Johnny McDonald
The idea of tracking water intake is super important, but I think it could be reworked to be more efficient, nudge you to drink, and have overall more detailed tracking! I will be using the app WaterMinder as a reference for a lot of these changes as they have it done pretty well, and it would be dope to see their level of detail and ease integrated into bevel.
  • Move hydration out of Journal and integrate it with the food logging section of the app! To me it makes much more sense because it’s more convenient to log main consumables through the + tab at the bottom of the screen. Hydration is just as common as food intake for everyone and makes sense to be easily accessible along side food.
  • Push notifications for drinking water! This would only happen if you are behind where you should be at any given period throughout the day, and it would help you pace your water drinking instead of cramming it all at the end of the day before you sleep!
  • Add a Variable Hydration option! Depending on your Strain and physical output during any given day, the amount you should be hydrating changes pretty drastically. It would be cool if there was an option where the water goal for the day variably increases to match the actual amount of water you should be consuming based on your activity!
  • Hydration should be more than just water! It has the potential to be all sorts of drinks. You would be able to log energy drinks, coffee, tea, alcohol, etc. all within the hydration section. These things contribute to your hydration too, and it would be nice to be able to see how much of each thing makes up your daily hydration. Logging things like coffee would also sync up with your caffeine in the journal, same for alcohol. It’s just more convenient because the initial logging of it all is in one place.
  • Hydration Complication for Apple Watch is a must. A progress bar/progress dial with either a percentage or number of oz consumed would be huge for keeping track throughout the day while simply looking at my wrist instead of opening my phone and going to the app.
  • Add the ability to log water on the Apple Watch directly! When you click on the complication on the watch face, it should take you to a screen where you can add water right to your log. It would be easier to convince some people to log it if done this way.
  • Allow us to define the end of a day for logging! I along with many other people have very irregular sleep schedules due to irregular work, so water logging for a day abruptly concluding at midnight doesn’t work for us. Being able to set a new default (I.E. 3:00 am, 6:30 am, etc.) would make logging it much more concise and accurate. You could even give us the option to make our end of the day whenever we fall asleep. The app knows when we go to bed, so it could conclude that we are then done logging out water for the previous day at that point.
I know this is a massive wall of text, and a ton of work, but all of these things would make logging hydration super efficient. I appreciate the time, and can’t wait to see the future of this app, I’m a really big fan of the concept and am excited to track my life with it! Thanks for your consideration.