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In mid-June, the project was still License Vault. The immediate job was a fresh SwiftUI foundation, replacing the older mixture of Swift, SwiftUI and Objective-C. This was the start of…
Read the story : Starting again, with a vault at the centreThe next stretch of work was about making the foundations comfortable to use. A growing application can quickly turn Settings into a long list of unrelated switches. We reorganised the…
Read the story : Making the licence manager feel like a proper Mac appAt the beginning of July we started turning import into a workflow rather than a file picker. Choosing an export from another application should not immediately fill a vault with…
Read the story : Giving imports a pause buttonThe 3 September checkpoint shifted attention towards daily use. The sidebar gained a clearer Vaults group, with the current vault highlighted and other vaults available directly. Creating, switching and organising…
Read the story : Making everyday vault work more forgivingHow a software licence manager has grown into a more flexible personal vault, and where development is heading next.
Read the story : QueVault: beyond software licencesThe 6 July checkpoint made the growing import workflow easier to understand and gave some other tools a clearer home. Backup Now and Restore moved into a dedicated Backup/Restore window,…
Read the story : Separating everyday tools from preferencesThis week’s recorded work concentrated on the transition between a locked vault and the main application. The unlock screen became a clean, full-screen experience, rather than leaving the sidebar visible…
Read the story : A locked vault should feel lockedThe 25 July checkpoint returned to importing, this time with more attention to particular source applications. Early mSecure 6 CSV detection began recognising its structure and preserving flexible fields for…
Read the story : Learning from the files people actually exportThis is the clearest turning point in the recorded history. Around 1–2 August, the application stopped treating every saved item as a software licence. Software License, Secure Note and Login…
Read the story : When License Vault became QueVaultAfter the big expansion in scope, the following week was less about announcing another idea and more about supporting the one already chosen. The recorded work included improvements to record-type…
Read the story : Giving the broader vault room to grow