Beta update: Tactye writes the first draft, and your board can be shared as a picture or a video

This is the third batch of changes since beta testing opened. Everything below is live now, and most of it came from what testers asked for.

Tactye can now write a first draft for you

Planning a practice from nothing is usually slow, so Tactye can now do the first version for you to correct. Nothing is ever saved without you: you always see the draft first, you can change every word, and you can throw it away.

A whole practice plan. Say what you want to practise and how long the session is, and you get a plan with phases and drills in it.

One drill at a time. Ask for a single drill and it appears in the Tactical Book as a draft. You can keep talking to it — make it shorter, make it for eight players — and it changes. When it is right, you can add it straight into a practice plan.

The same conversation now works on drills that exist: in an event's practice plan and in the Tactical Book's plan templates. Open it from the row's menu or from the edit dialog. What you asked for stays with the drill, so the next change continues where you left off.

A description from your board. If you have drawn the tactical board, Tactye can read it and write the drill's description from it.

A board from your description. It works the other way round too: from the drill's own description text, Tactye creates the tactical board's starting situation. You choose full field or half field before it draws, and the goals turn the right way for your sport.

There is a monthly limit on how many plans and drills can be made this way. If you reach it, the app says so and tells you the date it resets.

Getting drills and calendars in from photos and screenshots

Most coaches already have their material somewhere else. You have three ways to bring it into the app:

• A drill from a file. A photo or a PDF of a drill page becomes drafts in the Tactical Book. The file itself is not kept.
• A practice plan from screenshots. Several screenshots are read into one plan template. You fill in the durations.
• Matches and practice slots into the calendar. A fixture list or a slot list is read into events. You check and fix every row in a table first, and nothing exists in your calendar until you accept it.

Your tactical board as a picture or a video

The tactical board can now be exported. You get a PNG of each view and the whole animation as an MP4 video, with a Tactye watermark. On a phone it goes straight to the sharing menu, so a board can go into a message or a team chat.

If a video will not encode, the app now says which step failed instead of only saying it failed.

Practice plans

Clock times. The plan says what time each drill starts, and how much the whole plan is over or under the length of the practice.

A type for each phase. A phase now picks one of six types instead of a free name, so the season view can count minutes by type. An AI draft picks the type itself.

Goal, equipment and variations. A drill can carry what it is for, what you need for it, and how to vary it. You write them once and they follow the drill into copies, into the library and onto the printout.

The Tactical Book's new plan dialog is now the same as the one on the event form.

Team statistics

Statistics now count practices that are still ahead, not only ones that have been held, so you can see what you are planning and not only what you did.

The weighting bars can be shown as percentages, and what is behind you and what is ahead of you stand side by side instead of being added together.

Events

The timetable is now as tall as it is long: an item that takes two hours takes twice the room of a one-hour one, and empty gaps shrink.

The people who have signed up are shown side by side, with the team as the heading, instead of one long stack that repeated the same team on every row.

A reason given when someone answers no now stays visible in the answer bar, and the shared event text lists who has signed up.

Smaller fixes

Start on the tactical board shows the starting situation again.

Number fields work on a phone: you can clear one and type it again, and minus and plus are proper buttons.

Alternative line-ups have an edit button, so you can rename one without the formation or the players moving with it.

A team's member list is last on the page and split into pages, so the list of guardians no longer fills the screen.

Keep the feedback coming!

The feedback link is under your profile.

Best Regards Team Tactye