A share address, more swipes and a storage page

Today's OScar changelog is a long one, and it has a theme: what other people see. The people you share a file with, the customer who gets your invoice, the visitor who wonders who makes all this. Along the way, phones learned more swipes and the home menu grew a Storage page.

Share links got their own address

Until today a share link started with my name, because OScar lives on oscarritzen.com. That's fine between friends. It looks a little odd when you send a contract to a client and the link carries some other person's name.

So share links now live on viaoscar.com. A shared file or folder from Documents or Photos, a board from Draw and a list from Checklist all get a link on that address. It does one thing only: it opens what was shared. Type the bare address into a browser and a small page explains what it is.

Links you sent out before today keep working. Old file and Draw links hop over to the new address by themselves, and Checklist links stay where they are, so a list someone saved to their phone's home screen doesn't break.

Email an invoice straight from the app

Invoices used to stop at the PDF: you downloaded it and mailed it yourself. Now an invoice in your Sent list has an Email invoice button. Check the address, add a line or two if you like, press send.

Your customer gets the PDF from "your business via OScar". When they reply, the answer goes to your own contact email. That last part mattered most to me: OScar carries the envelope, but the conversation is yours.

Swipes everywhere, and My favorites

Yesterday phones learned to swipe rows in Notes and Draw. Today the same gesture reached Documents and Photos, and it works on folders as well as items. I also flipped the sides, so the rule is the same wherever you are:

• Swipe left for a red Delete.

• Swipe right for Settings and Color.

The Vault got the swipe on its folders too. For an hour its items swiped as well, and then I took that back. A password is not something you should be able to delete with a stray thumb, so deleting a Vault item stays a deliberate act: right-click on a computer, or open the item and press Delete.

Notes and Draw also gained a red My favorites row at the bottom of the sidebar. It gathers every starred note or drawing in the project, whatever folder it sits in.

A Storage page

Every account comes with a chunk of storage, and until today the only way to know how much you had used was a single number in Settings. The home menu now has Storage. One bar shows how full you are, split by tool in colour: documents, photos, drawings, Vault files, and the free space as the grey rest. Below it each project gets its own bar, so you can see at a glance which one eats the most. Files in the trash are counted and named, since they still take room until they are gone.

The page ends with the storage add-ons. The button to buy one is waiting for payments to open, which is the next big thing on my list.

An About page and a Guides page

The site has an About page again. I built one this morning, removed it by lunch because the home page already says who I am, and brought it back in the afternoon with a clearer job: it's the page about the person. Who I am, the studio I run, and one line each for the things I've made.

Writing it, I noticed a sentence that claimed the blog holds a guide for every tool. It doesn't any more; each guide lives on its own tool's page. So there is now a Guides page that lists them all in one place, and the footer links to it.

Small things

• The six tool cards on the home page now open their own tool pages. Four of them used to land on the general OScar page.

• The footer is centred, and its last line reads as one: the year, the company and "Made by Oscar Ritzén", with the name linking to the About page. The year updates itself every New Year.

• Folders in Draw can have a colour, like folders in Notes.

• Folders on the Notes and Draw pages have their own right-click menu: Color, Rename, Delete folder.

Next up: payments. Once those are in, sign-ups open, and that "Add storage" button gets to do something.