Locations and time spent
Hi
For many years I have been using the Life Cycle app to track where I have been and how long I stayed at different places. It has worked great, but development of the app seems to have stopped, so I’m currently looking for a replacement. That’s when I came across your app.
Some features I would really like to see added are better tools for getting an easy overview of a day — specifically where I have been and how much time I spent at each location. I use this to keep track of time spent at work and to maintain a work log. It would be great to visualize the day as a bar diagram or timeline, showing time spent in different categories such as Home, Work, Shopping, Transit, and other places I visit.
It would also be very helpful if locations in the app could be linked to an existing location database such as Foursquare or a similar service. That would make tagging and identifying locations much easier.
One challenge I currently have with your app is that it only allows one workplace, while in reality I have several different workplaces as a freelance consultant.
Another issue is that when I move around within a workplace, the app sometimes thinks I have moved to a different address, so it suddenly registers a new location. It would be helpful if the location geofence could be slightly larger or more stable, so the location doesn’t change so frequently when moving within the same place.
You might want to take a look at the Life Cycle app for inspiration. I’m not suggesting copying it, but it has some really good ideas for presenting location and time data.
Best regards,
Niclas
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Jax
Mar 25
Hey @Niclas, we’ve recently added exploration details and life cycle import support. Check it out!
Jax
Mar 19
Hi, thank you for the detailed feedback. Another user also suggested inspiration from Life Cycle (not sure if you’re the same person?), and we will definitely take inspiration from Life cycle for more useful analytics displayed.
For the current state of Replay, we’re currently focusing on getting the MVP on the app store first, as to ensure that there are no other core issues with the existing features and make the app available to the general public. That said, we will definitely iterate and add more overviews to the explore page! Stay tuned
Jax @ Replay