May 22, 2026. Afternoon gym session, then 4:50 p.m..
A halving bug
Before my workout I checked the PB Tracker app to see when my last gym session was. During the session I discovered a small problem: it’s not correctly counting dumbbells and barbells. It’s still halving the weight. I have to fix that.
A power user button
When I got home I quickly wrote a prompt so I can get the app to add a voice input feature, basically a power user button.
What I want is to speak an exercise set into my phone, and the app will parse that string, looking for three distinct blocks of text: the word “set” with a numerical value, the word “rep” or “reps” with a numerical value, and an exercise type that matches something in my list. Once it finds those three values, it locks them into the exercise set creator pop-up.
The idea is that a power user, someone who actually pays for the app, can just speak their sets into the phone:
“Two sets of barbell curls, ten reps max.”
The app gets the meaning from that, writes it out, locks it in, and then I just speak out the next one, and the next one, and finally add the time and submit the gym session. That would be the best way to go about it.
App Features Log: May 22, 2026
- Voice input designed: parses sets, reps and a matching exercise from speech
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Read what happens next in the dev diary: the next entry.
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