Body Accounting

Ever been at an endless meeting at work or in an exhausting gathering with your in-laws? These (and many other) events can be very draining, but how draining exactly?

Or what about the opposite, do the activities, that you think of as relaxing, really calm you down? I find myself often thinking: "I need a break" and then end up only scrolling through social media or news, and that does not reduce my stress level.

The build-in stress and body-battery widgets show you some data about stress and body battery, but only for a fixed time-frame. My Instinct 2 only shows data of the last 3h in the case of stress and data since-midnight in the case of body-battery. So I've created the "Body Accounting" app, that helps me to quickly find out how tiring or relaxing a time frame was.

Usage:

Check your body battery / stress

  1. Select if you want to check the history of body battery of stress
  2. Select the time frame
  3. The app shows:
    1. what the body-battery was at the beginning of the time-frame and what it is now
    2. the average stress over the course of the time-frame
    3. what the max/min values of body-battery or stress have been over the time-frame

Rest Reminder

  1. Select the "Rest Reminder" menu item
  2. Inside of every sub-menu you can select
    1. if you want to track stress / body battery at all
    2. the threshold
    3. the timeframe to check
  3. The watch will check every 15min whether
    1. the average stress during the set timeframe is higher than the set threshold
    2. you have lost more body-battery during the set timeframe than what you have set the threshold to
  4. In the case one or both cases of (3.) are true the watch will
    1. beep
    2. vibrate
    3. show a small notification with a summary e.g. (BB: 27/1:30h St: 72/2:00)
    4. if you select "Yes" in that screen the app will be started

Screenshots:

Link to the app: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/41303aaf-573b-4f8f-b2e2-30bee1f405c2

Other ideas:

  1. shows graphs done ✓
  2. add a rest-reminder, that will notify the user if too much body-battery was lost over a certain time or the stress level was too high for a while done ✓

This is a paid app, but I'm more than happy to give it out for free, if you can help with further development (useful ideas for improvement, help with translation, etc.)

I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas

  • > Hey, did you plan to add an option to mute alerts if there is an activity running? 

    Yes I got annoyed by that myself. During and shortly after an activity the reminder should not fire, specially if its measuring the Body Battery loss

  • > Hello big fan, you said you need help? I could translate the App to German if that helps.

    great, thank you. could you contact me via the "contact developer" link, then we can chat by Email