Merry Christmas Lifetickers wherever you are in the world!

It is Boxing Day here in Australia and we have a great release for you just in time for the year ahead. Users now have the ability to share goals with other Lifetick users. This is great for work teams, community groups, sporting clubs and of course friends, couples and families. Both new and existing goals can be converted to shared goals, simply by adding someone as a Co-owner or Collaborator.

Co-owners: have full access to add and remove other users and edit the goal itself (as well as all task functionality).

Collaborators: can only add, edit and complete tasks.

All sharers can add comments using the Activity function which also tracks the progress (down to the minute level) of the particular goal being shared. Furthermore, people you want to share a goal with don’t even need to be existing Lifetick account holders. Simply add them as a sharer and the invitation email they receive provides instructions on how to sign up for Lifetick. Sharing is extended to free and full version users alike. This means people are free to try it out for up to four goals in total (either shared, personal or both) without the necessity of having to pay for an account.

Finally, we know that sometimes a bit of moral support goes a long way toward achieving a goal. Therefore, you can now add Supporters to your goal. These are Lifetickers who will be given access to a specific goal by you. They can see all your progress and add comments to keep you accountable, focused and motivated. Again, the process is simple. Simply add your Supporters to your goal and if they aren’t already Lifetick users, they will receive instructions on how to sign up.

Good luck with these new features. We’re sure you’ll like them. Grab a friend, colleague or loved one and get busy achieving. And remember “A load shared, is a load halved”.

Hi Lifetickers,

We’re excited to announce we are only days away from a major release for Lifetick and Lifetick Coach! We are introducing shared goals and supporters for all Lifetick users. What does this mean?

Shared goals allow you to share a goal with any other Lifetick user. This means you can all be working toward the achievement of a common goal. Great for the workplace, social groups, friends and of course family. Furthermore, each shared goal has its own activity log so you can keep track of who di what and when.

Supporters are Lifetick users (and potential Lifetick users) you can invite to cheer you on for a goal you are working towards. They can see your progress from their own Lifetick account and lend support with comments that get inserted into your activity whilst alos coming through an email notification.

You won’t have to wait long. We know everyone gets excited about the year ahead after Christmas, so you can expect to see this great addition in the very near future!

Hi Lifetickers,

Hi Lifetickers,

We are happy to announce Lifetick Coach has just been given a whole new set of features :

• A serious business upgrade enables multiple coaches per Lifetick Coach account
• Coaches can create and edit goals and tasks for clients
• Coaches can add notes and comments on client tasks
• Coaches get full access to the client Reporting module which includes goals, tasks, logins, trackers and journal notes
• Coaches can reassign clients to other coaches within their account (whilst maintaining full privacy on previous communications between coach and client)
• Lifetick Coach administrators have an audit history to track account activities

Also Lifetick Coach now joins Lifetick for individuals in being an HTML5 application! This completes the job of re-coding both our products into a more future-proof technology whilst bringing several other benefits:

• Faster loading times for the application
• Ability to use on a greater number of devices including the iPad
• Ability to roll out new features and changes more easily (less complexity required) and therefore faster

For personal users of Lifetick, we have released a single daily reminder capability. All your reminders will now appear in one email each day instead of separately.

We hope you enjoy the improved performance and capability of Lifetick Coach. In the meantime, we are already focusing on the next set fo features which we think you’ll be very excited about.

Hi Lifetickers,

We are excited to announce a major upgrade to Lifetick Coach. In the next few days we will be releasing Lifetick Coach in HTML5 to finish our entire conversation of all of Lifetick away from Flash. This means both applications can now run fully on devices like the iPad that don’t support Flash. Furthermore, we’ve included some significant enhancements.

