Reckoner Update February 2026

Some big changes are happening to Reckoner and in the way I work.

🤖 AI…

So it has finally happened, I am starting to use AI!

For the longest time I have been an AI skeptic. I had a certain amount of schadenfreude when it came to the latest AI failure. It was amusing the amount that people and companies were banking on this technology to completely upend the workforce and make people irrelevant. I even tried using some AI autocomplete and analysis tools, they all disappointed.

However, that all changed after I got back from the Codemash conference and got a lot of free token to play around with Kiro. In the span of a week, I’ve managed to unblock some blockers I had and included features at a faster pace! I can see now how AI is going to change software development and it will be an essential tool for every programmer to learn how to use. I’ll create another post on my personal experiences with AI coding and how to handle it.

🕸️🔒 Web Encryption

So I’ve been looking into how to handle encrypted import and export with the web technologies. I’ve not come up with a full solution yet, but have been reaching out to Simon Binder to try and figure it out. Work is ongoing.

🔔 Notifications

Notifications are now in Reckoner! I will use a system notification if the user give it the permission to do so, otherwise it just show a notification internal to the app.

📱 Supported Platforms

It’s official, the desktop platforms will be deprecated in a future release. I’ve added an automatically added notification on the desktop apps to notify the user this is coming.

I briefly thought about sending out a survey and trying to get user feedback on it. However, the more I thought about it, the more I just didn’t want to do the extra work. I used to be a desktop purist myself. Overtime I’ve come to see that the computer you have on you at all time will trump the one that might have greater productivity because of the ability to take action when the information is fresh in your mind. The web platform will continue to be the recommended way to use Reckoner on desktop and the UI supports a desktop workflow.

There were a lot of changes that enabled this transition. The biggest are a combination of more performant database web handling, the inclusion of the isolate_manager package to handle multiprocess handing on web, and general Flutter web framework improvements and efforts. I advise that any desktop users create an unencrypted export of their database so they can migrate now to the web PWA.

Until next time, take care!