Project: Projact

Projact is a contact and project management app that helps NUS computing students to organise their contacts and their projects’ meeting links and tasks.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

New Features

  • Feature: Command to edit Tag’s names. (Pull request #109)
    • What it does: allows the user to change the name of a tag for all its occurrences.
    • Highlights: This implementation was challenging as it affected contacts with the edited Tag.
    • Justification: improves user’s experience by providing an easy way to correct their mistakes.
  • Feature: JSON Storage for Tags with their names, tasks and meeting links. (Pull requests #109, #142)
    • What it does: allows users’ data to be saved and loaded upon the next usage of the app.
    • Highlights: This feature affects existing and future tag commands.
  • Feature: Command to clear all completed tasks from a Tag. (Pull request #224)
    • Justification: increase user’s convenience by providing a way to mass delete completed tasks from a Tag.

Enhancements to Existing Features

  • Enhancement: New Telegram Address field in Person’s model. (Pull requests #68, #209)
    • Justification: improves the product since users can store a more relevant contact method.
    • Highlights: This enhancement affects existing contact commands.
  • Enhancement: Removed Address field in Person’s model. (Pull request #68)
    • Justification: It is uncommon for target users to know or save their acquaintances’ address.

  • Enhancement: Refined regex for valid emails. (Pull request #218)

  • Enhancement: Edited ModelManager and Tag’s model to support new features. (Pull requests #109, #113)
    • Highlights: This enhancement affects existing contact, tag, link and task commands.
  • Enhancement: Edited existing commands to update Tag’s UI. (Pull requests #113, #135)
    • Highlights: This enhancement was difficult as it required modifying existing commands.
  • Enhancement: Improved the GUI by adding icons and removing blank spaces. (Pull request #216)

Code Contributed

Project Management

  • Managed the issue tracker for v1.1
  • Created the demo screenshots to be shown for v1.3

Documentation

  • User Guide:
    • Updated the Introduction and About the User Guide. (Pull requests #147, #222)
    • Edit UG’s format. (Pull request #111)
    • Documented tagedit and taskclear commands. (Pull requests #146, #251)
    • Edited documentation for list command. (Pull request #251)
  • Developer Guide:
    • Updated UML diagrams for Model and Storage. (Pull request #251)
    • Added implementations and use cases of tagedit and taskclear feature. (Pull requests #146, #224, #251)

Community

Tools

  • Integrated a third party library (FontAwesome5) to the project (Pull request #216)