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Notes

dcalicotte
dcalicotte Posts: 1 Member
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Please bring back Notes. I tracked my weight there everyday. I see there is a weight tab BUT it doesn’t hold my daily weight. I want to be able to look back to a specific day and see what my weight was. Or change the WEIGHT to hold it daily.
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  • Jean
    Jean Posts: 873 MFP Staff
    Thank you for sharing your feedback! We are in the process of testing a new feature for the Food Diary which allows you to check your daily macro totals and swap in an item to meet your goals. During this test, this feature will take the place of the Notes Button.

    For now, your notes can still be accessed via MyFitnessPal.com. Since you're seeing the test feature, we'd love to hear your feedback if you have an opportunity to give it a try. We're hoping it can help users find new and different food options to help reach their macronutrient goals.
  • celizabeta
    celizabeta Posts: 4 Member
    Agreed! Please bring back “notes” in the iOS app! I used it to keep track of at a glance intermittent fasting hours and steps taken since I don’t carry my iPhone with me every step that I take. Please bring “notes” back; it was so useful and convenient!
  • nrpalmer3752
    nrpalmer3752 Posts: 1 Member
    Yes please bring notes back! Going to pc is not an easy option when mobile. I have med notes I was keeping track of now it is lost.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,598 Member
    Does the Apple app not have Notes access under the 3-dots menu, in the way Android does? This was asked in another thread, but I think not answered by any of the Apple users. Usually Apple and Android are similar.

    In Android, it looks like this:

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,657 Member
    iOS app did not use the three dots the same way as android appears to. When we click the three dots at upper right, we get this:
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    The only way we ever had to access food” or “exercise” notes was via clicking directly on either button at the very bottom of the diary, the area now taken up by the beta Analyze button.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,657 Member
    edited December 18
    Jean wrote: »
    Thank you for sharing your feedback! We are in the process of testing a new feature for the Food Diary which allows you to check your daily macro totals and swap in an item to meet your goals. During this test, this feature will take the place of the Notes Button.

    For now, your notes can still be accessed via MyFitnessPal.com. Since you're seeing the test feature, we'd love to hear your feedback if you have an opportunity to give it a try. We're hoping it can help users find new and different food options to help reach their macronutrient goals.

    Hi @Jean
    My feedback is, it’s almost a game right now. I compared it to a Magic 8 Ball in another thread.

    I can click it and it will suggest removing 3 gr fat. Click again and it suggests removing 39 calories (even though I have a deficit of 600 calories over and above my current daily goal, which already includes a deficit.) Click again and it says “no changes needed”.

    At NO point over the past few days has the macros on the beta matched the macros on my nutrition breakdown. It even close. Today there’s over 40gr difference between the Beta screen and my nutrition screen. Carbs and. fats are similarly mid-matched.

    It’s scary it’s giving recommendations based on incorrect data it’s pulled over.

    I get it. It’s in Beta. Right now it’s a fun gadget, with growing pains. You might want to make the “magic” wording bigger and bolder to avoid triggering some of our more enthusiastic users.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,598 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    iOS app did not use the three dots the same way as android appears to. When we click the three dots at upper right, we get this:
    uzdiz734n5nj.png


    The only way we ever had to access food” or “exercise” notes was via clicking directly on either button at the very bottom of the diary, the area now taken up by the beta Analyze button.

    FWIW: Android has TWO 3-dots thingies on the diary page (in the basic version). The one at extreme upper right has a notes option in it, duplicating what appears with the Notes button you've had replaced with the beta thing. The other 3-dots thingie is a little further down, just to the right of the "Nutrients Remaining" heading. That one displays the Custom Dashboard stuff in your screen grab.

    Usually Apple and Android apps are similar. Too bad they're not, in this case.

    It seems bizarre and inappropriate to me that you've had a beta version inflicted on you that disables an existing function people actually use, on top of which I'm not seeing any obvious announcement about this beta in the News and Announcements part of the Community, on the Help/Troubleshooting link for iOS, or in the Help/Recent Activity list. If it's somewhere, I can't readily find it when looking, let alone when it could be a "surprise". That seems like egregiously poor communication.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,657 Member
    @AnnPT77 i changed it to nutrients remaining view but the three dots still gives me the same drop down box.

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,598 Member
    edited December 18
    springlering62 wrote: »
    @AnnPT77 i changed it to nutrients remaining view but the three dots still gives me the same drop down box.

    🤷🏻‍♀️

    I'm not saying it's different when I change to the Nutrients Remaining view. I'm saying Android has two entirely separate 3-dots thingies on the diary page, each of which does a different thing.

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    ETA P.S. If I scroll down the diary page, the top 3-dots thingie disappears, along with the whole band of stuff that along with it.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,657 Member
    I know you meant that. I was just curious what would happen if I changed to nutrient view, too.

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