My wife and I have been pretty quiet on here recently and haven't gone on many trips since this past winter. I have been hard at work learning a new programming language to build a new Android and iPhone app that all hikers, backpackers, kayakers, or any other type of adventurer can use to plan their next trip! Our app is called "Don't Forget The Spoon" and is mobile application that lets you keep track of all the gear you own in your own private "Gear Locker" on your phone. You can then build different "Packs" for different adventures to analyze pack stats like weight. We decided to build this app because.... you guessed it we often forget to pack our spoons when we go on backpacking adventures. With our app, you can mark items as packed to easily keep track of all your gear while packing for a big trip! Download App Download Don't Forget the Spoon in your phone's app store now! Android App Store iOS App Store If you try the app out please make a thread in this forum and let me know what you think! I got a lot of awesome stuff planned! Additionally since I have not coded out the onboarding experience yet here are some pictures and tips below! Pack List The packlist is where you will create and access your different 'packs' for your adventures. Before creating a pack I recommend you first go to your "Gear Locker" and add gear. Items in your "Gear Locker" will be available to add into your packs. Gear Locker The Gear locker is a list of all the items you own. You can click the + button in the bottom right to add gear. While adding gear you can input: Item Name Manufacturer Item Type Pack Category Item Weight Temperature rating (only used for items like sleeping bags etc. ) Volume (Only Used for packs, water bottle etc. ) Calories (Only used for meals and snacks) If share with community is marked as "yes" then the item will be reviewed and added to the community database to help users find gear to add. More on this in the next section. If you do not want to share gear info you can mark that to "no" There are drop downs for some of these fields that filter as you type. You can type free form and type anything if it is not found in the drop down. If you feel something should be added to any of the drop down, let us know! This is the beta and we are adding things daily! Find Gear The find gear section is the community database of gear. This is another way to add gear to your Gear Locker if you do not want to manually type the details in. Since this is community built its not super full right now, but I am adding items weekly. Feel free to give it a spin! Packs Once you have some items in your Gear Locker you can start adding items to your pack! Just like adding gear to your Gear Locker you can add items from your gear locker to your pack by clicking the + icon in the bottom right inside of a pack. When you click the + button you will be presented with a list of all the items in your Gear Locker. Tap each items you want to add to your pack and a check box will appear. If you are like me and have a lot of items in your Gear Locker, you can quickly filter this list by tapping the search icon at the top and typing an item name or manufacturer name. By tapping on an item in your pack you can edit its details such as quantity, Worn Weight, Consumable, or if the item is packed or not. Just make sure to click the "Save Edits" once done. Once you have some items in your pack you can explore the pack detail cards by swiping to the left on the top half. The first initial card shows total Pack Weight. summary and shows weights broken down by Item Pack category. Any of the bar graphs can be tapped, and this will filter the list of items. So for example if I want to just see my "Clothing" items, I can tap the clothing bar graph and it auto filters to just those items: The next card shows a break down of your weight by base weight, consumable weight and work weight. Again just like the previous card you can tap any of the bar graph bars and it will filter your list to only show the Base Weight Items, Consumable Weight Items or Worn Weight items. The next card will show you the percent packed. As you are packing items for your trip you can mark them as packed. Previously I mentioned you could tap and item to edit it and mark it as packed. The shortcut to packing items, is you can swipe right on an item in your list and it will mark it as packed. Or Swipe left to unpack an item quickly. As you pack items the percent pack will automatically update. The last card is just a summary of items by manufacturer in your pack. Again you can tap any of the bar graphs to then filter your list to just see all the items from that one manufacturer. Overall this is the initial beta of the app. There are a lot more features to come that are on my current roadmap! Please try out the app and share your honest feedback with me! Excited to see what you all think!

New update now live on Android and iPhone. Now you can share a link of the packs you put together with your friends! Here is a photography winter day hiking pack I used this passed weekend up in Big Bear (Trip report coming soon): https://dfts.app/#?id=lVeSBUHoLX52zPqAiB9A

Is there a way to integrate with lighterpack? I already have my gearlists built out on there but otherwise would be super interested in using the app.

rysybel thanks for the interest! Right now there is not, but once I tweak some of my apps basic features I will be looking into export lighterpack lists into my app. With the holidays I can't say what that timeline looks like at this point though.

With Thanksgiving this week in the United States, a lot of us have calories on our minds with all the turkey and food we are about to eat 😃 Un-related to turkey day but related to calorie counting and tracking I just pushed another beta release to both Android and iPhone yesterday that is all about Calorie tracking! This is the initial feature release for calorie tracking and will be tweaked and improved over the next few weeks. For now it tracks total calories in your packs based on the food added, and estimates hours or days worth of food based on the estimated calories per day slider.

Pushed out a new update yesterday for both Android and iPhone. The new update adds more options to user settings for selecting what weight format you see your pack data in. These are all the options now: lbs and oz: This shows all gear 1 pound and over in pounds and all gear under 1 pound in ounces lbs: all gear shown in pounds oz: all hear shown in ounces Kg and g: This shows all gear 1 kilogram and over in kilograms and all gear under 1 kilogram in grams Kg: shows all gear in kilograms g: shows all gear in grams In this release I also added 9 new default gear types to the built in list and 3 new brands.

New update officially live for both Android and iPhone: Sort pack items by weight desc or asc instead of alphabetical order is now an option in the user settings Fixed a small bug when viewing lbs were not being converted to ounces in pack view Added 4 more brands to auto-complete list Added 3 more item types to auto complete list

There have been an entire list of bug fixes over the holidays! App should be pretty smooth and be working as expected, but of course if you find any issues let me know! Had a lot of users join over the holidays so there was some great bug hunting 😉 Along with lots of bug fixes I cleaned up the setting page a whole lot, it now looks somewhat profesional. I also just pushed a new release last night, which is live for Android and should be live for iOS by the end of the week which adds quick remove item from pack from the edit item view. You can now click an item and click the X in the top right to quickly remove that item from your pack: Enjoy!

