Do you usually skip the gym? Cortana can now help you stop doing it

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The Cortana team we are used to release news regularlyand discreetly (i.e. without telling anyone). It&39;s not uncommon for many users to come across new assistant features that just appear, such as concert notifications, or movie trailer recommendations that have been added. during February."

However, with the new feature Fitness Tracker that was added a few weeks ago, Microsoft wanted to do things differently, and go out and explain what it consists of and how we can use it.According to what they tell us, the objective of Fitness Tracker is to keep track of the times we go to the gym, to remind us when it is our turn to go, and to suggest rescheduling the routines that we jumped.

This is achieved by geolocation To begin with, we must save the gym or place where we are going to exercise as favorite place on the map, and assign it a descriptive name (if we use Cortana in English, it will have to be something like Gym , or My swimming pool).

Once that is done, Cortana will ask us if we want her to record our visits to that place using Fitness Tracker. If we say yes, and after a while, Cortana will find out which days of the week we go most often, and start showing us morning reminders for such days.

Fitness Tracker will detect if we miss the gym on a day when we have to train, and it will suggest rescheduling "

In case we end up eating pizza instead of going to the gym, Cortana will worry, and will suggest reschedule our workout via a calendar event."

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Overall, this is seen as a pretty useful feature, especially for those of us who have/are having trouble trying to lead a more active life. However, there are important details that could be improved. For example, why not allow to manually enter training days? So we don&39;t have to wait several weeks before Cortana deciphers our routine. "

Another useful improvement would be to be able to enter running routes, and have Cortana detect when we've fully traveled them, rather than registering a visit to a specific place. This would be very valuable for those who prefer to exercise outdoors, rather than inside a gym.

What do you think of this new Cortana feature? Were you able to take advantage of it?

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