My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016
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My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016
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Re: My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016
#2I miss physical buttons interfacing with apps. There are many apps that would benefit from this, as mentioned in the article.
Re: My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016
#3@bberenberg - you may be interested in https://sahha.ai/
They're building a developer API to measure wellness and mood without user input.
I'm considering maybe trying it in an app we're developing, but I have no affiliation with them (aside from being in the same part of the world Aus/Nz).
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#4Should have a look at espruino and banglejs
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#5I still use the Pebble as my main smartwatch. I tried out a ticwatch, but got tired of it pretty quickly. The Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel were really great devices, with a great balance of capability and battery life.
The fact that it can easily last a day on a small fraction of the battery has often unexpected benefits too. Forgot to charge? np, just charge while doing something else for ~10 minutes and it will get you through the day anyway. Even less if it just needs to last overnight to use as an alarm the next day.
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#6I miss physical buttons interfacing with apps. There are many apps that would benefit from this, as mentioned in the article.
When Pebble died, I switched to a Garmin watch. It replicated the features of the Pebble that I held most dear, most importantly, the long battery life and physical buttons.
Sadly, it isn't possible to develop apps for it, though. To this day, there isn't a watch that adequately replaced the full glory that is the Pebble.
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#7I still use the Pebble as my main smartwatch. I tried out a ticwatch, but got tired of it pretty quickly. The Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel were really great devices, with a great balance of capability and battery life. The fact that it can easily last a day on a small fraction of the battery has often unexpected benefits too. Forgot to charge? np, just charge while doing something else for ~10 minutes and it wil…
I’ve had an Apple Watch for years but I very rarely use it for anything I couldn’t do with my Pebble Time Round all those years ago. Set timers, control music, check the weather… all possible with a device that was cheaper, had a longer lasting battery and looked better (subjective opinion of course).
RIP Pebble. You were always doomed because you couldn’t have the kind of OS integration a first party device could, but you were the little watch that could.
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#8Tangentially related: I'm extremely very interested in working with something like this for people with Alexithymia and related phenomena. I have the tech skills but have the condition which makes development a bit difficult; email in profile.
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#9I love my Pebble Time watch, and for the first several years I used all the bells and whistles: the sleep tracking, the Bluetooth alerts, even the mini games (like Tetris) from the Pebble Store.
But after about 6 years of ownership, I noticed that my battery could only hold a charge for 3-4 days, compared with 10-12 when I first got it.
Then I realized that I wasn't regularly paying attention to the sleep tracking data. And the Bluetooth alerts were a little noisy, especially since I'm in front of a laptop for most of my workday. And once Pebble went out of business and the Rebble app store became more of a gamble, I realized it had been a while since I used any apps.
So about a month ago, I bought a simple $40 Timex watch. And it dawned on me that it has the three things I really want: a clock, an always-on display, and a super long battery life.
I'm not entirely abandoning my Pebble. It's still nice to wear when I'm out and about and don't want to constantly check my phone for notifications. But it's nice to know that when it finally wears out for good, I've got an acceptable backup.
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#10You're making me miss my Pebble again. There was a project I was looking at a little bit ago of someone who made a Pebble replacement, but I can't recall the name right now.