{"id":130511,"date":"2021-02-05T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=67dti69d"},"modified":"2021-02-05T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T13:00:27","slug":"developer-spotlight-streaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/05\/developer-spotlight-streaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer Spotlight: Streaks"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Streaks<\/div>\n

If you\u2019re a productivity-minded person, there\u2019s only one thing better than crossing something off your to-do list: Crossing everything off your to-do list.<\/p>\n

Quentin Zervaas knows this well \u2014 so well he turned the concept into Streaks<\/em>. The app tracks the number of consecutive days you\u2019ve completed a task and securely syncs your history across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac via iCloud. <\/p>\n

What you complete \u2014 whether walking the dog, working out, or meditating \u2014 is up to you. The idea is to stay driven to check off those to-dos every day. The App Store spoke to Zervaas from his hometown of Adelaide, South Australia, where he and Streaks<\/em> cocreator Isaac Forman are working to keep up their winning streak.<\/p>\n

\"Streaks<\/p>\n
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Streaks gamifies your to-do list: Can you hit all six tasks every day?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

How did you get the idea for Streaks?<\/strong>
\nAs a small business owner, I would do certain things each day \u2014 bookkeeping, sending support emails. I was also trying to write a book and struggling. Eventually I adopted the strategy \u201cI want to get something done every single day, whether it\u2019s a sentence, a paragraph, or a page.\u201d <\/p>\n

I was tracking everything in a text editor until I thought, \u201cI build apps; I could probably make this nicer.\u201d Isaac Forman and I whipped up a prototype that looks pretty much as Streaks<\/em> does now, just without the colors and icons.<\/p>\n

How did you land on Streaks tracking six tasks per day?<\/strong>
\nI found if I did four or five tasks, a sixth \u2014 even if it was completely unrelated \u2014 needed to be done too. I just wanted to finish it. So I would put the more difficult one at the end. That gamification really motivates you to get everything done.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the most surprising request you\u2019ve received?<\/strong>
\nOne of the key features is there aren\u2019t any boundaries on the tasks you can add. There are probably 500 icons the app will suggest based on what you type as your task, so I get a lot of icon requests. Someone recently asked us to add a Viking helmet. Maybe they\u2019re a costume designer or they\u2019re playing an online game, I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n

You won an Apple Design Award in 2016. How did you celebrate?<\/strong> As it happened, I was getting married the weekend before WWDC that year. We got married, got to the airport at 6 a.m. the next day, and headed off on the 19-hour plane ride to San Francisco. My wife wasn\u2019t thrilled with that, but luckily we got to travel around the city, Napa, and Sonoma, so it worked out OK.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best advice you\u2019ve received?<\/strong> Before Streaks<\/em> I was working on public transportation apps; someone said to me, \u201cYou\u2019re doing this now, but it won\u2019t be your last business.\u201d That\u2019s a good mindset for independent developers: Remember, there\u2019s always something new on the horizon.<\/p>\n

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Originally published on the App Store.<\/em><\/p>\n

Learn more about Streaks on the App Store<\/a><\/p>\n

Learn more about the App Store Small Business Program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re a productivity-minded person, there\u2019s only one thing better than crossing something off your to-do list: Crossing everything off your to-do list. Quentin Zervaas knows this well \u2014 so well he turned the concept into Streaks. The app tracks the number of consecutive days you\u2019ve completed a task and securely syncs your history across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}