I would really just like access to all my historical data, so I can compare metrics beyond just the past 30 days. More columns in the current graph with sideways scrolling would be all I need.

Correlations are often very obvious (e.g. Your weight is higher after you get fewer steps.) and I’d prefer to be able to see trends in all metrics with all the history available.

If I can see that my steps started declining, I ate more calories, and it was cool and rainy then it would make a lot more sense why I gained weight in the fall compared to the summer.

Yeah, as part of this we’ll be working out the best way to get more stuff into the mobile apps 😊

Will this update include something like an interface to access old personal data?

I don’t really see the point of editing short diary entries every day for example, if I can’t actually review them later down the line. Knowing what my thoughts were or what happened on the same day 3 years ago for example (if I do have that data in the app) would be very useful to me.

From what I can tell, you can only see data from the last 7 days (beside the current) at any time.

The redesign will include some historical browsing options. We also have a feature already that shows your mood from this day one year ago, once you have enough data. In future we’re thinking about making this feature work differently so you don’t need to wait a whole year to get the benefit of it.

You can browse any past day from the Mood tab currently. There’s a calendar picker that lets you go back as far as you like.

Any update on when the new design might start rolling out?

When it’s done! It’s still very much in progress. It doesn’t say “tiny web app redesign”, after all.

:) Its true.

Curious if you guys have thought about changing in some way the input for custom tags? I’m currently tracking around 300 tags right now (I’d venture at least 40% are not helpful, but which ones I don’t know yet), and finding it hard to manage it all.

I’m pretty sure that you’re quite an outlier here so this isn’t something we’re going to be addressing. Our advice generally is to start with way, way fewer, each one having some clear meaning to you, and gradually build them up.

curious how you guys are doing your prioritisaion - there are other features with higher votes that are older in the suggestion queue - wouldn’t you draw more users by having more functionality if we’re not voting on the web-based interface ? understand it has to be done at some point- but there are basic features waiting that have been outstanding longer with more votes

While votes are important for helping us understand how many users would benefit from a particular feature or integration, we also have lots of other information to take into account when prioritising our work. For instance, direct feedback from users via social media or email, and our annual survey are both useful for gathering feedback. We also use automated emails for new users to request feedback on their experience. On top of all user feedback, we have to make decisions at the end of the day that we’re comfortable with in terms of where we want Exist to go in the future. Sometimes a request may be very popular among users but not fit with our plans for Exist. Other times users may not vote for a new feature because they don’t understand the benefits of it, but we know that it will improve lots of areas we’ve had feedback on in the past.

The web redesign fits into this last category. Working from direct feedback and our annual surveys, we’ve been able to identify areas where Exist could be more useful and more user-friendly, and ways to take better advantage of the features and integrations we already have. The redesign will improve the experience for lots of users, and we’re confident it’s worth prioritising.

Hope that helps explain it! Feel free to learn more about our most recent annual survey results here, too: http://blog.hellocode.co/post/exist-survey-2017/

Update: well, I think I’ve been too ambitious in trying to roll all of the planned changes into one update. It’s taking too long. I’m now going to try to get out what’s done and nearly done as soon as possible, leaving a second chunk to come later. This means ability to rate and hide correlations, and the historical dashboard browsing are planned for release soon, but other changes like multi-day correlations will come later. Sorry everyone.

@Josh I think it would be helpful if there was some breakdown of what changes are planned under “Major web app redesign”. We understand the general gist of it, but a more detailed list could better communicate the size of the task and help with communicating how far along you are in its development. Just a suggestion from a new user seeing something considered “in progress” for six months. :)

Yeah, totally fair. Given I’ve split it into smaller features, some of which are coming soon and some that are pushed back, I’ll add the current lot under in-progress to clarify.

We’ve tried to keep to small regular updates in general, and have done that successfully for years — now the one time I’ve broken that policy, it’s backfired 😅 I’ve updated the list with some specific tasks btw.

Brilliant, thanks Josh!

And no worries, as a fellow dev I can sympathize. Scoping is hard.

The first part of the redesign is now done! I hope you enjoy it. Please email us if you have any issues or feedback.

Congrats!! :)

Thank you friends :)