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Supplements

Track what you take and what it adds.

The Supplements section on the Fuel tab is a list of what you take, with a one-tap dose. It keeps a record and lets a dose count toward your macros where it should. Forma does not advise what to take or how much.

When to use it

  • You take something most days, such as creatine or whey, and want a record of it.
  • You want a protein shake to count toward your daily protein target.
  • You want a nudge on the days you forget a usual supplement.

Step by step

  1. Open Fuel and scroll to Supplements.
  2. Tap Add a supplement.
  3. Fill it in whichever way suits you: tap Scan the barcode to read a packet, tap a name under Common supplements, or tap Type it in.
  4. Where photo reading is set up and allowed on your phone, Photograph the label reads the Supplement Facts panel. You check what it read before anything is saved.
  5. On the form, check the Name, pick a Kind (Protein, Creatine, Caffeine, Vitamin or Other) and, if you like, type a Usual dose: the field suggests "5 g or 2 capsules".
  6. Leave the Macros per dose (optional) fields blank unless the supplement has some. If what you type is not a number, the form says "Use numbers only, for example 24 or 1.5." A protein supplement with nothing entered is treated as unknown, never guessed as zero.
  7. Tap Add and log the first dose.

From then on, tapping the supplement's name on Fuel logs a dose. The green number on it counts today's doses.

What each kind does

The form describes each Kind in one line:

  • Protein: counts toward your daily protein target.
  • Creatine and Vitamin: no macros.
  • Caffeine: timed against your sleep.
  • Other: no note, no special behaviour.

More options per supplement

Press and hold a supplement's name for its menu:

  • Log a dose. When the supplement has a usual dose, the item names your usual dose instead.
  • Out of stock and Restocked. Marking one out of stock shows a short sentence about your record of taking it, and its row is dimmed until it is back. Logging a dose while it is out of stock marks it back in stock.
  • Stopped, and Take it again to restart a stopped one.
  • Undo last dose.
  • Remove (keeps history). The supplement leaves the list but its past doses stay.

If you scan or photograph a supplement you already have, Forma does not add a second one. It offers to log a dose of the one you own, or, if the old one was removed, to add it again.

A reminder when you forget

If you want a nudge when you have not logged a usual supplement:

  1. Open Settings, then Reminders & notifications.
  2. Open Reminders and turn on Supplements.

It only reminds you when your usual ones are missing for the day. On a day you logged them, it says nothing.

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