Don't Forget The Spoon Beta App Launch!

Late blog post here but I did get an update out right before Christmas that added better tablet support and limited web support, so you can log in and build you packs on the big screen ;-)

Check out the web app by visiting https://dfts.app/ and clicking the login button in the top right corner.

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! I heard from a lot of you over the holidays, seems like you were all dreaming of your next big trip in the new year! Keep packing, and I have some exciting updates coming now that I am back to coding!

Back in October 2023, I released a fairly major update that allowed users to create sub packs for easily adding groups of items to a pack.

I have received a lot of great feedback on how users have loved that update, and how it has made creating packs easier and more efficient, but........ each user who loved it also wished they could mark all the items in a sub pack as "Packed" with one tap, instead of swiping each item individually.

Today, I am releasing some helpful updates to help make Sub packs even more useful! And one of those features is one tap packing all items in a particular sub pack!

This released was just pushed to both Android and iOS App stores and should be live in both stores in the next coming days.

When viewing a pack, there is now a new summary card added entitled, "Sub Pack Summary / Management"

This card will show you a list of each sub pack that has been added to your current pack along with that sub packs weights and a bar chart that shows what percentage of the total pack weight is from each sub pack:

If you want to only view items in your list from a particular sub pack, you can tap the sub pack, and it will auto filter your list so that you only see that sub packs items:

Lastly if you tap the "+" Icon next to the sub pack, it will mark all the items as packed with one tap! You no longer have to pack each item individually in sub packs if you do not want to. Once the items are marked packed, the "+" icon turns to a "-" and you can tap the "-" to un-pack all the items from that particular sub pack!

MLWRIGHT Are you editing it in your gear locker? Or in a pack?

MLWRIGHT > MLWRIGHT I change weight from lb to oz in gear locker and it will not save it.

I see this bug. I just fixed it and am uploading to the app stores now. Are you on iPhone of Android? Android should be live in a few hours. iOS usually takes 24-48 hours for approval in their app store.

MLWRIGHT I change item to consumable in pack and it will not save.

This is a bug that was identified the other day an actually an update went out last night/this morning that fixes this issue. Please go to your app store and make sur eyou are on the latest version. If interested you can read about that fix here:

MLWRIGHT Just had this one reported by a user on reddit a few hours ago as well. Update pending review. Sorry for the hectic start. Should be fixed shortly. I can reply here so yo get notified once I see them live.

MLWRIGHT Update is now live on android. Just pending iOS. After updating idf still seeign this issue. Go to where you add gear in this pack and toggle on and off the worn weight items.

New update pushed out today! Live now on Android, and should be live on iOS in the next 24-48 hours. This has been an update I have personally been wanting for awhile now. I have a lot of packs and sub packs now, and wanted to clean up up my pack list..... So now you can archive packs!

Archiving a pack removes it from your Pack List, but still keeps it available for other to view if its a public pack. You can also archive sub packs if you do not want them cluttering your main view, and you will still be able to add them to packs.

To archive a pack just click the 3 dots in the upper right while viewing a pack, and select "Archive Pack"

Once a pack is archived, you can go to settings and there is an option to view all archived packs. You can edit packs straight from that list or you can tap the un-archive button to bring it back to your main list.

Archiving packs is only available to pro subscribers since free users can only have 5 packs at this time.

Pushing to the app stores right now is our latest update! Should be live in Android App Store today and maybe even the apple app store (Apple has been getting quicker at reviews).

Latest update adds summary cards to your Gear locker. This allows you to see basic stats about the items you own. It also allows you to filter your gear locker easily by Category, Item Type or Manufacturer by taping the bar graphs like you can already do with the pack summary cards.

Hope you enjoy the update!

Another update going out tonight to the app stores for approval:

Under the hood fixes mostly for our European friends or anyone not using pounds and ounces. There were some ever slightly small rounding errors when looking at total weight and summary cards for a pack. This update should fix those small rounding errors which add up with a lot of gear.

Lately I have been working on a lot of code clean up and back end changes that you all will not really see but will have huge benefits for you all. Unfortunately while doing that I broke the community gear locker search for about 24 hours (Sorry about that). It is now fixed, so please update to the latest version to make sure you have that fix.

Secondly the changes I made in the background was more for me to be able to more quickly conduct admin tasks. If you do not know I screen all the items before they go into the public gear locker, so that it doesn't get crazy with lots of duplicates etc. With the large influx of users lately, I have not been able to keep up with approving gear locker additions, new items are being added to quickly by you all (Thanks!).

In the latest release I can now approve new additions to the community gear locker much quicker!

Another small update pushed out today. Live in Android app store, waiting for the iOS review still.

LAtest update adds onboarding to the app. When you first open the app there will be a few screens that give you a high level overview of how the app works. This is to help new users get acquainted with the app quicker.

Adding user names! Apologies if you just went through the new onboarding screens, you will need to one more time to set your username ;-)

User names at this time just show up under the pack description on public packs in the "Find Packs" section. This is just the beginning, lots more to come :-)

Currently live on Android, Apple should be live sometime today!

Last updates I added usernames, and this update starts to take advantage of them!

Now when viewing a public pack from a user, you will see their username in the bottom left hand corner. You can now tap their username and go to their public user profile. The public user profile is very simple right now and shows a list of that users public packs!

Much more planned for the user profile in the future!

I realized I didn't post the last update in here which I pushed out on 9/23/2024 which added gear notes! You can now add gear notes and filter items by searching gear notes as well:

Additionally today I pushed another small update that gives user feedback when swipping on a gear item in a pack to mark it as packed. Swipe right to pack and left to un-pack:

Fun Christmas update, if you are a pro user who has uploaded images you can now create and share your own Gear Layouts of your pack! Here is mine from my Cactus to Clouds hike:

You can select the Gear Collage from the 3 dot menu while viewing any pack. It will create the collage on all items with an uploaded image.

It initially create a randomized collage, but you can edit to your liking. Drag images to move them around, pinch and zoom to enlarge or shrink image and rotate them.

I found pinch and zoom difficult on smaller images, so you can tap an image to bring up manual controls for fine tuning. Hope you all enjoy!

Can’t wait to see what gear layouts that you all make from your adventures!