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Natural Language Search

24th Jan, 2026
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Last night I was just chilling and making little tweaks

And decided to give natural language search a go.
I realised when I'm searching for exercises - I don't always know the name.

Sometimes I know the area I want to target or maybe an exercise I did last week but I don't remember what it's called.

You could already search by "other names" for exercises and equipment, but that's fixed and doesn't quite match how people usually search for things.

I figured having some basic natural language searching would go a long way!

Natural language search for exercises
Natural language search for life logs

So now, when i'm searching for an exercise
I can type things like:

  • "Recent" - to get my most recent exericses
  • "Last week" - to see everything I did last week
  • "arms" - to see all the arm exercises
  • etc

I even tied in equipment, muscle groups and exercise types, making it easier to find what i'm looking for just by typing

On the life logs side

  • "weight" - to find where I tracked my weight
  • "selfie" - to find logs with a selfie
  • "notes" - to find logs with notes
  • etc etc

With everything being offline, I am still pretty limited to how clever I can make the search.

But this small change has had a massive impact on searching.

I think with time this could be a really intuitive way to find things in the app, especially as I add more exercises to it.

Anyway I thought this was a cool little side quest and I wanted to share :)
I'll be spending the rest of the weekend getting everything ready for the stores!

Thanks for reading

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