Allow me to compare recent trends with long-term averages
This keeps coming up, and you guys keep doing things that aim in the general direction, but I (and I suspect others) still have an unfulfilled use case. I have a tracker where I want to do 20 per day. I can see in the today view that over the 8-9 months I’ve been using Strides, my average is 17.9 per day, so obviously I need to step up my game a bit. What I want to know is: Over the last (week/month/couple months), have I been stepping up my game or not?
Because I’ve accumulated months of data, over-performing on any single day isn’t going to move the long-term average at all. Even consistently over-performing for a week isn’t going to move the long-term average. But, right now, there’s no way for me to tell whether on not I’m on track to get where I want to go.
I thought that the Trends report was supposed to address this use case, but it doesn’t. As mentioned in another comment, changing the tracker to be a per (week/month) goal doesn’t address the use case either, because my goal really is 20 per day.
So, please let me actually see whether or not I’m improving (“making strides”) towards hitting my goals.
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Brendon Towle commented
I have a couple of trackers like this; one I usually log once per day, one I log 1-3 times per day, depending on the day. (All of them are actually tracking minutes spent doing something, as opposed to number of times I did something.)
The rolling average of the last N days/weeks/months would solve a good portion of my problem, but I'd also like to be able to go back and see that, for example, July was where I really did well and/or messed up.
Presumably adding that feature (rolling average over N days/weeks/months) is pretty easy given the infrastructure you've already got in place. That would help considerably, even if it doesn't solve my entire problem. Thanks!!