https://dotslife.app/changelog The latest updates, improvements, and new features from DotsLife. en-us Thu, 21 May 2026 21:35:00 GMT https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.6 Premium Dithered Glows: • Replaced simple blur backgrounds with a new high-fidelity grain noise overlay to completely eliminate color banding. • Glows now blend smoothly on modern high-resolution displays, creating a cohesive, premium dark-mode aesthetic across the landing page, dashboard, and settings panels. Improved Mobile Interactions: • Added threshold-based tap detection to distinguish between scrolling, panning, and opening a period detail dialog. • Introduced pinch gesture suppression to prevent accidental dot selections while zooming on touchscreens. Branding Enhancements: • Scaled up the brand logomark across the Settings panel and Sign-in experience for a more balanced and modern visual identity. • Unified interactive elements and backgrounds to align with our updated design system. Thu, 21 May 2026 21:35:00 GMT https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.6 https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.5 Beautiful Date Picker: • The "Jump to Date" calendar has been completely rebuilt from scratch into a stunning, iOS-style dialog. • You can now browse by day, month, or year — each with its own dedicated picker panel that slides in and out smoothly. • Quick shortcuts let you jump instantly to Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow, or as far back as 1, 5, or 10 years ago with a single tap. • A live relative label shows you exactly where the selected date lands — "Yesterday", "In 3 days", "42 days ago" — right as you pick. Know Whose Story You Are Telling: • The entry dialog now shows a clear avatar at the top so you always know whose journey you are writing for. • If you are tracking a pet, you will see their photo or their personalized icon right above the journal. • If you are journaling for yourself, your own profile photo or initial appears instead. • No more guessing — every entry feels personal and intentionally tied to the right companion. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:59:00 GMT https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.5 https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.4 Companion Journeys: • You can now add your pets and track their lives alongside your own with a dedicated companion timeline. • Each pet gets their own journal, to-dos, and feelings — just like your personal journey. • A quick-switch toggle in the header lets you flip between your view and any pet's view instantly, without navigating away. • The toggle shows both your avatar and your pet's avatar side-by-side so you always know which perspective you are viewing. Redesigned Homepage: • The homepage has been redesigned to reflect the full vision of DotsLife — both human and companion journeys. • New feature highlights and a living visual preview make the experience immediately clear to new visitors. • Cleaner layout with better focus on getting started and understanding what DotsLife is about. Expanded Settings: • Settings now includes a dedicated section for managing your pets, including adding, editing, and removing companions. • Profile, appearance, and account options are better organized for faster access. • Upgrade prompt clearly communicates what Pro unlocks, with a coming-soon indicator replacing a stale link. Interface Polish: • Fixed a visual glitch where tooltips would appear to slide in diagonally from the corner of the screen. • Tooltips now animate smoothly in place, fading and scaling from the correct direction. • The account menu is cleaner and no longer duplicates the pet-switching controls that now live directly in the header. Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:59:00 GMT https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.4 https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.3 Safer Sharing & Recovery: • Sharing now points only to the public DotsLife website, so personal life-grid links are not exposed. • Added a dedicated reset view action to help people recover quickly if zoom or navigation gets out of place. • Improved browser zoom recovery on mobile so it is easier to return to a clean, usable view. Lists Experience: • The Lists screen now opens as a tabbed dialog with Journal, Todos, and Feelings always available at the top. • You can switch between sections instantly without backing out or reopening the panel. • Opening, loading, and card transitions were smoothed so the experience feels more polished and less abrupt. Visual Polish: • Improved tooltip behavior to reduce flicker and accidental popups. • Refined settings and legend layout for a cleaner, tighter presentation. • Updated downloaded images with a larger DotsLife.app watermark and branded logo treatment. Accessibility & Trust: • Strengthened dialog accessibility and control labeling to improve support for keyboard and assistive-technology users. • Clarified homepage messaging around future mobile apps with a dedicated Coming soon presentation. Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:59:00 GMT https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.3 https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.2 Mobile Experience: • Refined Touch Interactions: Switched to a deliberate two-step process (Pin then View) to prevent accidental dialog openings while exploring the grid. • Enhanced Navigation: Repositioned zoom and reset controls to ensure they are easily accessible and don't overlap with the navigation menu. • Gesture Stability: Improved handling for pinch-to-zoom and panning, ensuring the app scales correctly without interfering with browser defaults. • Intelligent Tooltips: Pinned tooltips now stay active, showing precise date and age information until dismissed. Performance & Speed: • Significant performance boost: Optimized the internal clock system to run independently, making the app much faster and responsive. • Improved battery life: Reduced background processing for a more efficient experience on mobile devices. • Smoother navigation: Refactored the core layout for fluid transitions between views. Infrastructure & Reliability: • Scalability upgrade: Enhanced our database infrastructure to handle thousands of users seamlessly. • Faster search: Optimized data lookups for journal entries, to-dos, and feelings. Improvements: • Personalized onboarding: Our welcome experience now includes a warmer, more personalized touch when you sign up. • Polished UI: Subtle refinements to navigation and spacing for a cleaner look. Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:30:00 GMT https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.2 https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.1 New Features: • Life grid visualization — see your entire lifespan as an interactive grid of dots, each representing a day, week, month, or year. • Four view modes: switch between days, weeks, months, and years at any time. • Journal — click any dot to write a rich-text journal entry for that period of your life. • To-Dos — attach a personal to-do list to any period in your life. • Feelings — log how you felt during any period with a simple mood tracker. • Lists view — browse all your past journal entries, to-dos, and feelings in one place. • Dot color customization — personalize the color palette of your life grid. • Share your DotsLife — generate a shareable link or download your grid as an image. • Accurate time display — clocks are synchronized with a public time server for precision. • Keyboard shortcuts — use arrow keys to navigate time, press ? to open the appearance panel. • User accounts — sign up to save everything securely to the cloud across devices. • Guest mode — try the app without an account; your birthday is saved locally. Coming Soon: • Dark mode / light mode toggle. • Subscription plans and premium features. • Mobile app. • Daily reflection reminders. • PDF export. Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dotslife.app/changelog#v0.1