1. Purpose
HeiaHeia.com is a simple and fun sports service for keeping track of your physical activities together with friends.
2. Logging your exercises
To log an exercise, click a sports icon of your choice in the "New entry" row. The default sports are the most popular ones in the service, but your personal favorite sports will populate the row once you've made some entries. We support over 250 activities already, you can request for new ones from the "All sports" pop-up.
We're working on a way to make new entries also in the future - i.e. create a training plan for yourself.
3. Making friends
To quickly connect to your friends, click the "Find friends" link on the top right corner. This will give you several options: 1) you can search for friends already in the service and click "add to friends" on their profiles 2) you can safely utilize your address books from Google, Yahoo, or Hotmail to check which ones of your friends are already in the service and add them as friends - or if none of your connections are in the service, you can pick which ones to invite 3) you can invite friends to the service "manually" via email.
You can easily add people to friends any time by clicking "add to friends" on their profiles.
Once you have made some friends, their new exercises will show on your feed in the home screen and you can browse their training logs through their profiles. You can cheer your friends' exercises by clicking the thumb icon next to the exercise. You can comment on the exercise by clicking the speech bubble icon. These cheers and comments will be stored in the friend's training log.
5. User levels
We give our users "levels" based on their activity in the service: rookie - bronze - silver - gold - ... Among the things that affect your level are the number of friends, sports activity, and the usage of different features of the service. Being on a higher level gives you benefits: for starters, new single-use cheering icons are released for you every week based on your level. More fun benefits to follow.
6. Home view
The home view, i.e. the feed, pulls together everything happening in the service: exercises by you and your friends, cheers and comments, people making new friends, things happening in groups you belong to, etc.
7. Training log
The training log is the place where we collect all your exercises. We currently have two views there: 1) a "summary view", which provides a visual way to browse your exercises - we're working on creating a couple of new views here, and 2) "full training log", which is a quick to browse presentation of your full training history logged in HeiaHeia.
We're working on ways to export reports & data from the service.
8. Groups
Groups are a place for getting together e.g. with a group of friends, members of a club, people taking part in an event, etc. Inside a group you can easily compare each others' trainings, have discussions, and follow "official updates" by the group owner - other features are also in the making.
9. Profile
Your profile is what others see of you.
10. Privacy settings
We currently offer two levels of privacy: your profile and training log can be seen either by all HeiaHeia users or just your friends. Your name and picture can be seen by all HeiaHeia users in any case.
11. Sharing in Facebook and Twitter
If you want to share your exercises in Facebook or Twitter, go to "Settings" and follow the links there.
12. Your account & signing in
You can sign into HeiaHeia using a "native account" (an account you created for HeiaHeia) or by utilizing your credentials to one of our supported login partners (currently Facebook, Google, and Twitter). Please note that you need to stick to one form of logging in. You can merge your native account e.g. with Facebook login, but after that you need to stick to Facebook. This is because of the terms of service for the different services: all the accounts don't "talk to each other".
13. Updates to the service
We're developing the service further all the time. New updates are currently released every week. All comments and wishes are very much welcome - we naturally want to create a service that is useful to you, the users!
This Quick Guide will be updated whenever we've created new updates or features worth mentioning.