4.6​

Probably the biggest update since 4.0, Kase 4.6 packs a lot of new goodies.

One important addition is the new Money field with multi-level Currency support! Another big improvement is, under the hood, Kase is now moving to a new internal framework based on modern Collection View and Diffable Data Source, bringing to the table: collapsible sections, more powerful sorting and searching, and fully animated changes.

4.5​

The arrival of Xcode 16 betas prompted some of the changes in this update. First was a farewell to TransformerKit.

4.4​

New Features​

• new column-style Split View with updated Side Menu
  • much better for iPads and the large iPhones (e.g. the Max and Plus models)
• In-app Store (iOS 17 required)
  • e.g. CE users can purchase upgrades from inside the app

4.3​

New Features​

• Recover from Trash
  • Now when you delete a Card, a Deck, or even an entire Box, they go into the Trash instead of getting deleted immediately.
  • You can open the Trash and recover the items (available in the Full Edition, not CE).
  • Items you leave in the Trash will be automatically deleted after 32 days (so you always have at least a month before they are permanently deleted.)
• Flags for Entries
  • Similar to how you can Mark a Deck or a Card, now you can Flag any Entries.
  • Whether to mark imprecise, approximate values, or to just denote special Entries, now you have an additional tool to organize your data.

Enhancements​

• more consistent context menus
  • Look Up, Speak, etc.
• more robust file operations
  • no more “don’t have pemission” errors with AccessSecuredURL

Fixes​

• Side-by-Side view: Multi-line text was not showing. (fixed)

"42!"​

Kase 4.2 will be realizing a major part of my dream that started 10 years ago...

A number is usualy not just a number. It is often a quantity associated with a unit. Without the unit, it is a figure floating in a vague dimension. But when paired with a unit, the number becomes a measurement carrying a concrete value.

Kase 4.2 helps you keep track of numbers with units.

Open letter to all numbers​

Here is an open letter to all numbers:

4 = 4.0 + 0.1​

Kase 4.0 was a huge update. It was so big that compiling the list of changes was almost as big a task as making the app itself...

Inevitably, bugs got in. Especially when we are supporting three major releases of iOS/iPadOS (15, 16, and 17), and Apple likes changing things around with little to no documentations... (e.g. SF Symbols names, hi, what are you now?[^sfs])

4.1 is what 4.0 should have been, if i had more time...

4.1​

But 4.1 is much more than bug fixes. It is a very important release on its own:

Happy Thanksgiving! Kase 4 is finally here.

Kase 4 is coming! But first, Moments 2, and pixelLogic 2! Both of these are near final, and will be released soon.

(2022/04/01: updated and expanded)

NSUserDefaults → UserDefaults​

In the beginning, when Cocoa was hot (circa 2001), there was already NSUserDefaults, a thoughtful API for the seemingly simple task of persisting preference settings.

Swift (since 2014) gave it a cleaner name (UserDefaults, without the NS prefix), but it also created new expectations that the plain old class was not delivering:

• strong type checking
• easy value types usage
• modern Swiftness, etc.

This is where Swiftified UsersDefaults libraries come in. Here we look at a few of them:

1. SwiftyUserDefaults: "Modern Swift API for NSUserDefaults"
2. Defaults: "Swifty and modern UserDefaults"
3. Foil: "A lightweight property wrapper for UserDefaults done right"

(last updated: 2022/04/26)

Kase 3 was designed for iOS¹ 13, and it has been updated numerous times to work well with later releases of iOS 13 and 14.

Kase 4 will be the recommended version of Kase for iOS 15 and greater. This post will document how the older Kase 3 works under iOS 15.