What I Kept From the Old App: Sessions, a Glossary, and Nothing Else
Rewriting an app from scratch forces a question you don’t usually have to ask: of everything the old version did, what actually deserves to exist in the new one? What Survived Session saving. Every translated conversation gets stored so I can look back at what was actually said. The old app also had a meeting-minutes mode, hiding the translation, enlarging the transcript, and alternating the background color for each recording segment so a long meeting stayed readable instead of turning into one wall of text. That mode carried over into the new web app unchanged in spirit, just triggered by a CSS class instead of a native screen. ...