After describing everything with the two apps I’m using in yesterday’s post, I was thrilled to notice a particular "behavior" this morning.
It’s almost the best scenario I could have hoped for, considering: One Drop is pulling from Apple Health the data I’m entering into My Fitness Pal.
Looking at things more closely, the magic still needs a little help.
Unfortunately, My Fitness Pal isn’t reporting the data by time… sort of. Here’s what I mean. At 8:42 this morning I logged my morning coffee. At 9:35 I logged my usual breakfast. My Fitness Pal simply revised its initial 8:42 AM report to Apple Health, instead of making a new entry at 9:35.
This also means that the data at 9:35 contains the data from 8:42.
Go take some Excedrin. I’ll wait.
I can see those posts in One Drop and I modified the second entry to correct for time and to subtract 20g carbs from the 9:35 AM entry to make it read correctly in One Drop. Sadly, correcting the data in One Drop doesn’t appear to be modifying the data in Apple Health.
Again, I’m really talking about two apps built for different purposes. Thankfully, they both interface with Apple Health, which has become my health data warehouse — exactly what it was designed for, I expect.
I don’t want to hate on My Fitness Pal too much here, but with additional use I can now say that NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE FACEBOOK, My Fitness Pal, which, in addition to its home screen being an awful social media feed, even went so far as to adopt about the same shade of blue.
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