The Activities tab, along the bottom.
The timeline
Your day in order: when you woke, sessions you did, protocols, first and last
meal.
Each row shows the time, what it was, and a summary. Tap for detail.
First: your activity catalogue
Menu → Activities Management is where you tell the app which activities you
actually do. A new account starts empty, and that is the one setup step nothing
else here works without.
Until the catalogue has something in it:
- a detected session has nothing to be linked to, so it cannot be logged
automatically
- you have nothing to pick from when logging a session by hand
Add the activities you do regularly — running, resistance training, whatever it
is — and give them colours if you like. You can add more at any time.
Today will say “Set up the activities you want to track, then log one —
detection starts from there.” until you have done both. Tap that message to go
straight to the catalogue. Setting it up is the first half; detection only
begins once you have logged or synced a session, because that is what gives the
app a first day to work from.
Where sessions come from
Two routes:
Synced from your device. A workout recorded on your watch arrives with heart
rate, duration and often a route.
Detected by the app. The Workbench can notice a period of sustained activity
that no device recorded as a session — a long walk, say — and offer it to you.
A detected activity is a suggestion, not a claim. It is offered because the
data looks like something happened. If it is wrong, dismiss it; if it is right
but unlabelled, tell it what it was.
Session detail
Tap a session for distance, duration, heart rate, load, route where available,
and notes.
Notes are generated from the data — pace, speed, heart rate and so on. The
app is selective: it will not put average pace on a resistance session, because
pace is meaningless for it.
Where a session has a GPS route, it is drawn, along with pace, cadence and
per-kilometre splits. The app will also tell you when its own distance and your
watch’s disagree, and by how much.
That last line — “GPS 3410 m vs the watch’s 3295 m — 3.5% apart” — is the app
declining to pretend the two agree. Small disagreements are normal and worth
ignoring; a large one is worth telling us about.
This example was captured on Android, so it names Health Connect. On an iPhone
the same panel reads Apple Health, Oura or Polar. Everything else is identical.
Effort
You can record how hard something felt, on a 1–10 effort scale.
Worth doing occasionally. Your sense of effort carries information no sensor
has: the same session at the same heart rate can feel very different depending
on what else is going on.
Polar users: effort ratings entered in the Polar app do not reach us — a
limitation of Polar’s interface. Enter them here instead.
Linking
If a detected activity matches something in your catalogue, you can link them so
it is recognised next time. This is what turns detection into something that
works on its own: once a walk is linked to Walking, later walks can be logged
without asking you. It is also why the catalogue
has to exist first — there is nothing to link to otherwise.
Ask Eir
Where there is something to explain, the Eir circle appears here too. In this
build it is tied to symptom context, so it will not appear often.