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Email Weekly / Daily Accomplishments

Former Member over 9 years ago

Hi everyone -

I'm not sure if I am making a feature request or I'm just really missing something.

I want daily / weekly emails that include my progress, badges, accomplishments, etc. Fitbit does this very well which can be totally customized - they even send push notifications to your phone. I couldn't find this anywhere on the Garmin Connect dashboard. I feel like the VivoSmart hardly communicates with me.

Does Garmin not offer this at all or am I completely missing something??

0 scottmeup over 9 years ago

They do but in my opinion a not very good way.

In dashboard of GC web add a new tile for goals.
Then go to calendar full view, view by month. Trust me on this when I say don't go to the goals full view, adding this way is bugged and activities on the final day of a multi day goal will not count.
Click on a date then fill in the details box that opens to the right. Repeat for each time period you want a goal, eg. want a weekly goal to be active for 12 months? Add 52 weekly goals that are identical apart from the start / end date. Because who in their right mind would want a goal to repeat? Not Garmin, that's who.

PS. You have to manually change the goal in the GC dashboard each time it finishes to the next one, because again... who in their right mind would use repeating goals?

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Thanks for the response, but triple nope on this being a solution. BTW, where are Goals? I don't see them anywhere.

The user controls for this feature should be in Notifications and could simply be: Send Daily, Send Weekly and No Emails.

The Email should include the essential progress information of all or at least most of the categories. More advanced user control could make these selectable to customize the email.

Obviously a feature request. Next steps: where do I submit feature requests?

0 scottmeup over 9 years ago

Yeah, I use a weekly goal and even that was a PITA to setup for 12 months - like i mentioned, 52 goals >.<
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/goals Is where they're at, and you add them to your dashboard
( https://connect.garmin.com/modern/ ) with the little bars icon at the top left of the frame.

Suggestions... idk, i think i did that once, there was a link someone on the garmin twitter account posted about it. I get the feeling it goes to some filing cabinet at the bottom of a basement with no stairs guarded by a jaguar fastened by thick chains though so don't hold your breath.