Comment on LiftTrace v1.0.0-rc.5: Scheduled Automatic Backups + Raspberry Pi support
TraceApps@lemmy.world 1 week agoGenuinely useful feedback, thanks for taking the time. Walking through each:
Per-exercise sharing. Real gap. The exercises table is already structured cleanly enough to dump one as JSON; adding a “share this exercise” button that produces an importable file is small. The community-repo idea is good too: a separate awesome-lifttrace-exercises repo where people can drop contributions, and the in-app importer can read from a URL. Going on the roadmap.
Custom equipment + searchable tags. The schema already supports arbitrary equipment strings; the UI just defaults to a fixed list. Adding a “+” in the equipment picker plus a “what’s available today” filter chip set on the Exercises page is genuinely useful, especially for travel and home-gym use. Adding to the roadmap as a near-term candidate.
Per-exercise timer for time-based work. Real gap. The rest timer infrastructure exists but doesn’t currently cover “do this exercise for N seconds with a countdown and a cue.” That’s a meaningful addition for anyone doing carries, planks, isometrics, hangs, or hybrid stuff. Sharing the same audio + haptic plumbing as the rest timer keeps it cheap. Roadmapped.
Per-set / per-round rest in HIIT-style circuits. Currently rest is global with per-exercise memory, which doesn’t cover the “20s between reps, 2 minutes between rounds” pattern you described. That’s a structural change to how sets express rest. Going on the list to think through together with the time-based timer above, since they share infra.
Heart-rate data. The export direction you called out is the cheap win, and you’re right that PWA makes it easy. I’ll push a CSV export of the completed workout (sets, reps, weights, RPE, timestamps, rest durations) in a near term RC. That covers anyone who wants to feed an external analysis pipeline. Live HR ingestion from a BLE chest strap is the heavier direction and goes on the roadmap.
Thanks again for your valuable feedback. Appreciate the level of detail.