Best-before dates, and an app that explains itself

August 8, 2026

Stock gained a date and a report to watch it with. And since nobody is here to train you, the app also learned to explain itself — help you can read while using it, and public pages you can read before signing up.

Open a line to read the whole story behind it.

• New A best-before date on stock as it arrives, kept on the dated batch that carries it.

  A best-before date on stock as it arrives, kept on the dated batch that carries it — so two deliveries of the same thing each keep their own date instead of sharing one.

• New A reports section that answers questions and changes nothing, starting with a best-before report: what has already gone off, what goes this week, and what goes this month.
• New A help section in the user menu: walkthroughs for setting up a house, a hobby room or a workshop, a guide for each kind of record, and step-by-step workflows.
• New A public page naming exactly how your data is protected — the algorithms, the settings, and what is deliberately not stored.
• New A public page explaining what a paired phone does, and why a label prints on a computer instead of out of the phone.
• New This page: every version, what changed in it, and the version you are running.
• Improved The public pages now draw the screens they describe instead of describing them in prose.
• Improved A photo that came out sideways can be turned by whoever uploaded it.
• Fixed An image link now points at the picture the file currently holds, so a replaced photo stops showing the old one.
• Fixed A print station with no label roll of its own now follows the roll set on your profile instead of refusing the job.