What we did in 2021:

2021 saw many great features implemented in Notangles, most notably:

• Support for mobile devices

• Face-to-face/in-person class indicators

• An auto-timetabling mvp

• A collaboration with Freerooms on a shared timetable scraper

• General UI and bug fixes:

  • Saturday class support

  • New settings modal

  • Limit on the max number of courses that can be selected

Here’s what we’ve planned for 2022:

Two Flagship Features

• Auto-Timetabling:

  • An mvp exists from 2021, however it’s a bit slow. Looking at implementing a new linear programming algorithm to speed things up.

  • Implementing more timetabling criteria.

• Social Timetabling: quite a big feature, so breaking it down, we need…

  • A login system (leaning towards Zid authentication)

  • A database to store user profiles and timetables

  • Components to:

    • Edit/display your profile

    • Add friends

    • View your friends' timetables

    • Collaboratively plan timetables with your friends (live-share) ← maybe for later

Other things to implement

See Jira board. Refer to Trello board for pending bugfixes and minor improvements.

We also aim to refactor a large part of the codebase to prevent it from devolving into an unmaintainable state (looking at you, state management 👀). This will take time and care to prevent the repo from imploding from all the merge conflicts.

Non-coding related goals

• Better project management:

  • More robust roadmap and timeline for implementing features

  • Being a bit more firm with deadlines

• Better marketing and promotion (most people only know of CrossAngles)

• More social environment (covid please chill ):

  • Weekly meetups (something not project related e.g. dinner, hangout)

  • Think of good events for the monthly thing where each project team organises an event