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Adjustments and Improvements Galore in 1.14.2

Posted on by TheJoeFin

After a long delay Ink Calendar 1.14.2 has been submitted and accepted to the store. This update brings lots of little changes to Ink Calendar which should improve the experience for all users. The change list is long with this update:

  • Tap to select a block of ink.
  • Current day is highlighted in the Year View.
  • The different view buttons are no longer in a menu when the window is wide enough.
  • Appointment time recognition has been improved.
  • Improved the look of the appointments on Month and Week view.
  • Free or tentative appointments are now transparent with colored text.
  • More space on mobile landscape orientation.
  • Bug fixes.

Let me know what you think!

On another note, I am working on updating my art for the Microsoft Store page. If you are an artist and use Ink Calendar please reach out I’d love to feature your art!

-Joe

Enjoy Ink Calendar in your own language

Posted on by TheJoeFin

In the new update 1.14 Ink Calendar will use the language settings you have set in Windows 10. The month names, days of the week, and day abbreviations will all be translated automatically by Windows.

Next up I will be translating the text in the app itself. All the button text will soon be translated with the help of anyone I know who speaks that language! If you’d like to help translate then email support@inkcalendar.com

As always, thank you for using Ink Calendar

-Joe

Little improvements and fixes for 1.13

Posted on by TheJoeFin

I have just submitted an update to Ink Calendar. In this update there are a few small features and some bug fixes. Here is the feature list:

  • Pick the default background
  • Jump back to the previous view button
  • First time users will see some settings to start
  • Titles on printouts

The major bug fixes are:

  • Fixed where multi-day month appointments got shown in the margins sometimes
  • Now the background image changes more efficiently

 

This wasn’t a huge update, but all of the features were requests. Let me know what you think!

 

Thanks again for using Ink Calendar!

-Joe

Quick update to 1.12

Posted on by TheJoeFin
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This week I was busy and insipired by the reception of Ink Calendar by this Reddit post I decided to push out a quick update. In update 1.12.2 I address a few bugs and a couple new features. Nothing huge, but little things which make the overall experience better.

New Features

  • Outline around the current day in Month View
  • Clear selected ink when adding an appointment
  • Acrylic background. (not supported on mobile, sorry ☹)

Bug fixes

  • Midnight Week View crash
  • Week View background crash
  • Text wrapping in settings on mobile

 

Let me know what you think! Thanks again for using Ink Calendar,

-Joe

Drag, Quick Actions, and more coming soon

Posted on by TheJoeFin

The latest update to Ink Calendar has been submitted to the store. Version 1.12 brings a few big features and improvements all around.

Key New Features

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  • Drag selected ink around the calendar.
  • Preform common ink related tasks from the new Quick Ink Actions menu.
  • Add events from ink on the Week and Day views.
  • From the right click menu view all the calendar events on a day.
  • Jump to the week view or day view of a day from the right click menu.
  • View events on the Week view

Improvements

  • Many bug fixes.
  • Improved the tiny app icons.
  • Added the user accent color throughout Ink Calendar.
  • Adding an event from ink works better and more reliability.
  • Event text is white unless the event is too bright then the text is black.

Those are all of the main changes. I’ll be sharing more screenshots and GIFS of all these new features in action.

Thanks for using Ink Calendar

-Joe

Progress report on 1.11

Posted on by TheJoeFin

I am making good progress on version 1.11 of Ink Calendar. This update will bring a few key new features I’ve been eager to release.

  1. Better Mobile UX
  2. Jumplists
  3. Calendar Events on Week View
Jump Lists
Jump Lists
New Mobile View
New Mobile View

So far all of these features are working. None of them are perfect but the majority of the feature is working well. I’ll keep refining the update and hopefully release soon.

Thanks again for using Ink Calendar!

 

Joe

Plans for 2018

Posted on by TheJoeFin

In the next year I plan to continue to make more improvements to Ink Calendar. Here is a short list of my top priorities for 2018

1. Appointments in The Week View

2. Improve the ink selection UX

3. Background Live Tile Update

4. Drag and drop ink

5. Improved Mobile (Small Screen UX)

6. Show current day on month view and time on week view

7. Rework settings

8. Fluent

9. Layers

• Overall bug fixes and improvements

Let me know what you think. What features do you want to see? Are you hoping for something that isn’t on this list? Comment below or reach out to me on Twitter (@TheJoeFin)

Thanks again for using Ink Calendar!

-Joe

Advanced Settings for 1.10

Posted on by TheJoeFin

Version 1.10 will not be a big release from forward facing features but it will provide some much requested advanced settings. These are settings for people who are interested in making backups of their ink and deleting all their ink.

Another big element of this release is using the roaming app data service to sync ink between devices. I’ve named this ‘slow sync’ because this service is very slow. While slow it does work and is free for me to implement so I decided to add this as a feature for those who want to try to use it.

With the slow sync come the risk of overwriting ink from one device by inking on another device. To reduce this issue I’ve added the ability to backup and load ink, and the ability to set a device as a view-only device. These view-only devices will not save the ink and this should reduce the risk of ink overwrite.

There are many little things which can go wrong when implementing features like these so please be careful and let me know if something doesn’t work the way you think it should.

Thanks for using Ink Calendar,

Joe

 

P.S. The support@InkCalendar.com email was broken because of a domain name thing, but it is fixed now.

P.S.S. Microsoft is having technical troubles with flights so I don’t know when this update will get pushed out.