Case Study: NYC Trip

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Here is a case study of TapToCount - 3W app usage. In October, 2017, we had a trip to New York City. I used TapToCount - 3W app to record our complete trip with most events and activities.

Preparation

First, a tap entity has to be created. For all my travels, I created one tap entity called "My Travels". I'll tap all my travel events and activities within this group.



I enabled location feature for this tap entity so that all the tap items within this group will have location information recorded.



For our NYC trip, I need a specific tap item, then added a tap item: New York. This would be the place I tap to record my New York trip events and activities.

Tap, Tap, Tap...

With above preparation ready, I was ready to record my trip simply by tapping! Here is the view where I could tap my events and activities. After I finished my trip, I realize that I have tapped 116 times to record various events and activities with date & time and location information.

In order for me to remember for those taps, at the time when I tapped, I entered a brief note as a hint, and then I edit the note with detail description when I had time.



Here is the map view of all taps, from our home in Calgary, Canada to NYC, USA.



To get better view of my trip, I use the search feature to narrow my trip activities down to date.



I tapped 18 times from leaving home at Calgary early in the morning at 6:52am on Oct 21, at 10:37am when the plan took off, to the time we arrived at New York at 3:12 pm.



Then from the airport to NYC by taking Airtrain, to the time we arrived at our AirBnB destination house. Then we had our meal at a Chinese takeout restaurant, near by a local market mall, and the first night walking at Hamilton park to watch evening sight of NYC high-rise buildings.






For each tap, I entered a brief description about what happened. Here is the note about taking Airtrain leaving airport area and transferring to Terminal Station in NYC.



Here is the map view of our first day at NYC!



the second day in NYC:



and remaining dates:

Bring Back Memories

Now I sit in my couch, continue to view my taps on the second day, third day..., and review my NYC trip taps in my iPhone TapToCount - 3W app. All the detailed memoirs are coming back, the places, the time, as well as duration and distance between taps.

Do you remember detail information about your last trip? What happened on each day on your vacation? Where did you visit local historical, culture or scenery site, when, how long and how did you get there? Do you remember where had your exotic and delicious meal? How could you recommend and share the information to your family members or friends?

Based on the information I have in my TapToCount - 3W app, I flip the photos we took in iPhone/Mac photo albums. All those great memories and stories are playing just like a refreshing movie!

Here are just a few photos out off hundreds I took during NYC trip:

AirBnB house we stayed, very nice and comfortable!







and great moments we stayed and enjoyed in NYC.
















What valuable memoirs I now can recall from my simply taps! We love TapToCount -3W app.

Version 1.3.4 Released!

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There was a critical bug found right after the release of 1.3.3. We immediately worked on the issue and sent an update to App Store last weekend.

Fortunately, the App Store approved the new release and made it was available in one day. Now the new and stable version is available on App Store.

Cheers!

Version 1.3.3 Released!

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This is a major release with fundamentally rebuild of the app. From the usage of view, the main change is to add search feature so that it will be very easy to find out information when you have a lots of taps. To support this new feature, the framework of the app have been changed.

To get this search feature, just scroll to the top of the view, and drag the view down. A search bar will appear under the title.



Tap on the search bar, a list of search scopes is displayed. Normally, there are four scopes: name, note, tap note, and tap date. The first three are text based search,



and the last one is date search.



Note: the search function is available only there are a lots of data in a view. If there are less than three rows of data in the view, obviously, the search bar would not available.

For date search, when you first time select the date scope, the app will find out all the dates available in taps and set the first date in the date picker. This will make it easy for user to start search. The next time when you do the date search again, it will remember the previous dates selected.

During the time we added this new feature, we realized that some framework blocks for laying-out this app had to be changed/updated. Basically, almost the whole app has been rewritten. We think this change is worthwhile because a better framework has been created and some potential bugs has been resolved.

With this new feature, it will be much easy to find out information in your taps. Let's quote the final paragraph of the app description:

With constant improvements and update releases, we work hard to keep this app recent, relevant, and bug-free. We hope that this app will be a valuable and productive tool for you, helping you record and remember important and meaningful moments in your lifestyle and work.

Version 1.3.0 Ready for Update

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This version actually was released on Dec 19, 2017, sorry for the late notice. Here is the update description:

We are happy to announce another major update to make sure all of our users will have the best app. In this update

• All user interface views support for iOS large text and dynamic type
• Improved user interface for better display and user interaction
• Fixed some bugs. 

Thank you for your supporting and using our app!

In this update, the icon and theme of the app has also been updated.




The major change of this update is to support large text in all user interfaces, specially in some editing views.

For example, for editing: tap entity and tap item, here are two screen snapshots of the previous version 1.2.7.



Even the large size is enabled in iOS device, the text size of editing view are still not changed to large size.

In the version 1.3.0, the text size in editing views are also changed to large size when large size in iOS setting enabled.



In the case of tap edit view, you can see the dramatic change in text size. Here is the comparison of version 1.2.7,

and the new update version 1.3.0

We hope this update will be much more convenient for users with vision difficulties.