This release adds a new design for other people’s profiles and a CSV export of all of your data.
You’ll find the export feature in Settings. We’ll email you a CSV file that opens in Excel or Google Docs.
We have other big news going on outside of our app store submissions. Right now we’re in the middle of sending out invitations to a web version of Lift. Keep your eye out, we’re sending them out first-come, first serve over the next few weeks.
The iPhone app is definitely our jewel and is the best way to use Lift. But we’re huge believers in Lift’s social features to provide accountability, inspiration, and information. In order to do that we need a universal option.
Here’s a perfect story of why.
We’ve been using Lift as a platform for investigating habit based diets. The trend in new diets is that calorie counting is dead, replaced by life long habit building.
We did one research project with Tim Ferriss and his Four Hour Body last fall. It was a huge success from a research and support perspective, with one caveat: 2/3 of people who heard about it were complaining that they couldn’t join because they didn’t have an iPhone.
Well, we’re doing a second habit based eating challenge again with Darya Rose and her new book, Foodist. This time, everyone who joins the challenge gets immediate access to the web version. It’s been a much stronger community experience.
(BTW, if you want to lose weight, you should check out our blog,blog.lift.do, the Darya group is still running. You’ll get expert advice and support directly from the author.)
Lastly, grand stories aside, the web version is really for my mom, a teacher with a school-issued iPad, who is more likely to be found on her computer. I gotta get props from her when I eat right and exercise.
Happy two days after Mother’s Day. Be kind to the mothers in your life. They deserve our props.
