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Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

#41

Nice app! Can't wait for the iPhone version :) It looks like you're using Paperfold ( https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/paperfold ). Mind adding it to the list of apps that use it on Cocoa Controls? Also, I'd love to know if you use any other OSS components. I'm always looking for apps to highlight as my 'app of the week'.

You run Cocoa Controls? Thanks for creating such a great resource!

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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I was just discussing personal dashboards last Friday specifically I was looking for something to run on a Pi. Probably a web dashboard. I didn't really find anything (Kipfolio seems to be the business one) so I ended up registerding some domains. I was thinking of exploring it as my Startup Engineering project.

Best of luck with Morning!

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

#44

"Requires iOS 6.0 or later" - one of my least favourite phrases. I'm curious - what specific features require iOS 6? Why is so much iOS software backwards-incompatible?

Developers writing new apps see two things:

- High adoption rate of iOS6

- Cool iOS6 APIs (Autolayout, UIKit attributed text, indexed subscripting, etc)

and they decide to write for iOS6 only. They could support iOS 5, but the work is not worth the reward with the adoption rate of iOS6 being as high as it is.

For developers with existing customers, it is a different story.

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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post #43

I was just discussing personal dashboards last Friday specifically I was looking for something to run on a Pi. Probably a web dashboard. I didn't really find anything (Kipfolio seems to be the business one) so I ended up registerding some domains. I was thinking of exploring it as my Startup Engineering project. Best of luck with Morning!

Small world, I just started an empty GitHub repository last Friday to build a dashboard to run on my pi.

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

#47

"Requires iOS 6.0 or later" - one of my least favourite phrases. I'm curious - what specific features require iOS 6? Why is so much iOS software backwards-incompatible?

The Reminders and Events panels both use EventKit which only added reminders support in iOS 6. Also the high adoption rate of iOS 6 makes it not worth while to support older versions.

I've spent many hours on other applications, mostly Mac, where the time spent making something backwards compatible was never really worth it. Example: I worked on getting fancy animations in an app that had to support Panther, which didn't even have NSAnimation support. However at this time Leopard had just came out and had all the new Core Animation hotness. Needless to say I would have saved countless hours if I didn't try back porting new features to older OSes no longer supported by Apple.

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

#48
post #42

This looks pretty sweet! Just one question: Was there any particular reason for the limiting of color schemes? Why not just show the user a color wheel and let them choose whatever they want?

No particular reason. Mostly just time, I want to get a color picker like that in there someday.

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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Nice! I wake up every day around 5:30am and try to get up and going as quickly as I can. You nailed some of the key things I already do in the morning: - check the weather - figure out what meetings I have for the day The other thing I look for is if there was anything interesting for me that happened while I was sleeping. The best example is how I check to see if there are emails from specific people or internal mon…

Interesting idea. Are you thinking something along the lines of Mail.app's VIP feature where certain e-mails are propagated to the top or are you just talking about the content of mailing lists you subscribe to?

If it were me, I'd offer an option to see just new e-mails into the VIP box, or all mailboxes.
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