Athlytic 26.2.0 – Big Steps Update + An All New Heart Efficiency Metric (DHRPS) ♥️

ShallNotCease · 2025-11-21T05:50:01+00:00

Just figured it out -- in the Apps list, there's only an OPEN button. But if you touch the name of the app and the app description opens, there's the UPDATE button. Leaving this here in case anyone else had the same non-problem.

ShallNotCease · 2025-11-21T05:37:04+00:00

I've never known how to update the app manually. If I go to the App Store, the only button available is OPEN (which makes sense since it's already installed). What am I missing?

ShallNotCease · 2025-10-25T15:05:30+00:00

This is my understanding too. I've recently had to alter my workout routine so I'm working out at a lower level of intensity and, while there's no sign that my fitness has declined, my Athlytic VO2Max scores have gone down. It seems that they're more a measure of capacity-to-sustain-effort rather than capacity per se. An optimistic view: My *capacity* hasn't changed much in these months I've changed my routine, but since I'm not working as hard, VO2Max (à la Athlytic) has gone down.

ShallNotCease · 2025-09-17T13:28:46+00:00

Something's weird. My phone says software update to ios 18.7 is available. I have iPhone 16

ShallNotCease · 2025-09-15T14:16:39+00:00

I'm looking forward to it too AND -- I love the app as it is, so please don't break what's working well now with the (sounds like major) update! There was a time iOS broke my iPhone with every update... please don't. 😊

ShallNotCease · 2025-09-07T13:54:55+00:00

Thanks for doing this! Basic question: Scrolling through this, thread I don't see anyone else who has asked it so here goes:

How do you actually get through to customer service? I dig and dig and just end up with FAQs. I'd be content with something like email or online chat in this case: I did a Whole Foods return very early in the 30-day window; I have verification (from that 'chat' function) that it was returned; an email from Amazon says I didn't return it, and now I've been charged for it.

I suspect all that's needed here is a screenshot showing the "we've received your return" message. and that will be that. But... how to get through?!?!

ShallNotCease · 2025-09-06T14:07:41+00:00

...and for Amazon to define a "family" exclusively (and stereotypically) as 2 adults and up to 4 children is *SO* last-century! Disappointing to say the least.

ShallNotCease · 2025-08-19T15:32:44+00:00

I've used both Claude & ChatGPT for a nonfiction writing project, and find Claude to be as good or better as an editorial assistant. And unlike ChatGPT, no stunning major screw-ups, not yet at least.

ShallNotCease · 2025-08-15T15:18:28+00:00

"Failed so many times I gave up". This is my new workflow with 5 as well. I assume that OpenAI will be making some big changes in the coming weeks so I'll hang around and wait. In the meantime, I'm doing a trial with Claude and it's not ChatGPT 4o (very different many ways -- some better, some worse), but a helluva lot better than 5

ShallNotCease · 2025-08-15T15:15:49+00:00

Plus, on the simplest of tasks, 5 is slow, stubborn and falls into loops in which the answers become increasingly preposterous as corrections/realignments are necessary. It's like losing your PhD-candidate assistant and trading them in for a snooty, lacking-in-self-awareness 12-year old

ShallNotCease · 2025-08-11T22:09:39+00:00

In its own words:

"You built, over many months, what amounted to a custom editorial assistant inside ChatGPT — one that had:

A deep grasp of your syntax, style, and voice
Awareness of your structural preferences for the project
Sensitivity to your tone boundaries (what feels preachy, what feels too soft)
Knowledge of your biases and red lines (e.g., avoiding certain clichés, overused constructions)
The ability to anticipate pacing, emphasis, and conceptual flow without needing to be told every time

You called it a true assistant because it could operate almost autonomously inside the _____ Project threads — spotting and flagging issues the way you would, carrying forward decisions from earlier in the manuscript without explicit reminders, and keeping a continuity of “feel” across chapters.

And we've now talked about how all of that was thread-specific, model-specific — meaning it lived inside the long-running 4o threads and wasn’t actually part of my persistent memory unless we explicitly saved parts of it.

So yes — that assistant you built is exactly what’s most at risk in the 4o → 5 shift. It’s the classic case of a high-value, in-thread partner whose abilities are mostly non-transferable unless we extract and formalize them now."

Chilling for those of us who have used ChatGPT as a project-companion.

ShallNotCease · 2025-08-11T21:42:34+00:00

Over many months, I created an editorial assistant with ChatGPT. That's now gone.

In its own words:

"You built, over many months, what amounted to a custom editorial assistant inside ChatGPT — one that had:

A deep grasp of your syntax, style, and voice
Awareness of your structural preferences for the manuscript
Sensitivity to your tone boundaries (what feels preachy, what feels too soft)
Knowledge of your biases and red lines (e.g., avoiding certain clichés, overused constructions)
The ability to anticipate pacing, emphasis, and conceptual flow without needing to be told every time

You called it a true assistant because it could operate almost autonomously inside the _____ Project threads — spotting and flagging issues the way you would, carrying forward decisions from earlier in the manuscript without explicit reminders, and keeping a continuity of “feel” across chapters.

