Feature Idea: resume activity reminder

I often forget to resume my activities and loose a lot of my recorded track.

Do you think it would be possible to have the watch remind me? It could watch for rhythmic movements: detecting continuous walking could be easy, a recurring pattern of a paddle stroke, the detection if I'm riding a bike works really well.

The watch could then vibrate, beep and ask me something like "did you forget to resume your activity?"
Options for that would be "yes thank you, resume recording", "no, don't bother me for 5 minutes", "no, don't bother me for 10 minutes"

What do you think, possible, not realistic, could it be done better?

Or just an uncomplicated "dumb" option like "vibrate x minutes if activity is paused", I guess that could work as a reminder too. But could be annoying on a longer Pause. The watch could ask when stopping how long I assume I will be pausing, and start the interval-vibrate after that time has passed, but that makes it complicated again.

Top Replies

All Replies

0 C.sco over 3 years ago

I have this happen sometimes, too, and I agree it would be nice for there to be some way to avoid it in the future - not sure what the best way would be, though

0 avikoren1 over 3 years ago in reply to C.sco

i use auto pause for biking, not sure how this will work for you but you can give it a try. with auto pause you set a speed threshold

0 muppetman over 3 years ago

This is a GREAT idea!! I do this all the time, pause an activity then only remember to resume it 15 minutes after I started it.

Please Garmin look at this one!!

0 C.sco over 3 years ago in reply to avikoren1

I don't really bike much. For hiking, autopause is terrible, it doesn't pause or un-pause at all when it should. Also, I don't typically like to pause my recording just for short rests or stops, as I like to have it continue counting my HR and calories during that time. I only pause it when I'm stopping for an extended period, like to have lunch or do a little fishing. So that's why I only use manual pause, so that I have some control over that.

0 KrapfenKringel over 3 years ago in reply to avikoren1

No, that's not available for all activities (for example the water sports) and it should work for stationary activities too.

0 KrapfenKringel over 3 years ago

Anyone else with ideas how to implement this in an efficient way?

0 5724083 over 3 years ago

This is a great idea, can someone submit this as a feature request to Garmin and link to this thread?

0 bluefish over 3 years ago in reply to 5724083

Yes, you can do that :

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/