A Few LPIII Requests After 4 Months of Use
(Long time lurker, made a new account today just to post this)
I've been using the LPIII as my daily since mid-February, and I loooove it. There are just a few persistent nags I have. I actually sent the below directly to Light and they kindly responded, but wanted to share my thoughts with the community to see if anyone else had these issues/wishes:
1. I want to be able to mark texts as "unread."
The whole reason I switched to LPIII was to loosen my iPhone's grip on my daily life—but ultimately, I'm finding the simple lack of an unread option routinely pulls me out of the moment more than my stripped-down iPhone did. I have fairly severe ADHD, and once the unread asterisk disappears from a thread, the message is effectively gone from my memory. So when a text comes in while I'm driving or otherwise can't reply, I feel like I have to respond right then or risk dropping the ball on someone entirely. This alone has created real texting anxiety I never had before, which seems antithetical to the whole Light thing. More seriously, I catch myself replying while driving or interrupting a real person in real time to fire off a text response I can't confidently save for later. On my iPhone I'd just mark the thread unread and come back when I had a moment. An unread toggle would directly serve LPIII's goal of staying present, and I'd imagine it'd be a relatively small addition??
2. I want to be able to paste a phone number directly into the number pad when creating a contact from scratch.
Frequently my wife or business partner will text me someone else's # that I don't yet have saved. But when you create a new contact from scratch, you just get a dial pad as the starting point, and you can't paste into it. So I'm having to write down the number my wife just shared with me, then go into my contacts and enter the number into the number pad all just to get a new contact card going. this feels a little too back to basics, and for what reason? I would love to either be able to paste into the number pad, or for the "Create New Contact" workflow (i.e. hitting the "+" button in Contacts tool) to simply always begin with a full, blank contact card rather than just the dial pad.
3. Please add a % button to the Calculator. I know I should be able to do percentage calculations in my head with ease, but alas I cannot. A percent key occurs to me as a very quick addition, and one that wouldn't go against the Light ethos or anything. Right??
4. (Bonus I forgot to send to Light) Please add an SMS character limit counter when composing a text.
If we're stuck with SMS for now, can we at least get a character count on the compose screen so I know where to stop? I have routinely accidentally sent a text that is just a littttttle too long, and find out later (or never find out!) that it did not successfully make it to the recipient. Ironically, these are typically the more important-ish texts one might send... Isn't the SMS character limit like 170 or something? Just a little "24/170" sort of thing in the upper right corner would allow me to sleep better at night.
All the above aside, I am very happy with the LPIII and this company as a whole. Just hoping for a few of these hopefully-easy sanity fixes.