News & Updates — UI

Enhancements / Other Improvements Significant updates to drive OSX compatibility (Life Journal will be coming to Mac OSX shortly!) Used UTF-8 format when exporting data, saving and loading templates and loading prompts An updated Prompts file (UTF8 format) Minor UI improvements related to layout and presentation of information Performance improvements when loading the Location Viewer Optimizations to rendering entries selected in the Timeline view Multiple, minor enhancements to performance during initial loading of entries Minor, proactive code enhancements to improve robustness and reliability Bug Fixes Identified and fixed a bug that could cause the app to crash when closing the Location Viewer while...

Enhancements / Other Improvements Added hints to the counts displayed in the status bar (search queries) Image attachment file selection dialog now shows all supported image formats as the default - so you can pick from JPG, PNG or BMP formats. Improved the search and display algorithm so that the first entry in the Timeline (search results) always gets selected and rendered. Autosave of entries now triggers every 20 seconds. Entries also get auto saved when you change entries in the timeline or when you close the app. Minor improvements to the performance of loading entries. Bug Fixes Rolled back one...

New Features Improved Timeline View: While working on the mobile version of the application, I discovered a mechanism via which the timeline view can be more dynamic in its presentation. I have integrated that capability in the Life Journal desktop app. Now, the Title, Short Description and Tag list all align to the left edge of the Timeline if there is no image and correctly next to the image if there is one. Enhancements / Other Improvements Minor improvements to the performance of loading entries. Autosave of entries now triggers every 30 seconds (instead of every 10). Entries also get auto...

New Features The performance of the application has been significantly enhanced. Everything will be a bit faster now. The initial load of your entries should be almost twice as fast as before. If you want to make it faster than that, we have introduced a switch on the Settings->Miscellaneous options to hide the progress bar while loading. With all of the optimizations and the switch turned on, it takes less than 2 seconds to load over 650 entries! Weather now contains information about Ozone, "Feels Like" Temperature, Precipitation Type (Rain, Snow, Sleet) and Precipitation Probability. You can view all these...