I started all of this three weeks ago when I started using FitDay, an online food diary/nutrition tracker. I really liked the ability to microtrack all of my nutrition, and I've been recording my intake religiously.
The website frequently shows an ad for purchasing the PC version, allowing for more detailed charts and whatnot. Today, I decided that it would be great to e able to do it, so I shelled out the $20 and installed it.
The single biggest problem I have is that it has NO hooks into the website. None. I read through the software description, and in my opinion, anyone would assume that it would. There's no way to import external data (and the website offers no way of exporting). I'm going to try and take apart the local database and see if I can write some pipe to spit data from the site into the proper db format. We'll see.
I haven't delved deeper into the software (I'll be damned if I reenter the last three weeks of data) as I have no data sets to work with.
I'll be shooting the FitDay folks a cranky email tomorrow; it's rather disingenuous to present this software package that is apparently advertised as a companion to the website when there is no connectivity.
Now, FAT MAN MUST SLEEP.
20 March 2008
FitDay disappointment
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I was wondering about that software as well. Glad that I now know that it doesn't do the link to the site data. Sad that I know this at your expense. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteps: let us know if you have any success porting it.