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How to make the best of the new interface?

KrapfenKringel
7 months ago

My first thought was, do I need the side-scrolling "In Focus" at all? But disabling it costs me one directly visible information slot in the App and six on the Desktop.

So I need to find one widget that is important enough to be shown right in second place after todays activities on the phone and 5 more that are not that important so I don't have to side-scroll, but still important enough to be on top in the Desktop view (like sleep, HRV, weight graph, but then the last two are not even available). I don't even see 6 relevant (for me) widgets that I could use the space for "in focus" on Desktop fully.

Then there is eight slots in "overview" in both. Or I could bookmark my Desktop view to "show all" and have 20 info slots on Desktop. But them I'm loosing in focus there, or I double the Information I have in "in focus" so I can see everything at once on Desktop (14 (6+8) vs. 20 information slots) and have "in focus" on the phone (where I probably won't expand "overview").

I would also have to look at what widgets have more value when shown in "in focus" instead of "overview".

But all that does not help that I am now missing:

  • my last 10 activities
  • calendar view
  • statistics of last activity
  • weight over several days
  • 7 day steps graph
  • heartrate graph with activity icons
  • badges
  • solar intensity

And of course it's dumb to have to scroll so much on desktop when it has unused space in width.

  • 0 7 months ago

    Well, at least it's more OCD-friendly. Those misalignments in the past bothered me. Laughing

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to Frederick

    I am inordinately irritated by the imbalance on the new home page. It's jarring! In combination with the inability to display the metrics that I value, it's a constant jarring reminder that Garmin just changed the really excellent product I purchased to one that does not provide me what I actually bought it for. 

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to ShiftKicker
    ShiftKicker said:
    inability to display the metrics that I value

    I agree with this, but I can't deny the alignment was spot on. If there's anything that was well thought of in this new design (SmileClown) it's those lines.

     

    Jokes aside, I'm not seeing a 1 year graph for respiration, sleep score, etc. or goals right from the home screen. That was my whole point of going to Connect Web—an in-depth analysis of my data. Now it's dependent of whether I synched y watch or not (today's data). Why have this been limited to what I can also see in phone and tablet? Face palm

  • 0 7 months ago

    I do not want to cool down your enthusiasm, but have you tried different screen resolution? 

    In Web browser usually you can select zoom factor. Try to go closer with larger fonts. There are people who needs glasses to read and larger fonts are easier. 

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to pdurys

    Nice catch! This is my view with iPad. Same behavior happened when I zoomed in using Desktop computer. I don't even wan't to try phone. It made the best effort to keep the alignment but the scrolling increases. There looks to be a lot of people that wouldn't like more scrolling. Haha!

    This update is unreal. Rolling eyes

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to Frederick

    I prefer them unaligned if the solution is more that 50% empty screen space.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

    On mobile its craaaaazy! Look at weight! Scream

  • 0 7 months ago

    The Homepage has nothing on it I want to see.

    I used to have:

    - My latest activity (still get that in a briefer form on the new home page)

    - My Connections activities

    - List of my recent activities

    I've rebookmarked my browser to go straight to the Newsfeed where I can see Activities by myself and friends in full.

  • 0 7 months ago

    I settled with using this as my dashboard, to much missing otherwise. Not directly missing but I would have to move some things up, but then they would also be up on the phone where I do care about other stats. Downside is I'm not getting anything on my activities.

    connect.garmin.com/.../viewAllSecondaryStats

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

    Currently I have a Garmin Edge 830 cycle computer and only use Garmin Connect to collect the statistics for my rides, nothing else. I have been doing this for some 12 years and had my dashboard set up to show me everything I felt I needed to know, including when my gear, including sensor batteries, were coming up for replacement. It was so easy. I have now downloaded all my ride data into a spreadsheet and spent last week rebuilding a replica of my dashboard in Apple Numbers. It is not quite as good as my old Garmin Dashboard, but it is not so bad either. I have Garnin's new HomePage set up to show me just my last ride as a shortcut to all the data. I now have to download all the data for each ride into the spreadsheet but it only takes a few minutes. I think that Garmin has done us a great disservice by no longer making the Dashboard available to those who still want to use it, but this has been my work around.