I’m working on a new feature this week to help with training monitoring on datatoy. I’m sending tweets like this to track my efforts towards summer bike fitness:
*biketraining 21Km
The new feature is going to work like this NOTE - this isn’t live yet I’ll update this post when it is
target *biketraining 100km
This sets a new target for my bike training - to cover 100km.This is a simple target, no deadline or other details. It will work for anything else too - like calories or A grades or episodes of Heroes.
We can check our target by sending a request:
*biketraining ?target
Which will send a summary tweet back informing you that of 100Km you have 80Km remaining, and (probably) when the target was initially set.
Here’s the question Do you want to receive that summary as an automated response every time you tweet towards that target?
We’ll certainly send a congrats tweet when you reach the target - and a continual feedback would be nice - but I’m aware that one of the top objectives of datatoy is specifically NOT to swamp your twitter feed with updates.