TapLog is very nifty, it’s simply that it would be even better with a somewhat extended feature set.
Here’s one use case: I want to log my skin picking and skin care routine (morning/evening).
The first is easy. I just add a button to my home screen that increments by one every time I click it (which is every time I touch my face with my fingers). After a while I can plot number of picks each day, or month, or cumulative, etc. It’s very nice.
Logging my skin care routine is more difficult, since TapLog does not support lists. (Only quantity, and/or text-input [with an optional prompt], and/or gps position, for a single entry)
What I would like is for TapLog to let me predefine a list of items (shave, cleanse, moisturizer) then give me a push notification in the morning and/or evening requesting me to check off each item.
(If you use something like Wunderlist with a daily repeat of the list, it is very fragile. If you miss a couple of days you have to reset the date for the reminder, because there’s no way for unfinished lists to simply disappear unless you actually check them off. And in Wunderlist there’s no way to analyze your list data to see how well you did last month, etc.)
TapLog is designed for entering one piece of data at a time.
If you have a checklist with 10 items and on average 5 are “yes” you have to do 10 clicks. Basically “click 1 yes” “back” “click 2 yes” “back” “click 3 yes” “back” “click 1 yes” “back” “click 1 yes” “back” and “click 5 yes” “back”.
If you have a Google form it only takes half as much clicks.
Besides pure click counting it’s also nice to see the checklist of 10 items together before clicking send to make sure that everything is right.
What does TapLog lack, besides a reminder feature? It seems pretty nifty from the few screenshots I just saw.
TapLog is very nifty, it’s simply that it would be even better with a somewhat extended feature set.
Here’s one use case: I want to log my skin picking and skin care routine (morning/evening).
The first is easy. I just add a button to my home screen that increments by one every time I click it (which is every time I touch my face with my fingers). After a while I can plot number of picks each day, or month, or cumulative, etc. It’s very nice.
Logging my skin care routine is more difficult, since TapLog does not support lists. (Only quantity, and/or text-input [with an optional prompt], and/or gps position, for a single entry)
What I would like is for TapLog to let me predefine a list of items (shave, cleanse, moisturizer) then give me a push notification in the morning and/or evening requesting me to check off each item.
(If you use something like Wunderlist with a daily repeat of the list, it is very fragile. If you miss a couple of days you have to reset the date for the reminder, because there’s no way for unfinished lists to simply disappear unless you actually check them off. And in Wunderlist there’s no way to analyze your list data to see how well you did last month, etc.)
TapLog is designed for entering one piece of data at a time.
If you have a checklist with 10 items and on average 5 are “yes” you have to do 10 clicks. Basically “click 1 yes” “back” “click 2 yes” “back” “click 3 yes” “back” “click 1 yes” “back” “click 1 yes” “back” and “click 5 yes” “back”. If you have a Google form it only takes half as much clicks.
Besides pure click counting it’s also nice to see the checklist of 10 items together before clicking send to make sure that everything is right.