Finding Yourself is Easy

I didn’t come into 2026 thinking that I’d make an app. In fact, I hadn’t considered such a thing in any serious way before, and yet, I managed to do it.

While I also don’t really consider this something with widespread appeal, it came into being as an attempt to automate one small thing for myself in the personal data I capture. Then, after showing it to Luke, he suggested a couple changes that could make it more widely useful — and now, 70+ builds later, it’s available on the App Store for iOS 18 and 26 devices.

The App Store review process turned out to be somewhat arduous or at least persnickety. I was missing a couple of flags in the app’s plist file related to features initially so the app was initially rejected. An easy fix later and I resubmitted — only to have it rejected again though for somewhat unclear reasons. After providing additional background info and feature clarifications along with a video showing the app’s features in use, it was approved.

During that time, I also continued building quality-of-life features and other improvements like data Import (export to JSON was already built in), Shortcuts and Home Screen Quick Actions alongside some smaller visual adjustments.

This latest build is available via Test Flight, and I plan on submitting it for review this week before moving on to new features1 that I’ve lined up in the queue.

I guess this means I’m an engineer now too? 😂

Footnotes

  1. Including: the ability to add names, categories, and brief notes to saved locations. I have some early ideas for simplifying the map and log views but I think that’ll be come afterwards to avoid trying to do too much at once when I already have some refactoring to do. ↩