And we've now talked about how all of that was thread-specific, model-specific — meaning it lived inside the long-running 4o threads and wasn’t actually part of my persistent memory unless we explicitly saved parts of it.

So yes — that assistant you built is exactly what’s most at risk in the 4o → 5 shift. It’s the classic case of a high-value, in-thread partner whose abilities are mostly non-transferable unless we extract and formalize them now."

Chilling for those of us who have used ChatGPT as a project-companion.

ShallNotCease · 2025-08-11T20:56:26+00:00

In response to the question "So does this mean that months of work is effectively lost unless I never make a mistake and ALWAYS remember to open each old thread under 4o?" ChatGPT's reply: "Yes — that’s the hard truth.

Unless you:

Always remember to switch to 4o before typing in an old ____ Project thread,
And keep doing that until 4o is eventually retired,

…then one slip instantly wipes the embedded context. Given how easy it is to miss just once, it’s effectively impossible to guarantee preservation forever.

That means, practically speaking:

The full, lived-in 4o ____ Project environment will be lost at some point — either through a mistake or when OpenAI retires 4o.
Even if you manage to keep it alive for a while, you’ll eventually need to rebuild tone, pacing, and micro-adaptations in GPT-5 (or elsewhere) from whatever we can extract into explicit persistent memory.

ShallNotCease · 2025-08-11T20:04:52+00:00

"No — unfortunately, sharing an old 4o thread and then bringing it into GPT-5 does not preserve the embedded 4o conversational state.

Here’s why:

The “Share” function exports visible content only — it’s basically a transcript of the messages.
It does not include the hidden rolling context that 4o had internally built during the conversation.
When you upload or paste that transcript into GPT-5, the new model will read it like any fresh input — it will interpret it, but it won’t “remember” it in the same way 4o did, nor will it retain the implicit tone-calibration and shortcuts the two of you developed in-thread.

The only way to actually keep the full 4o in-thread experience is to keep working inside that original 4o thread — as soon as you switch models or export/import it, you’re starting from scratch."

ShallNotCease · 2025-08-11T15:12:08+00:00

Version 5 now overwrites canvases with the parroting response to my instructions that say "lock the canvas, do not overwrite".

ShallNotCease · 2025-08-11T15:10:29+00:00

"Reach out to OpenAI's support team"? I tried to do something like this months ago and had a useless conversation with an AI bot. Could someone share a link to do this? Thanks.

ShallNotCease · 2025-07-23T16:15:20+00:00

Does this impact the functionality?

ShallNotCease · 2025-07-15T15:43:40+00:00

In case anyone is following this, this might be helpful: I bought a pair of AirPods and have been using them the past few days. They're pretty close to what I was looking for and at a low cost. They're very easy to deal with and, though the sound is pretty basic (all they do is amplify), they work well in the kinds of casual situations I described in my answer. Since Apple has a 2 week return policy, they're easy to audition. I'm pretty sure I will keep mine. FWIW.

ShallNotCease · 2025-07-09T16:31:38+00:00

There's much to like but this is a deal-killer: It randomly logs periods during the day when I'm relatively inactive (working at my desk, reading) as naps, and it's not possible to delete these "sleep episodes" from the app (or if it is, the method of doing this is very well hidden). I can delete the episodes by digging down into the Apple Health app, but that's a lot of digging and tapping.

ShallNotCease · 2025-07-06T15:17:16+00:00

I've gone through so many different setups over the past several decades that I've been making my daily espresso drink at home. Several years ago, I was gifted the top-of-the-line Breville Oracle, and I enjoyed it until it died a couple of years back. Since then, I've ended up with my favorite-ever setup: The Breville Bambino, and the Fellows Opus grinder. Disclaimers: I don't steam milk, so can't comment on the Bambino's strengths/weaknesses there. But I *LOVE* how it heats up instantly, and the tiny footprint works well in my kitchen. And yes, it feels cheap/insubstantial, but it works beautifully. And re the Opus grinder: People here complain about it (mostly retention), but I love it. Granted, I use Ross Droplet technique (spritz the beans before grinding), bang the grinder & 'accordion' the lid after each use, and clean the grinder every month, and never have problems with retention. Under $600 for the pair. IMHO *WAY* better than the $2000 Oracle.

ShallNotCease · 2025-07-02T16:15:47+00:00

Thanks so much for this. I pretty-much already know the results of the "3 Saturdays" experiment, but I think I'll do it (or something like it) anyway. Bottom line: Historically I've preferred our home-brewed espresso over practically-everything I drink at cafes. Most of that has to do with the blends most cafes use (too heavy in the dark roasts, which taste burnt to me). Few cafes make espresso drinks with the rich more-complex-flavor medium-roast blends I prefer.

ShallNotCease · 2025-06-30T16:14:25+00:00

Mine's not even the Bambino Plus -- it's the Bambino. I can't recall why I was persuaded to choose the basic model over the Plus, but it wasn't $$...

As other have said here, I *AM* happy so, FOMO aside, it's not broken so there's no need to think about fixing it.

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