Firstly, coaches, managers, professors, therapists and any other type of coach user can now create accounts for their entire organisation. This means a single account can now hold multiple coaches managing multiple clients. On top of that, as often requested, coaches will now have the ability to create and edit goals and tasks on behalf of their clients. Here’s a short list of what you can expect in the new Lifetick Coach:

• Fully converted to HTML5
• Allows for multiple coaches within the one account
• Coaches can create and edit goals and tasks for clients (only clients can complete their own goals and tasks though)
• Coaches can add notes on client tasks
• Upgrade to reporting for coaches to measure all client activity across goals, tasks, logins, trackers and journal notes
• Ability to move clients amongst coaches (whilst maintaining 100% privacy of communications between a coach and their specific client)
• Audit history for account administrators

We hope you enjoy the upgrade and rest assured we will be announcing the release in the very near future so stay tuned.

Hi Lifetickers,

Today we officially launch the new version of Lifetick. Some of you may have already tried it out, and others using an iPad would have already seen it.

Access to the new version

• From today, all new users will default straight in to the new version, and existing users will receive a prompt after logging in as to which version they wish to use.
• The Flash version will still be around for the short term, but we will not be adding any new features to it. Therefore we recommend that you move to the new version straight away. Once you are comfortable with the new version, simply click the link at the of the application to bypass the selection screen the next time you log in.

What has changed

Apart from a refinement across the entire application, here are the most significant changes to functionality:

• The options to switch between Goals and Dreams has moved to the top right of the screen
• Completed goals is now in the new reports section
• Journal categories have been renamed ‘Trackers’
• Trackers now have a ‘cumulative’ or ‘static’ reporting option – so you don’t have to select this each time you run a report. You will be prompted to set this value the first time you run a report on these trackers.
• The add task entry has moved to a new popover panel accessible by clicking the ‘Add task’ button on the top left of the goals window.
• A new way of entering recurring tasks, hopefully making it easier and faster to creating recurring tasks.
• Redesigned widgets

There are many more changes and new features, but the best way to find them is to simply explore the application. If you have any questions or problems with the new application, simply click the ‘feedback’ button in the bottom right of the application.

We hope you enjoy the new Lifetick.

Hi Lifetickers,

Well, it has taken us some time, but it is with great relief and pride that we can finally announce the unveiling of Lifetick completely rebuilt in HTML5. This Saturday (Friday night for our US customers) we’ll be flicking the proverbial switch and releasing our newly rebuilt product onto the masses. But first, here’s a brief background.

When we first started the Lifetick journey in 2007, we built the product in Flash which at the time offered the best possible visual user experience. Little did we know its days as a leading technology platform would be numbered. The most significant blow it was dealt was when the iPad was released not supporting Flash at all. But with the gradual increase in adoption of modern browsers, coupled with enhanced frameworks meant that HTML5 was finally a viable and inevitable proposition. It is at this point, that I must give full credit to the wizardry of my business partner, Tim Wilson, who laboured over this ever evolving creature to make it the piece of perfection it is today. When we first built Lifetick we wanted to present something beautiful that pushed the boundaries of Flash. So too, when we first started tinkering with HTML5, we wanted this reincarnation to be just as beautiful if not more. And now here we are on the eve of the launch and I think it is fair to be proud. Why? Well, when you think of software companies and web companies, you think of the vast minions of back end coders, user experience experts and front end designers. At Lifetick, one man does all that and more. Tim has delivered yet again and we hope you are happy with what we have to show.  Here’s what you can expect from the new Lifetick:

• Faster loading time
• More intuitive goal entry and management
• Greater range of widgets
• Entire new reporting module including Trackers
• Journal activity feed
• More printable options
• Enhanced CSV exporting
• Full access via the iPAD (of course)
• Numerous other little tweaks and changes you’ll discover along the way

For those who are impatient, all of this is accessible now. Yes, we are cheating a little bit. Simply go to https://www.lifetick.com/application/personal Come Saturday we’ll have this automatically mapped to the login screen. We are now looking forward to rolling out our next set of features. We hope you are too.

Finally, you can now find us tweeting at: http://twitter.com/lifetick. Why not follow us?

