TrailMark and I are looking for feedback from everyone who has recently (in the past few weeks) installed a test version of Clue Tracker on iOS or Android. Is it clear how to do various searches (Nearby, Location, Name / ID)? Is it clear how to search using "Additional Criteria?" Drop us a note at support@pearlcrescent.com or reply here. Thank you!

I have an Android phone. Is there any way to determine what version I currently have installed? I do not recall getting a new version recently.

I read The Comfort of Crows for Nonfiction November! Fantastic read. If you liked that one you’ll also probably enjoy Something in the Woods Loves You by Jarod Anderson.

Also, for anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend Ripley (the series). Shot in velvety black and white. The cinematography is stunning. We've seen it twice, it was almost better the second time.

Official trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ri2biYLeaI

Totally agree and not just because I adore Andrew Scott. One of those actors that I’d watch reading a phone book

Amanda from Seattle

If you have the test version of Clue Tracker, on the Search screen you will see a new section labeled "Additional Criteria" (on Android, this replaced the "Add Search Term" functionality).

p.s. PI Joe -- You can get the version number by Tapping the app menu (3 horizontal lines in the top left corner of the screen). Then tap Settings and then "About This App." The current test version is Version 2.1.

I have 2.0.8.

I downloaded it today! 😊 At first glance, it seems easy to navigate.
1) Wish I knew what the icons mean on each box page.
2) Wish the app could ignore my attempts, one of my favorite settings on the AQ site.

Are you on an iPhone or Android?

You may find the FAQ helpful:
iPhone: https://cluetracker.pearlcrescent.com/ios/faq/
Android: https://cluetracker.pearlcrescent.com/android/faq/

The first question has annotated images for the common screens. Please ask if you need to know more.

You can ignore your attempts when searching for boxes. On the Search screen, open "Search Options." Login (if you aren't already logged in). Make sure that "Hide My Attempts" is checked. (Search Options can be opened/collapsed by tapping it; the search options are always taken into account whether they are collapsed or not.)

If you use Clue Tracker on Android, you can opt-in to be a tester via the “Join the beta” section within the app listing:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pearlcrescent.cluetracker

Note: You may encounter bugs when using test versions of software. If you don't want the hassle of experiencing bugs, just wait for the regular version to come out. :-)

Have you checked your local libraries for DVDs? Mine has them. Doesn't mean they will have the one/s you want but you never know. Amazon has DVDs, not of all movies but I see them sometimes when I do a search for something to see if Prime has it. I'll bet Ebay has some. I guess if you find them anywhere it's just a matter of whether or not you want to pay.

I do have v2.1. So far I have not noticed any issues with navigation the screens. I did notice that there are no longer colored backgrounds for boxes that I have already found in any particular list of clues. Are all the colored backgrounds gone now? IIRC there used to be backgounds for found, attempted, and planted boxes.

It seems to work well for me. I had to play around with it a bit to see how it worked and that you could add as many criteria as you want. My search results show found boxes as green just as they used to, but only if I uncheck 'hide my plants and finds' (as you would expect).

Thank you. 😃

Can you double-check that Clue Tracker thinks you are logged in? The background colors, checkmarks, etc. should work as they did before.

That was it. The colors are there.

One thing that I did notice as a slight negative. When there is a longer list of clues than the screen can show the information at the bottom of the screen displays over (under?) the three icons on the bottom of the screen (III O <). Pressing those icons still works but they are not as clearly visible with clue details overlapping them.

We have a lot of smaller independent bookstores around Austin too! Birdhouse Books is one of my favorites!

Absolutely, MonarchATX! There were always several venues (book stores and comic shops) to vacuum the $ out of my wallet when I visited Austin! I miss it!

Currently reading: From Hell the Alan Moore/Eddie Campbell graphic novel about Jack the Ripper terrorizing London. It is AMAZING!

I came across this website
https://wtfnotebooks.com/

using their help page to ask about paper quality they responded within 24 hours.

there's an option to choose lined, grid, dotted or blank pages

https://wtfnotebooks.com/pages/product-details-overview

I was asking about paper thickness.
Here's a handy guide to paper thickness.
https://tinyurl.com/4tx5kv55

Thanks for letting us know. We will look at fixing this problem later in the month. Since our newer Android test devices have the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen set to use "swipe gestures" (thin line at the bottom) instead of the bar with three buttons, we did not realize how bad things look when using the buttons.

