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Re: Development Requests...

Mark — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:48:07 +0000

I agree with Ash on items 1, 2 & 3.

My additonal request would be that I could "disable" or "gray out" an active reading instead of deleting it. And then later, change my mind and "enable" it again.

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: Development Requests...

moderator — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:19:20 +0000

Hi Ash

Thanks for the feedback. It's great to see the Forum getting to the stage where we are having these kind of discussions!

I have had many requests for csv export from email over the past couple of weeks. It is in development, and I hope to have it released before end of this summer.
This will let you analyse data in Excel / Numbers / OpenOffice etc, and also line it up with other training log information. It will also create a text backup, although the apps SQLite database is already backed up by iTunes when you sync.

The suggestions on formatting the Edit view also make sense - does anyone object to Ash's suggestions of reverse time & date presentation, or graying out saved readings that are not the first in the day?

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Development Requests...

bluewomble — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:00:14 +0000

Hi,
I've got a few (hopefully small) development requests and couple of larger requests.

Most of the small requests concern the 'Edit' screen:
1. Could we have the data sorted by reverse chronological order by default (so the newer values are at the top rather than the bottom)?
2. Would it be possible to have the columns sortable (by tapping on them)? A second tap would reverse the sort order.
3. Only the first reading from each day is used on the chart -- could any other readings on the edit screen be shown in grey rather than black to make it clear that they do not feature on the chart?

Also, would it be possible to have some high resolution icons and graphics? Not a high priority, but it'd be good for it to look nicer on the iPhone4.

It might be nice to be able to view the data in Excel (where I can better analyse it) -- The easiest way I can think of doing this would be to have an 'Export' button on the iPhone app (possibly on the 'Edit' screen) which would email a CSV file dump of the data to a specified email address -- this could then easily be read into Excel (or your preferred spreadsheet application) and from there you could do whatever you wanted with the data.

Finally, I was wondering if it'd be good to be able to loo k at the data in a histogram view. You'd take the last 3 month's worth of data and draw a histogram showing the number of days at each HRV value (or range of HRV values) (I'm guessing it'd look a bit like a normal distribution) and highlight where the current reading is (along with the current weekly and monthly average). It might help to give a better indication of where your current value is compared with recent history.

Hope that all makes sense, but let me know if you have any questions...

Thanks for a great app -- so far, I'm just at the data gathering stage, but it's really interesting to see the effect of training (and late nights / too many beers).

Cheers,
Ash.

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