Start with the Apple Watch

The watch is for the entries that have to take one tap: a glass of water, the usual breakfast, a weight, a word about how you feel. It never asks you to sign in on a 40 mm screen — the phone does that part. The app is not in the App Store yet; the home page has the waiting list.

Before you start

An iPhone with the app installed and signed in, and the watch paired with that iPhone. Keep the phone nearby and the app open for the first launch on the watch.

Step by step

1. Install the app on the iPhone and sign in there.
2. Open Kalorika on the watch. It says to open Kalorika on the iPhone.
3. Open the app on the phone and leave it on screen for a moment. The phone hands the watch its own access — there is nothing to type on the watch.
4. The watch shows your day: the rings, and the time of the last update under them.
5. Scroll down to the actions: a glass of water, «Repeat the usual», «Say it», weight, how you feel, a workout.

One watch at a time belongs to an account. Pairing a second one takes the first one off, which is also how you take a watch you no longer use off the account.

What it logs

• A glass of water — one tap, straight into today.
• Repeat the usual — the meal you log most often at this time of day, with its numbers.
• Say it — dictate the food in words; the same sentence as in the chat.
• Weight — set with the crown and sent.
• How you feel — five short questions, one at a time, as many as you care to answer.
• A workout — walking, running, cycling. It is saved to Apple Health, and it reaches the diary the way everything else in Health does: through the iPhone. So Health has to be connected in the app, or a workout on the wrist stays on the wrist.

If something does not go through

• No connection to the phone: water and weight wait in a queue and say how many are waiting. They go on their own when the phone is back.
• «Open Kalorika on your iPhone» again, out of nowhere: that watch was taken off the account, by you or by another watch. Open the app on the phone once and the watch pairs again.
• The rings on the complication are up to half an hour old by design — watchOS decides how often they refresh, and a face that refreshes every minute would cost the battery.