☑ The Tick And The Card Do Different Jobs
The checkbox decides whether a track is drawn on the map. Tick as many as you
like — each gets its own color.
Clicking the card focuses one track. The figures, the name editor and the trim
sliders all act on the focused track, whatever else is drawn.
Ticking a box also focuses that track, because that is what you mean the first
time you tick one. After that the two move independently — which is why the numbers
can describe a track that is not the one you just ticked.
The page opens with just your newest track drawn, not everything you have ever
recorded. Tick more as you want them.
✂️ Trim Hides, It Does Not Delete
The trim sliders set a start and an end. Points outside them stop counting — distance,
averages and top speed are all recomputed — but nothing is thrown away. Widen
the sliders again and the whole recording comes back.
Use it for the walk to the car at each end of a ride, or a stretch of stationary drift that
is dragging your moving average down.
The figures update on the next load rather than the instant you drag, because
trimming changes the numbers without adding a point. A track showing its old distance for a
moment has not failed to trim.
The same is true the first time you open a long history: distances are measured a
batch at a time, so some tracks arrive without figures and the line under the list
tells you how many are still coming. Press Refresh and they fill in.
🔍 Search, And What The Colors Mean
Search looks in the name, the activity and the notes at once. Every word you type has
to appear somewhere in those three — so kayak eddyline finds the paddle whose
notes mention the eddyline, and typing a second word narrows rather than widens.
It searches all your tracks, not just the ones on screen, and the count reads
“3 of 41” so you can always see how much of your history matched. Searching
filters the list only — anything you have ticked stays on the map.
Color by shades the line by speed or by elevation, always relative to that track's
own range: the slowest part of a gentle stroll still shows blue. The legend beside it tells
you which scale you are looking at.
Elevation gain ignores GPS wobble. A phone lying still reports tens of meters
of “climb” if you simply add up every upward reading, so small rises have to be
sustained before they count. A flat walk showing no gain is right, not broken.
⚠ Delete And Merge Are The Permanent Ones
Delete removes the track and every point in it. The confirmation tells you how many
points that is — read the number, because there is no undo and no trash.
Merge folds one track into another. The two become one recording and the one you
folded in stops existing separately; it cannot be split apart again.
If you only want a track out of the way, untick it — that hides it from
the map and changes nothing. Trim is reversible; these two are not.