Logging Activities
Logging Activities
Activity logs give your Coach context about your day. They are not a substitute for workout tracking.
Activity logging captures things you do during the day that your wearable does not track: housework, social outings, meditation, study sessions, health routines, and anything else worth noting.
How to Log an Activity
Log an activity the same way you log food — type or speak it on the Log screen. The AI categorizes it automatically.
Examples:
- “Cleaned the house for an hour”
- “30 minutes of meditation”
- “Family dinner out, 2 hours”
- “Practiced guitar for 45 minutes”
The AI extracts a category, duration (if mentioned), and a short summary. The activity appears in your daily journal alongside your nutrition entries and workouts.
Activity Categories
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Health Note | Took supplements, brushed teeth, physical therapy exercises |
| Workout | Volleyball, swimming without a tracker, home exercises |
| Self-Improvement | Reading, meditation, language practice, music practice |
| Social | Family time, phone calls, social events |
| Housework | Cleaning, laundry, errands, yard work |
| Other | Anything that does not fit the above |
What Activities Are For
Activities enrich your Coach’s understanding of your day. If you tell the Coach “I’m exhausted,” it makes a difference whether your activity log shows a 2-hour social event or a 2-hour deep cleaning session. The Coach sees all of your activities and uses them as context for personalized advice.
Activities also appear in your daily journal, creating a more complete picture of each day alongside nutrition and workout data.
What Activities Are NOT For
Activity logs do not affect your Daily Score. They provide context for the Coach, not data for the Auditor. They will never change your Performance Index, your Adherence Multiplier, or any scored metric.
Activities vs. Workouts: The Critical Distinction
This is the most important distinction in this article. Rubric pulls workout data from two sources, and they serve different purposes:
| HealthKit Workouts | Activity Logs | |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Synced automatically from Apple Fitness, Strava, Peloton, or other fitness apps via Apple Health | Logged manually in Rubric |
| Affects Score | Yes (contributes to your Activity Index) | No |
| Affects Protocols | Yes (can auto-evaluate rules like “exercise 3x/week”) | No |
| Visible to Coach | Yes | Yes |
| Editable in Rubric | No (edit in the source app and re-sync) | Yes (edit or delete anytime) |
If you do a workout that your fitness app or Apple Watch tracks, do not also log it as an activity. The data arrives automatically via Apple Health with heart rate, calories burned, and duration already included. Logging it again as an activity creates duplicate context without adding scored data.
When you log something the AI categorizes as a workout, Rubric shows an informational message: the activity has been saved as coaching context, but to track calories and metrics, workouts should be recorded in Apple Fitness or your preferred fitness app.
Editing and Deleting Activities
Tap any activity in your daily journal to open its detail view. From there, you can adjust the time it occurred, edit the details, or delete it entirely. Activities logged manually in Rubric are always editable.
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