Suggestions to improve user experience on Activity Diary Android App: Improve the Diary section of the app.

Repository

https://github.com/ramack/ActivityDiary

Components

The activity diary is amazing. I've been using it since the beginning of this year and it has been helpful.
However, I had some issues with the diary.

There are two issues to be precise.

• Inability to delete an activity registered in the diary.
• How the dairy is being displayed.

Proposal Description

Inability to delete an activity registered in the diary.

The reason why this is an issue for me is because, starting an activity on the app is quite loose. By loose I mean too easy to execute. Often times I make the mistake of starting a wrong activity and once I stop that activity, it registers on the diary.
If on the diary I'm able to delete this unwanted activity, it wouldn't have been a problem.

My suggestion.

To solve the problem of unwanted activity, it's either users have to be extremely careful when starting an activity, so they don't start the wrong one. Or, another way is by initiating a confirmation protocol. That is, when a user wants to start an activity, he has to confirm if that's the activity he wants to start.
Again, even with that protocol initiated, some people might still end up starting the wrong activity.
That's why in my opinion, it will be great if activities can be deleted off the diary.

Here is a mockup of my above suggestion.

Creating a mockup for this suggestion would be a little tricky. Now, you will have to assume that I've clicked on an activity and I want to confirm it.

So here's how the confirmation dialog box could be on the app;

After the activity has started, it registers in the Diary;

From the picture above resting is the activity I just started 4 minutes ago. Now, that was unintentional. So I want to delete it.

Clicking on that activity would show me more details of the activity. That is if I added a picture or a note. So to access the delete option, I will have to long-press on the activity.
So assume I have done that here's the delete dialog;

How the dairy is being displayed.

Another issue I had with the diary was how it was being displayed. Every activity you perform in a day within a time frame is registered in the diary.
The problem is how these activities are displayed in the diary. It's in a list format. What this means is that, if I want to check out an activity I did probably several months ago, I will have to engage in intense scrolling, which I didn't quite fancy. Although there's a search tool, I don't think it solves the problem completely.

My suggestion.

My suggestion would be to replace the current diary view to a calendar. Now with a calendar, dates would be easier to sort. I can easily go back and forth in time to view all the activities I have performed.
If the diary is in a calendar format, I can just pick a previous date and check out the activities I performed that day, that is if I tracked them that day.

Here is a mockup of the above suggestion.

This is the current view of the Diary;

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Here is how it would be like if my suggestion is implemented.

Now the diary is a calendar.

On the calendar you will see some dates in red color. What this would signify is that I recorded an activity or some activities that day. While the dates in black means no activity was recorded that day.

Benefits

• Being able to delete activities off the diary would help users delete irrelevant stuffs from the diary. Especially those caused by the mistake of starting a wrong activity.
• The confirmation protocol would help to reduce the risk of starting a wrong activity
• The diary in calendar format would enable faster and organized navigation.

GitHub Account

https://github.com/HarryHeights