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Offline mood and tags tracking

I was surprised to find that the mobile app (I’m using Android, but I get the sense that this feature isn’t present in either OS) wouldn’t let me record moods and custom tags data when I was traveling recently without Internet access. Manually entered data on moods and other activities is exactly the kind of thing I want to record when I’m not connected to the Internet, and it seems technically feasible to do so, with syncing once the device is back online.

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Tagged as Mobile

Suggested 30 July 2018 by user Nick

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    Big +1 for me. Just ran into this issue as well.

    It makes it quite hard to record tags / events when there’s little to no cell coverage. E.G. commuters that go through tunnels or the air.

    There is a “failed to save tags…” notification that does try to persist in the android notification bar, but it’s not impossible to dismiss the notification.

    1. No cel l
    11 June 2019
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    +1 as well - just found that the app basically won’t update anything unless you have a network connection. I’d really like it to save/cache any changes and then sync up once it has network connection again. This would be particularly bad if for example you were off-grid (backcountry/camping trip or similar).

    29 March 2023
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    Same, so surprised this still isn’t a feature. I just lost about 2 weeks of data input because I had no cell Service on a trip

    09 September 2024
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    Doesn’t the app do this now? I occasionally get a notification when I have a poor network connection that syncing failed and I need to retry. I’m not sure where or for how long my local changes are stored, though, so it’s possible they might be lost if I close the app or reboot my phone before syncing.

    15 September
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    Ed Kolis - no, it still doesn’t really. Yes, it will at least now tell you it can’t do the update, but the only options are to discard the change, or retry. Thus, you really can’t do any updates unless you have a network connection. What I think most of us are after, is that the app saves that update locally, and then sync’s it up when it next has a network connection.

    16 September
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    Oh, so once you make one change and the app tells you it can’t sync, you can’t make any additional changes until you’re able to sync again? I guess I never noticed that!

    17 September