About
Self Manager was developed by a software engineer(Marian Sorca) who wanted to learn a new technology developed by Google and to develop an application that he would use by himself.
The Web App was launched at the end of 2022 and the development started in the middle of 2016.
It was launched after 6 years of development.
The development was done during the free time of the engineer.
After a few months of development it was used by himself locally on his device.
The engineer is using this App daily.
Updates are being done frequently and the app is constantly improved.
Many more cool things are planned. Stay tunned!
The idea was to develop something:
- Modern
- Fast
- Useful
- That has a strong technology behind!
The story
2025
Early 2025
A list of the main updates made during the past 7 months:
Teams feature - you can now allow other people to have access to the tables that you choose. They don't have to have a premium plan to collaborate. Only the owner of the table.
Comments at the bottom of each table. Great for team collaboration. Updated in real-time without page refresh
Pinned tables appear at the top of a page. To pin a table go at the bottom of it and click the Pin icon
Completion time of a task. After you mark a task as completed completion time will be calculated based on time of completion and creation date
Order the table rows by: manual order, creation time, last edit, priority, status, completion time, completion date
Duplicate a table with 1 click
Transfer a table to any date of your choice
Copy all text from a table by pressing the Copy button below a table
Each table and date are now in the URL and you can easily navigate from browser history to tables. Table name will be reflected in the title of the Browser Tab
You can paste links to a task or comment of other tables and you will see a preview of the Table name in the output. Clicking it will update the page instantly after confirmation
Background colours(green, yellow and red) for each task that has a status of completed, in progress or canceled
The limit of images for each table was increased to 50 from 20
LOTS of optimizations to make the experience smoother, faster under the hood
Self Manager was used to track all the progress and work on these updates.
To give you an idea of the number of tasks completed in the past 7 months I had to look at the table used for keeping track of tasks.
Guess how many tasks have been completed? 126!
70 Are still in development and there are also others described in notes.
Exciting times are coming!
2024
Mid 2024
Lots of updates on the functionality and User Interface
Some new sections were also added to the login page.
Late 2023 and early 2024.
Probably the shortest period with the most updates.
2023
The app on the left and the previous methods of managing tasks and taking notes on the right.
2022
The end of the year, the launch date!
A new MacBook with larger screen arrived and the development is going perfectly.
2021
The year with low activity.
2020
New laptops arrived.
First a Windows one. Then a MacBook.
Finally, the development of the app is smooth and not limited by the device!
2019
2018
Trying to use the app daily and spot needs.
Put some new parts on the laptop to work better.
Still learning the technologies that power the app.
2017
The app is in a lower stage of development and using it is hard.
At the beginning of learning the technology necessary for it.
Mainly using phisical gear for notes.
The app was connected to a database and the data is stored.
The development on the laptop is slow and anoying due to the low performance of the device.
2016
The idea comes to build and app.
Figuring out the structure of the app.
Choosing the core features.
Choosing the technology.
