Be sure to visit the Update History to see how we got here.

Roadmap

Minders is still a new app and there are many new features still planned.

However, I need your help. Let me know which features you’d like to see next. (See bottom of page for an email address.) If there’s enough interest, I’ll prioritize that feature to make sure it gets in sooner.

Here’s a list of features I’m thinking of adding next, in no particular order:

• Better threading UI. Threads will display in full in your stream when you reply to a post.

• More customization options. I know you’d all really love to be able to customize how your posts look. This means customizable fonts and colors.

• More options for embedded links and images. It would be great if you could embed an image or link preview within the text body instead of having it at the very end of the post.

• Calendar or Month-based view. As the author, I’ve been using this app since its first release, so I’ve amassed quite a few posts in my feed. It’s not fun to have to scroll through a long feed when you just want to see what you were up to a few months ago, so I am definitely going to add some sort of calendar view.

• Algorithm-based main feed. It would be great if the app could automatically bubble up interesting posts from your timeline.

• Zettelkasten-like post connections. An idea I’ve been toying with is having a sort of split-screen view where you can have one post in a left pane and then use the right pane to browse other posts. Whenever you find posts that are related, you can drag to connect posts to each other. This will make it easier to explore your post history and similar posts.

• Audio recording. Dictate journal entries directly into the app.

• Rich text formatting. Markdown formatting is available today, but I know that UI-based text formatting is important to users.

• Export to JSON or binary format. This is definitely needed to help you save a backup or if you would like to do processing on your posts.

• Option to compress images in place. If you use Minders a lot for storing media, your journal can get quite large. Sometimes you don’t need high fidelity images, so it would be great to choose to compress images.

These are now in the app:

• Animated GIFs!
• Mac only, for now: Compressed view. Once you have a ton of posts, browsing everything quickly is more difficult when posts are expanded, so I’d like to add an option to “compress” each post that you see so that more can fit on a screen at a time.
• Faster load times