Just wanted to give an update on how things are progressing or not, and what to expect.

I better first state a couple of important things if you do hear from me (or Ezmerelda) in the coming days, weeks.

We are not cleaning the material. Pieces could arrive soot covered. Webfoot recently gave suggestions on cleaning on the board. Also, I found a quick acetone wipe is quite helpful at least on Tan Z.

Please if using PayPal, please select me as a friend. The shipping fee that we tell you is just that and only that; the post office shipping fee. There isn't any processing in that number.

If you are sending the shipping rate to me via PayPal (11.90, 21.95) and don't select the friend option - PayPal will treat this as a business transaction and take a percentage out of the fee. I am short on the shipping. It has happened a couple of times.

Ezmerelda has Venmo. If anyone is concerned by her Venmo name, she created it when she was doing a scary story creative venture. Not that anyone has voiced concern on it, but just in case.

We did not get as organized as hoped - more about that below. We do know where most things are though between the two homes. Tan - Z is by far what there is the most of overall. Everything else material wise was quite less than that.

So far, between all of the inks, black was requested the most, and it will be the one to run out first.

We live 150ish miles apart, so we cannot just hop in the car to meet on a daily basis. We are hoping to get back up there in a couple of weeks.

Ezmerelda and I are slowly sending out items to the 50ish people that requested them over the past few weeks. Unfortunately, there were some setbacks. Ezmerelda was ill on Friday. She was still not fully recovered yet as of the other day. I encouraged her to rest Friday, and I worked 12 hours looking for and packaging material that day. By the end of Friday, I was sick as well. My health improved by Saturday, but Nic and I left around 11am from up there as there was a snow storm heading our way on Saturday evening. Ezmerelda had a snow storm in her region on Wednesday - Friday. Seven packages were sent on Saturday before departing Gaylord, MI.

Nic and I could not bring as much back to Lansing as hoped.

Nic and I did close on the home. We are in the process of painting before moving into the house. All the material we brought back Saturday is at the new house. We still have to pack. We also are working our 8:30-5:30 jobs, too. I am typing this up on my lunch break. After work we then go to the new house to paint or other immediate projects and then to the old house to pack/have dinner. I may reach out to a person or two a day or a few in a week for the next couple of weeks. Just an FYI.

Please give us some more time to process these. Please be patient. Please read those important statements at the top.

Thank you.

Flame Tree Publishing (in England) publishes an amazing array of choices in notebooks, including many with blank pages. All are beautiful, and it was hard to decide which one to choose for my Logbook #10. Check it out!

Wow! You guys are amazing! I know how much work all of this is and you deserve many kudos and thanks!

I'm glad you're having so much interest and that the slightly sooty stuff is being adopted. I also hope people will consider sending you a little extra something for your time and effort - you're putting in a lot of work, especially on top of everything else going on in your lives!

And congratulations on the new home! I know that process was a bit nerve wracking!

Thank you! Hoping everything else is still going well with the next steps of rebuilding. There's been lots of thoughts expressed on how you are doing. Many, many people care quite a lot about you here in the community! :)

My parents are still using unused punch cards as scrap paper for their grocery lists.....

BB

From the Flame Tree website

interesting
I was expecting a huge overseas shipping charge.

I never thought about the shipping charges because I bought mine from the Audubon shop at Drumlin Farm. I've been pushing them to carry more blank logbooks.

I love this...I am down to the end of some notepads we "inheirited" from a business that went defunct 40 years ago. Used them 10 years, then they got packed up in a move and I recently unearthed them. Lovely blast of nostalgia

Whenever my wife and I go on vacation, if the place we stay offers a free notepad I take it, so now I have dozens that I also use for grocery lists. It's a nice reminder of the trips years later.

Mama Stork - I am wondering if this is my Snail Mail stamp - which I sent to someone to plant as a Hitchhiker. Could you send me a photo of it? PM me and I will send you my email address.