After a long hiatus, I can finally say that my PR to add a long-awaited search bar into the Loop Habits app has been merged1 for the next release!
The maintainer made some tweaks to better fit their long-term vision, but I’m excited that the work I put in was enough to catalyze a feature addition that had stalled for over 5 years with regular requests to add it2.
This is the most used app on my phone, and one of the most critical to running my life systems. I am incredibly grateful it is open-source and ad-free so I can feel confident in investing heavily in it without regret, and that I could contribute back to a tool I personally get so much out of.
It’s not a particularly impressive piece of code, but that’s not what I excel at. I’m a person who notices the low-hanging fruit that no one seems to want to invest time in, but which benefits a lot of people. The same thing has happened many times at work building internal tools, because I care about all the little papercuts that users experience.
Technically they absorbed my commits into their branch and closed my PR rather than directly merging it. ↩︎
“If anyone thinks this could work and is interested in implementing this, you are very welcome, but I would like to see a mockup of the proposed user interface first.” - iSoron, 2020 ↩︎