Clear 2.4.3 TestFlight (Repeating Tasks + New Toolbar)

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Hey all, so we are preparing to submit 2.4.3 for release.

We can use a final sanity check on this build before it goes out. I’m curious what you think of the new toolbar and repeating tasks features, but we also want to make 100% sure the data changes involved in preparing for sync testing are totally stable.

I don’t expect data issues, however, if you are helping test, please use this App URL before installing this beta to create a manual backup of your Clear data to be 100% safe:

https://tinyurl.com/25a8kyk3

(You can save the backup to your Files app.)

Here’s what’s new:
• Toolbar above keyboard
• New setting to enable swipe gesture to show or hide toolbar
• (Pro) Set tasks to repeat, they will regenerate when cleared away
• Simple Styles text shortcuts deprecated in favor of toolbar options
• Natural language reminders deprecated in favor of toolbar option
• More logging & reduction in data synced to Clear Watch
• Backend data support for the upcoming sync & Clear Web test
• “Clear” changed to “Remove Reminder” for more legibility
• Momotaro theme color values tweaked

Repeating tasks have been requested since Clear’s original release, and it’s a feature that is kind of enabled by the new toolbar, which allows for some useful features without needing new hidden gestures to teach. This is a new feature for Clear Pro members. If you’re helping test this release, Pro features are enabled in this beta.

You can set a task to repeat with the new toolbar. These tasks will ‘regenerate’ at the top of your list after checking them off and then pulling to clear away your checked off tasks:

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It’s quite useful for tasks you’re doing each day on your todo list, or other use cases like weekly grocery items, or perhaps your gym workout list.

The new toolbar is handy, and I think feels solid designed as an extension of your keyboard. We’re dropping the natural language parsing trigger for reminders in favor of this placement, as it’s much more obvious and easy to invoke. (Same for the text shortcuts we had for simple styles.)

Don’t worry if you prize Clear’s minimalism, we also include a new setting you can opt-into that lets you toggle the toolbar with a vertical swipe.

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We’ll be uploading this build as a submission candidate, but holding on release until early next week to make sure it’s been tested. Here’s the TestFlight link, and once again, please backup your data before trying it out!

Let me know in this thread on any feedback or issues!

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Love the new toolbar and the ability to hide it, if needed. Great to have repeating tasks. Tested all new features. Everything looks and works great on my end. Thanks for all your hard work.

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Sweet, that’s good to hear! Thanks for helping test it. :clinking_beer_mugs:

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(I just pushed build 9280, we accidentally forgot to merge and include the backend changes in preparation for sync TestFlight, that is now in this one.)

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I also checked it, there are no complaints, everything works fine. The toolbar is gorgeous for me, and I like it. Great job.

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Working great. Love the toolbar!

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I love the toolbar. It looks minimal and unobtrusive and I haven’t felt the need to swipe it off. Good work!

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Repeated task is great for my bills that I need to pay also as I hate direct debit.
Grocery list is a great idea also

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Update looks amazing, repeats for me have been long-awaited and will change the game. Thanks, team, for all that you do.

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I love everything about the changes made. The toolbar provides easy access to features and is elegant.

Existing text sizes were migrated perfectly. I’d be happy for the two text size toolbar options to be merged so that it is a tri-state switch. This would free up space for something else. Additionally, it wasn’t immediately obvious to me what each would do, unlike the reminder and repeating options.

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I tested everything up to the test shortcuts (only because I don’t do any of the other things normally), and I love it!!

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That’s encouraging to hear from everyone so far! I do kind of feel like we finally solved it for Clear with the toolbar, after all the attempts at previous reminder UX.

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@phillryu Is the single space at the beginning of a task still supposed to make the font smaller? If so, that doesn’t seem to be working.

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Ah we did deprecate that functionality here in favor of toolbar (the cc icon will format it that way)… I hope it doesn’t mess with your muscle memory too much.

We were thinking about ways to keep both functionality but it gets a little messy. But we may iterate on this as we go if we have a good idea. For example I am thinking about restoring some more limited natural language support for reminders, so that if you type something like “Gym at 11” and then tap the reminder icon it would at least open up with that time already selected on the wheel.

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Okay, thanks! I just realized you could accomplish the same thing using the new toolbar :zany_face:

ℬℯ𝓈𝓉，
ℛℴ𝒷𝒾𝓃 :butterfly:

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Can I just add, is there a way to keep the repeated tasks in the same spot as once you mark them off they move down the list.
Shopping list for example with groups I would like to have them in same position and just mark /strike through until the whole list is done instead of looking for each item that’s now moved away from say dairy group.
I do t want to create new repeat lists for each group

*edit re the watch ,there is no option to refresh the repeat task list on it ( no swipe up that I can see)

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I can see where you’re coming from with that request. We’ll need to think on this one and if there is a simple rule that can fulfill this without feeling unexpected for other users who might list differently.

Off the top of my head, I could see it integrating with the ‘header’ formatting, and regenerate back under one if that’s where it was checked off. But I would want to make sure this feels right for almost all use cases if we ship it.

(For example there could be people who use the formatting more to make important tasks big, instead of using it as subheaders, then this behavior would be kind of weird.)

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The test flight was removed ?

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Phill, I’m not using the TestFlight version however you note that [quote=“phillryu, post:1, topic:3526”]
Simple Styles text shortcuts deprecated in favor of toolbar options
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I’m concerned, having used the simple text format many many times in my numerous lists, that these will now all disappear and I will be forced to reformat them all using the keyboard.

Is this correct?

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It should still be available, you might need to leave your existing Clear TF group if you were already in one.

@Rocket they should convert over on update!

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