its finally here. It always amazes me how much work I need to do in the final stages of development. I always find my self thinking its ready for a final build but then I always discover stuff that needs to be done before I can send the new update to Apple.
Here’s a quick overview of what’s included in the new update.
NEW
- Whole new edit view
- Sub goals
- Notes
- Adding new goals happens in edit view
- Goal list shows category for each goal
Added a new straight strikethrough for goals with 3 lines.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that caused the keyboard to disappear while adding/editing categories in iOS 4.2
- A lot of other small fixes and tweaks.
Here's a screenshot of the old(left) and new(right) edit view.
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In
the last post I mentioned sales declined dramatically, after appearing
as a featured app for some time in the App Store. I submitted Goalbook
1.5 a couple of days ago and I hope to boost sales a little bit and
cover some of the essential things people had been requesting.
One of the things that had a negative impact on the sales and
reviews was the lack of functionality. When I started developing
Goalbook, I set out two goals for myself:
1. Create a gorgeous looking app.
2. Simple functionality, no hassle.
The big difference with a normal todo list is mostly due to design and
functionalities like: sharing, viewing other peoples goals, images,
tweets and a map with goal locations.
But after launch it quickly came clear the functionalities didn’t live up to people’s expectations.
These high expectations are mostly due the looks and feel of the app and my wrongly formulated app store description
which stated goalbook offered tracking functionality, but this tracking
was only limited to a completed and not completed goal state. I should have made clear Goalbook offers simple functionality for keeping goals.
I got a lot of positive reactions. Some ...
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