If there’s anything less enjoyable than actually going to the gym, it’s filling out a Wellness Diary afterwards. Like a nagging personal trainer, this app from Nokia Beta Labs wants to know the tiniest details of your daily life in the hope of getting you to swap your pies for Pilates.
The Wellness Diary is an easy install but that’s where the fun stops. The main screens shows (at least) ten separate categories that have to be filled out (at least) once a day. When you wake up, you need to type in not only when you nodded off and when the alarm went off, but rate the quality of your slumber.
The highest level (9) is presumably the deep slumber you get in a warm, soft bed when woken gently by the smell of breakfast, while -1 corresponds to lying on a bed of nails in a walk-in fridge playing grime at 150dB.
Throughout the day, you should record everything that passes your lips (apart from swearwords at how long this is all taking), including all your food, cigarettes and alcohol, the exact calories consumed and whether your meals were healthy or not. Naturally, you’re encouraged to record your daily weight, as well as stress and tiredness levels, body fat percentage, blood pressure, waist circumference, working time and doctor visits.
If that wasn’t enough exercise, you also have to record every time you burn a single one of those calories, rating activities by intensity, duration and type. The Wellness Diary lists a huge range of possible workouts, from the decidedly Finnish ‘skiing’ and ‘slalom’ to the mysterious ‘Nordic walking’.
Once you’ve done all that, you can see graph views of your life reduced to numbers, track whether you’re meeting standardised or personal targets, and email or text your performance to others.
Essentially, this is a big fat waste of time. It takes a huge amount of effort to keep the diary complete, and beyond showing figures in different colours depending on whether you’re meeting numerical targets, there’s no genuine lifestyle guidance. NokNok’s view? If you spent the time making yourself some healthy food, going for a ride or getting some 9-rated sleep instead, you’ll feel a lot, er, well-er.
Details
Size: 2MB
Price: Free
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