Relatedly, it may also potentially be useful to be able to return these values like you can with mood and custom tags.
I’m not sure what you mean by this, can you give me an example?
Sure! For example, a shortcut would be able to retrieve the current value for an attribute - say I had a shortcut called “Get ‘XYZ’s today”, which would get the current ‘XYZ’ value from Exist and return it.
I see, thanks for clarifying. This suggestion is about shortcuts for getting data into Exist. For getting data out of Exist, it would make sense to do this with the iOS Shortcuts app and our API.
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For getting data out of Exist, it would make sense to do this with the iOS Shortcuts app and our API.
Although that is _a possible solution, the beauty of shortcuts is that they break down the developer/user barrier.
With shortcuts most people can knock up what they want. I’ve been a developer for 20+ years with a uni degree, and OAUTH still drives me nuts. If the API key had static token-based auth, that may be easier, but OAUTH makes sense as it’s the way it’s done.
I’ve just started getting into using Shortcuts on iPhone, which is brilliant for making health tracking “workflows” easy. I’ve started setting up Shortcut scripts that I can trigger with homescreen icons, the iPhone’s assignable button, and even NFC tags.
Being able to add Exist tags with Shortcuts is great, but I wanted to add my enthusiastic support for this request so that I can also add mood and manual attributes through Shortcuts. For example, I use a custom quantity attribute in Exist to track varying dosages of a medication I take on an as-needed basis and I really want to create a Shortcut that lets me pick my quantity and then automatically add that to attribute in Exist.
I can imagine it being slightly tricky as I think you’d want to offer separate options to add or replace quantities, and I suppose you’d have to deal with the different data types that custom attributes include. But I hope it’s doable and addable in the near future.
Thanks!