Clean Up Old Workout Names With Your Own Rules

A muse can work through a fitness app full of workouts all called Morning Run, rename them using rules you set about dates, places, and who you were with, and keep a log of every change so you can check or undo the work.

What it does

Fitness apps save most sessions with a plain auto name. After a year, your history is a long list of near-identical titles, and finding a specific run gets hard. You give the muse clear naming rules instead of renaming each session by hand. For example, a session gets the route or place in its name, plus the names of the people you trained with when they were there. The muse goes through the old sessions that match your rules, renames them in the app, and writes a log file listing what each session was called before and after. It can also read back your history in words, summarizing trends that the app only shows as charts, and line those trends up with health data you choose to share.

How to use it

1. Write your naming rules in plain words: what goes in a name, in what order, and which sessions count as generic and need fixing.
2. Pick a small test set first, such as one month of sessions, and let the muse rename only those.
3. Read the log file it keeps. Check a few renamed sessions in the app against the log before you go further.
4. Once the test month looks right, let the muse work through the rest in batches, and skim the log after each batch.
5. Save the final log somewhere safe. It is your record of the old names if you ever want to change anything back.

What you need

• A muse account
• A fitness app account holding the workout history you want cleaned up
• Naming rules written once, with two or three worked examples

What to watch for

• Start small. A loose rule applied to hundreds of sessions at once can rename things you meant to leave alone, and the log is much easier to check in batches.
• Rules need examples. Dates and places are easy to read from a session; who you were with may only be right when that detail is recorded somewhere, so say where to look.
• A summary in words is a reading of the same data, not a medical view. For health questions, take the numbers to a professional.
• The muse does the renaming, you decide the rules and what stays untouched.