Natural Language Search

Last night I was just chilling and making little tweaks

And decided to give natural language search a go.
I realised when I'm searching for exercises - I don't always know the name.

Sometimes I know the area I want to target or maybe an exercise I did last week but I don't remember what it's called.

You could already search by "other names" for exercises and equipment, but that's fixed and doesn't quite match how people usually search for things.

I figured having some basic natural language searching would go a long way!

So now, when i'm searching for an exercise
I can type things like:

• "Recent" - to get my most recent exericses
• "Last week" - to see everything I did last week
• "arms" - to see all the arm exercises
• etc

I even tied in equipment, muscle groups and exercise types, making it easier to find what i'm looking for just by typing

On the life logs side

• "weight" - to find where I tracked my weight
• "selfie" - to find logs with a selfie
• "notes" - to find logs with notes
• etc etc

With everything being offline, I am still pretty limited to how clever I can make the search.

But this small change has had a massive impact on searching.

I think with time this could be a really intuitive way to find things in the app, especially as I add more exercises to it.

Anyway I thought this was a cool little side quest and I wanted to share :)
I'll be spending the rest of the weekend getting everything ready for the stores!

Thanks for reading