I love moves. It's useful in so many ways. Just some of the ways I've used Moves that are outside of what I ever intended it for:
- Can I make this bus? How long did it take me to walk from the doctors office last time?
- I dropped my keys while walking the dog. I sent my wife a screenshot of my route and she walked it and found it.
- Where did we park the car?
- Do we have time to brunch? Looks like over the last few weeks we spend about 30-40 mins at that restaurant each time.
Plus, moves has definitely contributed to my exercise routine by forcing me to reckon exactly with what I accomplished. Now, I consider myself a very fit, very active person. If I was actually trying to lose weight and had specific fitness goals I would love the unbiased data this gives me.
My wife and I both use it. There are 2 big things I wish I could change:
1. SHOW ME TOTAL CALORIES GODDAMNIT. I'm so sick of adding up the bubbles. I usually hit 4-5k calories a week. The fact that I know that indicates how many times I've added up bubbles in my head.
2. For all the non-tracked activities, please let me enter a calorie count and not just a duration. If I spend 45 mins on the elliptical at high resistance, the computer will tell me I burned maybe 700 calories. If I enter 45 mins of elliptical into Moves it defaults to like 250 or whatever. This IS based on my body weight, height, etc, but it's an imperfect measure. So I have to lie and tell moves I did 120 mins or whatever to get as close as I can to the actual calories as measured by the machine.
Also, may I add one final comment:
I wish all of the privacy-wonk types would just avert their gaze from Moves. We get it. You don't like Facebook. You don't like being tracked. You think I'm a fool for loving it. But THIS IS A TRACKER. That's what it does. If you're very concerned about this stuff, Moves is obviously not for you.
Interesting stuff, I created an App for Moves called CleverGeo (https://clevergeo.com), I'd love to hear any more thoughts on things that you find interesting from the Moves data. My email is clevergeo@rythie.com if you want to help.
I'm a sucker for this. I know I am a sucker, but I can't help myself. I've loved Move's visualizations since it was a random free app I downloaded and forgot about, and I've already spent far too long zooming in and out on this webmap.
Zooming out to a "regional" level with the circles showing activity centers is pretty interesting. Wonder if the NSA interface to similar looks like this. Thanks for sharing the data (as crazy as I might think that is =) ).
"We may share information, including personally identifying information, with our Affiliates (companies that are part of our corporate groups of companies, including but not limited to Facebook)" https://www.moves-app.com/privacy
This confirms what I already know: live in Seattle, and walk to one particular coffee shop a hell of a lot. Kinda makes me want to change things up a bit.
Also amusingly I haven't opened up Moves since before the Facebook acquisition; when I did, it put up a completely black screen with the word "Proceed" at the bottom. I assume this was supposed to be showing me the new terms and conditions but who knows?
i know there is google's location history but I want to do it storing the data locally on my android phone, and recommendations. I have it half assed right now with tasker
I deleted my moves account last weekend and exported all my data, i dont trust facebook with all this data.. but then i logged in into google and saw this: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory
- Can I make this bus? How long did it take me to walk from the doctors office last time? - I dropped my keys while walking the dog. I sent my wife a screenshot of my route and she walked it and found it. - Where did we park the car? - Do we have time to brunch? Looks like over the last few weeks we spend about 30-40 mins at that restaurant each time.
Plus, moves has definitely contributed to my exercise routine by forcing me to reckon exactly with what I accomplished. Now, I consider myself a very fit, very active person. If I was actually trying to lose weight and had specific fitness goals I would love the unbiased data this gives me.
My wife and I both use it. There are 2 big things I wish I could change:
1. SHOW ME TOTAL CALORIES GODDAMNIT. I'm so sick of adding up the bubbles. I usually hit 4-5k calories a week. The fact that I know that indicates how many times I've added up bubbles in my head.
2. For all the non-tracked activities, please let me enter a calorie count and not just a duration. If I spend 45 mins on the elliptical at high resistance, the computer will tell me I burned maybe 700 calories. If I enter 45 mins of elliptical into Moves it defaults to like 250 or whatever. This IS based on my body weight, height, etc, but it's an imperfect measure. So I have to lie and tell moves I did 120 mins or whatever to get as close as I can to the actual calories as measured by the machine.
Also, may I add one final comment: I wish all of the privacy-wonk types would just avert their gaze from Moves. We get it. You don't like Facebook. You don't like being tracked. You think I'm a fool for loving it. But THIS IS A TRACKER. That's what it does. If you're very concerned about this stuff, Moves is obviously not for you.