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A personalized coaching app for health and wellness.
The past few months have been tough. There’s no denying it. We’ve all been under more stress and with more people staying home, it becomes harder to define work vs. free time. This exact situation is why health and wellness apps are designed — to help people manage their time and make the most of it. Trana is one of those apps. It was created to provide users with a definition of ‘Primetime,’ or the time of day where your body performs at its peak level. According to the app description, if you know your Primetime, you can strategically schedule your day so that you are working smarter and not harder.
DETAILS
Trana was developed to help users make the most of their daily time by defining their “Primetime.” Primetime is a person’s peak time of day (1-hour period of time) when they are supposed to be at their best. Trana helps a person find their Primetime by asking for demographic and biologic data when you set up the app. It will also work with data provided by Apple Health Kit. Trana also uses a person’s circadian rhythm to factor into its learning algorithm because sleep plays a big part in a person’s Primetime. Trana prompts users to complete daily challenges during their Primetime to make the most of it. The challenges only take 5-10 minutes per day and they focus on one of three different paths — Health, Mindfulness, or Productivity. Each day of the week has a unique theme and users can hear from health and wellness experts and influencers. Over time, users can see how they’ve improved on each challenge and how the body responds to activity during Primetime in comparison to non-Primetime.
USER EXPERIENCE
One of the first things I noticed when I found Trana in the App Store was the rating of 3.3 from 60 ratings. I also noticed that it is described as a “Daily Fitness Challenge.” While that’s not a terrible description, it’s not exactly true because it’s not just a workout app. The app is free and does not require a subscription, which is good because I would not pay for it. Before I go any farther I want to say that I try really hard to find the good in everything, but this app just doesn’t make sense to me. It’s not that the concept doesn’t make sense it’s that the function of the app doesn’t make sense. All it seems to do is pull information from other apps — namely Apple Health Kit.
In addition to the information it pulls in from Health Kit, the app starts off by asking for basic demographic information including Sex, Age, Height, Weight, and by answering the question, “When do you feel the most energetic?” Once you’ve answered these questions, the app tells you what your Primetime hour is. The weird thing about this definition is that the user has the option to move the Primetime to another time. When I first entered my data, I said that I felt most energetic in the morning and then the app suggested a Primetime of 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Well, for me, that isn’t very convenient since it falls in the middle of my workday. So, I dragged the Primetime needle to 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. What’s weird about that to me is that one of the selling points of the app is that it helps you find your Primetime so that your day can be arranged around that. I didn’t think it made sense to allow users to reset their Primetime manually. It sort of defeats the purpose of the app in my opinion.
The set-up process also says that the app will notify you when it’s your Primetime. The app has not once popped up a notification for me. Because of that, I’ve missed my Primetime several days in a row. I ended up selecting the Mindfulness Path to help with centering my emotional focus. I was expecting some sort of breathing exercises and maybe some meditation. After you set your path, the app will shift to show that particular design and content. For me, I received a message about unwinding after a long week since I began my journey on a Sunday. The home screen of the app has some tips to follow and then a start button for the Primetime activity. When I tapped on ‘start,’ I was taken to the next screen, which showed a video entitled, “Creating a Zen Space” and the Primetime challenge description. Beneath the description is what looks like a radio button that you select once you’ve finished an activity. What I found was that the video focused more on the topic of ‘me time’ and self-care and not really about Zen Spaces. I also found it strange that the VoiceOver was talking about self-care, but the visual was a woman getting a shower and rubbing her face. It just didn’t seem to fit. Also, the Challenge Task radio button could not be selected.
According to the Trana website, the app uses “best-in-class circadian rhythm tracking technology to provide information on your body’s internal clock.” I do wonder about this claim as there is no connected device that provides this information to the Trana app. In fact, if I didn’t have a sleep tracker (SleepIQ in my case) already connected, there would be no sleep data for Trana to use.
CONCLUSIONS
Even though I like the general concept of this app I think its development is flawed. The interface looks nice, but the function doesn’t seem to work correctly at all. There was no challenge for me to complete and if I can’t complete a challenge how is the algorithm supposed to learn anything? I also found it discouraging that the same day was repeated. For example, when it was Monday, it was still showing the content for Sunday. Because of the issues I’ve had with it, I can’t recommend the app at this time.
For more information, visit Trana.io, Facebook, and Twitter.
Whether you want to organize your day-to-day life a little better or are just want to know what day of the week your birthday falls on, the Calendar on your Mac can help you out. As with a lot of Apple software, your Calendar is synced with all your devices through iCloud as long as they are all signed into the same Apple ID.
How to add a calendar on Mac
In the Calendar app, you can see and view multiple calendars making it easy to differentiate your work meetings and appointments from your personal engagements and events. No matter how busy your life gets, you can add as many calendars as you want.
- Launch the Calendar app on your Mac. If it's not on your dock, you can find it in your Launchpad.
Click on File up in the menu bar.
- Click on New Calendar
- Type a name for the Calendar
Hit Enter.
How to add an event to a calendar on Mac
- Launch the Calendar app on your Mac. If it's not on your dock, you can find it in your Launchpad.
Double click on the date you want to add an event to.
- Type in a name for the event.
Click on the hour, minutes, and AM/PM of the start time and adjust accordingly.
- Click on the hour, minutes, and AM/PM of the end time and adjust accordingly.
- Click on Repeat if you want the event to repeat. This is an optional step.
- Click on Travel time if you want to add a note for yourself of how long it will take you to get there. This is an optional step.
Click on Alert if you want to set up notifications for the event. This is an optional step.
- Tap the calendar menu it's the little colored box in the top right corner of the event window.
- Click on the calendar you want the event to be added to.
Hit Enter on your keyboard.
How to set days per week and start of week in Calendar on Mac
Depending on how you like to schedule your life, you can modify how the week appears in your calendars. You can change how many days you see when you're in Week View and what day indicates the start of a new week.
How to set the days per week in week view in Calendar on Mac
- Launch the Calendar app on your Mac. If it's not on your dock, you can find it in your Launchpad.
Click the Week tab.
- Click Calendar from the menu bar.
Click Preferences.
- Click on the dropdown menu beside Days per week.
Click on 5 or 7.
How to change the start of the week in Calendar on Mac
- Launch the Calendar app on your Mac. If it's not on your dock, you can find it in your Launchpad.
Click the Week tab.
- Click Calendar from the menu bar.
Click Preferences.
- Click on the dropdown menu beside Start week on.
Click the day you want to use.
How to set how often Calender refreshes.
If you want all your calendars across all your device to sync automatically or you'd rather push them manually, you can change the time between refreshes in your preferences.
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- Launch the Calendar app on your Mac. If it's not on your dock, you can find it in your Launchpad.
Click Calendar from the menu bar.
- Click Preferences.
Click on the Accounts tab.
- Click on the dropdown menu.
Click on the time interval you want.
How to set notifications in Calendar on Mac
While you can customize alerts for events when you create them, if you want to save yourself some time, you can set all events you create to have default notifications.
- Launch the Calendar app on your Mac. If it's not on your dock, you can find it in your Launchpad.
Click Calendar from the menu bar.
- Click Preferences.
Click on the Alerts tab.
- Click on the Events dropdown menu.
Click on the time you want notifications to alert you.
How to enable and disable calendars on Mac
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If you want to quickly filter the events you see on your Calendar, you can easily enable or disable the visible calendars whenever you want.
- Launch the Calendar app on your Mac. If it's not on your dock, you can find it in your Launchpad.
Click Calendars.
- Click the check box beside the calendar you want to disable.
Click the check box again when you want to view that calendar again.
Questions?
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