It was a sleeves-rolled-up day on CrumbLab. No shiny new features, but a bunch of things that just make baking with the simulator more pleasant. An honest little story.

Nothing lost anymore

The biggest annoyance was simple. You were happily tweaking hydration and bulk rise, hopped over to the Plan tab to check what time the oven needed to be on, came back — empty. All gone. Like dough sliding out of the bowl.

That''s over. Everything you set — sliders, buttons, choices — is still there when you come back. Browser closed, phone off, opened an hour later? Your recipe sits there exactly as you left it.

Along the way I also found an annoying little mistake: some sliders weren''t saving your changes at all. Visible, but stored nowhere. It had been quietly hiding for a while. Fixed.

On your phone, things were in the way

Two floating buttons sat exactly where you wanted to tap — one to ask ToosT something, one to open your recipes. A bit like a spoon that keeps falling into your batter.

Now there''s a tidy bar at the bottom with two clear buttons: 📂 Recipes and 🤖 Help from ToosT. Nothing floats in view anymore; you''ve got space to read and tap in peace.

Also: it now clearly shows which recipe you''re tweaking — a small label up top that scrolls along with you. No more wondering whether that Saturday-morning loaf is the active one or that other recipe with the too-high hydration.

A bonus: if you don''t have CrumbLab as an app on your phone yet, the menu now automatically shows a 📲 Install app button. One tap and it sits like a real app on your home screen, with no browser bars around it.

A bit snappier

Not earth-shattering, but noticeable. Images on the blog load faster now, and if you open the same page twice, everything pops up instantly instead of making you wait again.

What I still want

Honest little list:

The bread illustration on the homepage still has an ugly white edge — I want to blend it better with the parchment background
The mood images in blogs could also fade more gently into the page
The simulator could be even snappier — work for a quieter weekend

What stood out

The biggest lesson today: very small things can make a world of difference for you as a baker. A slider that doesn''t save is a typo to me, an hour of lost work to you. It''s tempting to work on grand new ideas, but whether saving works properly and whether images load quickly — that''s what makes a tool pleasant to use every day.

Enough typing for today. Time to bake some bread.