Wanted to add some onboarding help for new users. I would say 95% of the app is pretty obvious how to use it but there are a couple of things like swiping right to pack an item that are not visually obvious to users. Now new users will see options to view video tutorials in two different locations in the app. 1st area is when you first open the app. If you have no packs great or no gear added to your gear locker you will now see an option to watch a "Quick Start Tutorial Video" which will show you how to add gear and create your first pack. A second tutorial video viewing option will show on any empty pack. This video will show you tips for managing your pack on Don't Forget the Spoon: If interested you can watch the full tutorial which is both of the above videos combined into one here on YouTube:

Another big update pushed out for both iPhone and Android this week! Pro subscribers can now upload images of all their gear as well! As a visual person, this makes it a lot easier for myself when planning out a pack. For example instead of remember the exact name of each of the 4 or 5 different types of tent stakes that I have, I can now just add them real quick based on what they look like. I also upgraded the app to Material 3, which is the new design standard from Google:

New update live in the Android App store, and the iPhone iOS store! Updates include: Added the ability to un-pack all gear in a pack with one click Can now search for 'is-packed' and 'not-packed' in pack search bar to see all packed or all not packed items Tapping the packed percentage circle now toggles 'not-packed' search Cleaned up setting page

Don't Forget The Spoon Beta App Launch!

MikeJones

MLWRIGHT > MLWRIGHT I change weight from lb to oz in gear locker and it will not save it.

I see this bug. I just fixed it and am uploading to the app stores now. Are you on iPhone of Android? Android should be live in a few hours. iOS usually takes 24-48 hours for approval in their app store.

MLWRIGHT I change item to consumable in pack and it will not save.

This is a bug that was identified the other day an actually an update went out last night/this morning that fixes this issue. Please go to your app store and make sur eyou are on the latest version. If interested you can read about that fix here:

MLWRIGHT

OK I did the update. Now have blank screen when I click on my pack. Screen shot attached of what shows. Image description

MikeJones

MLWRIGHT Just had this one reported by a user on reddit a few hours ago as well. Update pending review. Sorry for the hectic start. Should be fixed shortly. I can reply here so yo get notified once I see them live.

MikeJones

MLWRIGHT Update is now live on android. Just pending iOS. After updating idf still seeign this issue. Go to where you add gear in this pack and toggle on and off the worn weight items.

MLWRIGHT

Still had the problem. I deleted the last item I entered in the gear locker which is when I started having the problem. All is fixed and working now.

MikeJones

MLWRIGHT I think this should finally be solved now. Hopefully you wont see it again :-)

MikeJones

New update pushed out today! Live now on Android, and should be live on iOS in the next 24-48 hours. This has been an update I have personally been wanting for awhile now. I have a lot of packs and sub packs now, and wanted to clean up up my pack list..... So now you can archive packs!

Archiving a pack removes it from your Pack List, but still keeps it available for other to view if its a public pack. You can also archive sub packs if you do not want them cluttering your main view, and you will still be able to add them to packs.

To archive a pack just click the 3 dots in the upper right while viewing a pack, and select "Archive Pack"

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Once a pack is archived, you can go to settings and there is an option to view all archived packs. You can edit packs straight from that list or you can tap the un-archive button to bring it back to your main list.

Archiving packs is only available to pro subscribers since free users can only have 5 packs at this time.

MikeJones

Pushing to the app stores right now is our latest update! Should be live in Android App Store today and maybe even the apple app store (Apple has been getting quicker at reviews).

Latest update adds summary cards to your Gear locker. This allows you to see basic stats about the items you own. It also allows you to filter your gear locker easily by Category, Item Type or Manufacturer by taping the bar graphs like you can already do with the pack summary cards.

Hope you enjoy the update!

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MikeJones

Another update going out tonight to the app stores for approval:

Under the hood fixes mostly for our European friends or anyone not using pounds and ounces. There were some ever slightly small rounding errors when looking at total weight and summary cards for a pack. This update should fix those small rounding errors which add up with a lot of gear.

MikeJones

Lately I have been working on a lot of code clean up and back end changes that you all will not really see but will have huge benefits for you all. Unfortunately while doing that I broke the community gear locker search for about 24 hours (Sorry about that). It is now fixed, so please update to the latest version to make sure you have that fix.

Secondly the changes I made in the background was more for me to be able to more quickly conduct admin tasks. If you do not know I screen all the items before they go into the public gear locker, so that it doesn't get crazy with lots of duplicates etc. With the large influx of users lately, I have not been able to keep up with approving gear locker additions, new items are being added to quickly by you all (Thanks!).

In the latest release I can now approve new additions to the community gear locker much quicker!

MikeJones

Another small update pushed out today. Live in Android app store, waiting for the iOS review still.

LAtest update adds onboarding to the app. When you first open the app there will be a few screens that give you a high level overview of how the app works. This is to help new users get acquainted with the app quicker.

MikeJones

Adding user names! Apologies if you just went through the new onboarding screens, you will need to one more time to set your username ;-)

User names at this time just show up under the pack description on public packs in the "Find Packs" section. This is just the beginning, lots more to come :-)

Currently live on Android, Apple should be live sometime today!

MikeJones

Last updates I added usernames, and this update starts to take advantage of them!

Now when viewing a public pack from a user, you will see their username in the bottom left hand corner. You can now tap their username and go to their public user profile. The public user profile is very simple right now and shows a list of that users public packs!

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Much more planned for the user profile in the future!

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