Notes · · Myne

Myne: edit photos on an item, and a cleaner way to add things

You can now swap or add photos on an item after creating it in Myne, and adding items starts with a simple choice: one item or several.

Myne now lets you change the photos on an item after you've made it. Before, whatever you shot the first time was stuck there.

It's a small thing, but it was the most annoying gap in the app. You take a quick photo, realize it's blurry or the angle is bad, and the only fix was to delete the item and start over. Now you open the item and add more photos or replace the ones you have.

A cleaner add flow

The other change is how you add things. The app now asks you up front: One item or Several items. That choice applies to every photo you bring in, whether you shoot it with the camera or pull it from your library.

The old version was inconsistent. The camera respected your choice, but the library button didn't. It made one item per photo, and it could throw away shots you'd already taken. That's the kind of bug that makes you stop trusting an app. Now everything lands in the same tray, you review it, and then you continue.

I also fixed some help text on the confirm screen that still described the old behavior. It said each photo becomes its own item, which wasn't true anymore.

What's rough

I've tested the library path and the mode switching properly. I haven't yet run the real camera path on an actual phone, so that's the next thing I'm doing before I call this finished.

I'm making Myne because I want cataloging things to feel as fast as taking a picture. Anything that makes you redo work works against that, so editing photos was overdue. Next I'm looking at what else you'd want to fix after the fact.