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A watch face for me.
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The jface package contains two projects : • The JFace watch app and companion phone app • The JOrg todo app Both of these are included in this Android package for development simplicity, since I want both anyway and eventually JFace should ideally show data from JOrg. (if these were ever released on the play store, the package should be split into two apps sharing the same signature) JFace ===== JFace is a watch face app showing time in a clean and compact style, and is aware of the train lines and stations the user often takes, and shows the upcoming times of the relevant trains according to where the phone is and the day of the week. - Knows which trains at which stations are relevant. For example, it knows what are stations close to home the user often uses, close to work, as well as frequently used stations. - Using geofencing, it knows where the phone is right now. It uses this information, together with the day of the week, to choose what train schedule to show. - The watch face then permanently displays the three next trains for the two most relevant lines and directions. - The above is hardcoded in code. The phone will check and fetch data regularly, using various signals to check if the data is fresh enough and re-fetch it otherwise. It uses various websites to update its time tables. This means that when train companies update the schedule, there might be a few days when the watch is out of date, but since this doesn't happen often in Tōkyō that's fine and it fixes itself within a few days. In practice I haven't ever noticed this bug, so I don't really have an incentive to improve. - The watch face has controls to show next or previous departures easily, in case three in the future aren't enough or you want to check a past departure. It also has a debug tool right from the watch face to change which location the face should show, because geofencing isn't very reliable so this sometimes comes in handy, especially when you just arrived at a changing station and the phone has been sleeping in your pocket for a while. The Android Messages API also AFAICT has issues where it crashes and stops sending messages, and when it has this feature is useful. (of course this can be a bug in my code but I've looked pretty hard ; I'll continue debugging and try to find one, but if I'm right that it's actually a bug in google's code I'll never be able to fix it) - The companion app can set a message to show permanently on the watch face below the train times. It can set the color of the text line-by- line. This is useful to remember something important every time you look at your watch, or to just help your brain's memory. - The watch face has a feature where double-tap on the lower quadrant (the yellow one) will put up a notification on the phone with the time of the double-tap. This is the easiest way I know to remember some time when you really need to. - The watch face has a random feature where it can show a heart with some configurable text in it. I did that to wow my wife and it worked - The companion app has a bunch of debug tools. In particular the entire watch face can run inside a view in the app for debug and development ease. The companion app is the one setting up the geofences and receiving data, fetching the updated timetables, and communicating all of that with the watch. JOrg ==== An app to manage your TODOs. It has two main features that no other app that I know of has. - TODOs are splittable and splicable ad infinitum. You can set subtasks, then subtasks of subtasks, then subtasks of that, and so on and there is no limit. I fully expected most TODO apps to do this, but in actual practice I've never encountered one that allows more than three levels. - The app will use reminder notifications for a bunch of ACTUALLY USEFUL things. A large issue with most TODO apps is that friction adding a task will make you stop doing it, making the app eventually completely useless. So either you add details to the task as you register it and friction is too high and you stop using the app, or you don't and the app isn't very helpful because it can't remind you or help you managing TODOs for lack of knowlegde of the deadline, where to do it, the importance or other details. To address this, JOrg encourages you to add no detail at all at first. Then it will put up notifications later, at unpredictable and reasonably spaced out times, that encourages you to add the details. The notifications have the most common options to do it in one tap, and go to a very low friction UI if that's not enough. The idea is that you can keep the notification until such a time that you have downtime to fill it in. JOrg also avoids at all costs being obnoxious about it, if you don't want to add this info you can just dismiss the notification and it won't bother you with that any more. JOrg also tries to be smart with these notifications, and ask for the most relevant and most important data first at any given time. For example if a task hasn't been touched in a long while maybe it will remind you to split it up to make it easier to start. If it knows a task will take less than 5 minutes to complete and you should do it at home, it will sometimes suggest to do it right now when you're home. Aside from that, JOrg is a pretty normal TODO app. Maybe it's worth mentioning it manages to reduce the friction of adding TODOs, even on top of the notification system above, more than any other app I know of, for example by listening to both the keyboard and microphone at the same time to let you input in mixed style, which can help you write faster.
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