Hi Lifetickers,

We’ve been rather silent as of late, but rest assured the cogs at Meridian 86 have been ever turning (slowly, but surely no less). Our latest announcement heralds a major milestone being the completion of the journal functionality in the new HTML5 version. If you haven’t already, then check it out by logging in here:

https://www.lifetick.com/application/personal

What’s worth noting?

Well, hopefully not too much. We’ve been busy refining and extending, tweaking and mending so that the overall experience is better and therefore… less noticeable! But to be specific, you can expect to see:

• Improved iPad support
• Dreams
• Core value editing
• Journal editing
• Journal category editing

What’s next?

For those who are avid users of all things Lifetick has to offer, you may have noticed the absence of journal category reporting. This is because we are re-imagining it and other reporting capabilities by introducing a whole new reporting module. We hope this will really enhance your ability to get the full picture on progress. After this we’ll get onto the addition of the Status screen complete with a whole host of new widgets and improvements to existing ones.

Looking forward to your feedback. In the meantime, stay tuned. More to come… soon.

Hi Lifetickers,

Merry Christmas.

As many of you know, we have been working hard on our HTML5 application. We still have a long way to go, but we are ready to share with you what we have achieved so far. (Some of you may have already stumbled on to it if you logged in recently on an iPad.)

The good.
First up, the application is in HTML5, it should be faster – especially at start up, it works without Flash (eg: on iPads and other tablets) and it uses native font rendering, supports browser features like spell check, zooming and changeable font sizes.

We have tried to make improvements across the entire application, for example we tried to make it easier to create recurring tasks. We also introduced new views to the journal: recent activity and upcoming events. We believe that the recent activity view, plus the filters, will change the way you utilise the journal and remind you of things you have achieved which you may have forgotten.

The bad.
Not all the features and functionality have yet been developed, so you will still have to go back to the Flash application to complete some actions. Although we try not to release anything broken, you may encounter bugs and errors. If you want to help us out, you can use the ‘feedback’ link at the bottom of the application to let us know of anything you find.

The ugly.
To put it simply, if you are using Internet Explorer 8, probably best to skip it at the moment, if you are using anything earlier, then don’t bother. You may find there are a few elements which are mis-aligned, or some minor glitches in renderings. We hope to get rid of these as soon as possible. Even though the application does work on the iPad, we do want to make further optimisations in the future to make it more touch friendly with things like larger buttons.

You can try the beta application today by following this link: https://www.lifetick.com/application/personal. If you like the application and want to use it more, then once you log in to the HTML5 application, click on the account link in the top right of the application to enable the HTML5 beta application as an option every time you log in to the normal application. Logging in on an iPad will take you to the Beta application regardless on your settings.

We are keen to hear your feedback on the application, especially related to bugs and glitches. Remember if you are reporting anything to be specific about the error, and what browser and operating system you are using. We are also keen to know what missing features you would like to see next, your feedback will help drive our priority list.

Also, we would like to thank you for all your support in 2011, and we hope together we can achieve great things in 2012.

Hi Lifetickers,

As recently broadcast, we are progressing along the path of HTML5 conversion. For those that aren’t familiar with software, this means we are re-writing the front-end of our software (the screens you see) in HTML5 and moving away from Flex (Flash). Whilst as a user, your experience may not seem very different, the reality is that the application will be more responsive (quicker), easier to update at our end and finally, available on the iPad.

We will be doing our releases in stages. Today, we begin with the login and registration screens. Therefore, what you will now notice is we have a single combined login for Lifetick regardless of whether you are a coach or an individual user. Furthermore, coach users will be able to switch between their coach accounts and their personal accounts without logging out.

If you experience any unusual behaviour, you may need to clear your cache (within your Internet browser) to ensure that the new changes are detected by your browser. Otherwise, it should be a smooth experience. We will write again soon with more updates and hope your goal achievement is progressing according to the diligent schedules you set yourself in Lifetick!