Devlog 4: InSave now remembers for you, even when it’s closed
The whole point of InSave in one line: the reel you saved and forgot comes back to you. Built it in 3 slices.
The brain: wakes on a timer, picks what’s worth nudging you about. Important reels come back sooner and push harder. Junk you keep ignoring quietly backs off, so it never becomes the app you mute.
The push: that nudge lands as a real notification with InSave fully closed.
The action: done / snooze / open the reel, straight from the notification.
Proudest bit is invisible: the phone and the server write to totally separate parts of each reel, so they can never fight. That’s why deleting the app or switching phones brings your reels back instead of losing them. The scariest problem in the project.
Honest bug I wrote down instead of hiding: snooze a reel and it can still pop up early. On the fix list.
117 tests, all green. Full loop closed: save → tag → remind → act.
Next: living with it on my own phone for a few weeks. Tests work but they can’t tell me if my app is too annoying and if every couple days feels right. Only real use can. Also the frontend, eesh it pains me gotta get to work on that