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Paperless 2.0
Posted September, 11 2013

Paperless has been redesigned for iOS 7. I’ll show screenshots of what is currently out on the AppStore and what is in store with 2.0

 

New Logo

  Old paperless icon  New paperless icon

Many thanks to @heathgerlock for the icon design! The page curl definitely stands out on the springboard.

 

 Edge to edge design

Screenshot 2013 07 18 13 16 52    Screenshot 2013 09 11 09 31 52

Gone are the wood textures. The basic design still remains the same( navigation on the upper left and adding a receipt is still a plus button in the upper right). By removing the textures and allowing more room for content, I was able to add a search bar.

Screenshot 2013 09 10 19 58 41

Most of the receipt meta data can be searched from the search bar:

  • Name
  • Address
  • City
  • State
  • Notes

Notes

The ability to categorize and annotate receipts have been the number one and number two requests from customers. The categorization features ( tagging ) is still in development and won’t be ready until some time after iOS 7 is available to the public.

 

Improved currency support

I received a few support emails mentioning that some customers wanted the ability to change currency that is stored with a receipt. That is now done easily by just tapping on the currency symbol when creating or editing a receipt and selecting the appropriate country:

Screenshot 2013 09 11 10 51 25

 

This is useful in the situation that a person will travel to another country collect the receipt and then add it to Paperless when they get to their home country.

 

More information when viewing existing receipts

Screenshot 2013 09 11 10 59 18  Screenshot 2013 09 11 11 02 53

This screen was completely redesigned and rewritten. The image is now much bigger and stretches from edge to edge. The receipt amount is in the title to allow for bigger numbers. Since the screen is not a fixed vertical layout but a scrolling one, I was able to add in information such as notes with little difficulty. The map has been replaced with a map image snapshot. That saves on processing as well as memory usage.

Sharing receipts

Screenshot 2013 09 04 16 31 42  Screenshot 2013 09 10 20 02 19

Since I used the default sharing dialogs in iOS 6, customers get Airdrop as an option in iOS 7

Creating receipts

Screenshot 2013 07 18 13 26 23  Screenshot 2013 09 11 11 11 37

Creating a receipt has also changed significantly. No more wood textures. The custom keyboard is now gone in favor of the standard keyboard. 

Screenshot 2013 07 18 13 28 16  Screenshot 2013 09 11 11 16 48

The toolbar has been moved from the middle of the screen to the bottom and the control for editing the date is now shown inline when the user taps on the date.

Choosing a new location

Screenshot 2013 09 04 16 19 23  Screenshot 2013 09 11 09 40 24

Editing a location has been greatly simplified. Instead of having to fill out a form to search for a location, the search field can handle any type of address or search string such as “Golden Gate Bridge”. Also instead of having to toggle the “Use Current Location” switch to go back to your location, a simple location arrow does the same job. Also the user can move the pin for greater accuracy.

Navigation

Screenshot 2013 09 11 11 28 15  Screenshot 2013 09 11 11 27 49

Navigation has the same structure as before. The icons are now gone and the status bar is now part of the design. Since I use a mostly white background, the status bar text is naturally black. That posed a problem when displaying the menu ( black text on a dark background ). To fix that, the status bar text is changed to white whenever the menu is being displayed.

One final thing

One thing I want to point out is that Paperless 1.x weighs in at 8.2 mb and Paperless 2.0 is now a lot lighter at 741 kb

2.0 has been submitted to Apple and if approved quickly, it should be available on Sept 18, when iOS 7 is available to the public.

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