Hobby Tracker: Hobby Logv2026.09.06

What changed

• New featureEnhanced annual recap with new metrics like Hobby of the Year and activity patterns.
• New featureNew Hobby Book feature to generate keepsake-style PDFs from hobby memories.
• UXAdded customization options for annual recaps, including section visibility and sensitivity settings.
• UXUnified recap story and settings across in-app views, share cards, and PDF exports.
• UXAdded ability to save default preferences for Hobby Book memory selection and page size.
• UXImproved photo selection algorithm for annual recaps and mosaics to surface meaningful memories.
• New featureEnabled historical recaps to be regenerated using current preferences and wording.
• RetentionEnhanced demo mode with more realistic data and storylines for Year in Hobbies.
• SocialImproved share cards for social distribution of annual highlights.

Original release notes

YEAR IN HOBBIES
Look back on your year with a much richer annual recap. See your Hobby of the Year, the hobbies you kept coming back to, favorite memories, activity patterns, photos, highlights, interesting observations, playful Hobby Graveyard moments, and a complete year by the numbers.

HOBBY BOOK
Turn your year into a keepsake-style PDF built from your actual hobby memories. Hobby Books include an annual opening, hobby chapters, selected sessions, journal entries, photos, measurements, milestones, linked items, varied page layouts, a chronological montage, and a quiet closing.

RECAP CUSTOMIZATION
Make your annual recap feel more personal. Choose which story sections appear, turn Playful Insights on or off, adjust Hobby Graveyard sensitivity, control how many Graveyard hobbies can appear, and customize selected section headings and descriptions.

BETTER RECAP EXPORTS
Your in-app annual recap, share cards, Annual PDF, and Hobby Book now use the same underlying recap story and customization settings. This keeps your highlights, section choices, wording, and playful insights more consistent wherever you view or share your year.

HOBBY BOOK DEFAULTS
Save your preferred Hobby Book memory selection and page size so new books start closer to the way you like them. You can still customize each individual book before generating it, and your privacy choices remain separate for every export.

IMPROVED YEAR IN PHOTOS
Annual photo selection is designed to surface a broader mix of meaningful memories across your hobbies and throughout the year. Photo mosaics, share cards, Annual PDFs, and Hobby Books now have a stronger visual connection to the sessions you actually want to remember.

BETTER HISTORICAL RECAPS
Revisit previous years using your current recap preferences and customized wording. Historical recaps are regenerated from your existing hobby history without changing the original sessions, memories, or exported files you already created.

IMPROVED DEMO EXPERIENCE
Demo Mode now presents a more believable hobby year with better activity balance, more varied journal entries, stronger annual storylines, improved photo coverage, and more meaningful examples throughout Year in Hobbies and Hobby Book.