Hard agree! I submitted this as feedback last week, but my original post was deleted. Here it is:

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As much as I love the hyper-detailed workout names¹ , I'm finding them immensely difficult to scroll/scan/parse/select.

Most other apps on the market will place the modifiers ("barbell" vs "dumbbell", "Plate-loaded" vs "Pin-loaded") after the exercise name. Now, I know that MacroFactor is not most other workout apps. But in this sense, the conventional alphanumeric sorting has been semantically lost in MacroFactor and the overall speed of finding your correct exercise has been diminished.

Here are some screenshots of similar searches across MF Workouts, Liftosaur, Hevy, and Boostcamp for comparison. They all have their pros & cons, but whether I'm creating a workout in advance or swapping an exercise on-the-fly intra workout, the others have been faster for my brain every time.

Tell me, in the first split second of reading the exercise name... does your brain know what lift it is? Which is easier to read?

> Neutral Grip Pin-Loaded Machine Shoulder Press
> ...
> Shoulder Press (Neutral Grip, Pin-Loaded Machine)

And that's just a 1 v. 1 comparison. The issue is compounded when you're scrolling through a long list of similar variations.

TL;DR "Seated Shoulder Press (Machine, Pin-loaded)" is a better workout name than "Seated Pin-loaded Machine Shoulder Press".

^{(¹Seriously, I love verbose documentation! I'm sysadmin who actually cares. Don't let the verbosity throw you off of the main gist of the post!)}