Track categories. Do more with the miles you track.
Track category information can be used for tax deduction or reimbursement purposes.
If you don’t need to assign any categories to your tracks, don’t worry — categories are hidden by default and should not complicate your work with the app until you need them.
If you believe categories may help, continue reading.
Assigning and viewing categories
You can assign a category when you create a track or later when you review it.
The following tracking categories are available:
Business, Personal, Medical, Charity, Other.
MENU > “NEW TRACK” button now shows the default category option (#1) for your new tracks:
If needed, use the settings button (#2) in the “NEW TRACK” menu section to open the tracking settings screen:
Tap on this settings row to pick a default for the new tracks:
Options:
Ask when track starts - Just before track recording starts, the app will ask you to pick a category for the track.
Not assigned - Is the current default and doesn’t assign any category to tracks as they are created.
Business, Personal, etc - A specific category to assign to the track on its creation. Useful if most of your driving happens within a single category.
A category can be assigned to the track at any point.
To assign a category, do MENU > TRACKS and:
A. Either swipe from right to left on the track row:
And pick the category by tapping on one of the buttons here (if the desired category is not in the short list, tap on “More” to see all categories).
B. Or if you have already opened the track preview by tapping on the track row, use the category assignment button:
“-” is used to denote a category that is not assigned yet. Where a concise view of a category is needed, only its first letter is used, as in the tracks list:
B stands for Business, P for Personal, in the tracks list.
This is it for how you assign categories to tracks. Let’s move to filtering and exporting categorized lists!
Filtering tracks with certain categories or without category assigned.
In the tracks list, tap on the bottom filter button:
To open a filter screen:
Version 3.2 adds a “Year” option to the filter, so you can select tracks for the whole year (e.g. for an annual tax deduction report). But most importantly, it adds a category filter section that allows you to show only tracks with certain categories or with no category assigned.
Date-based and category filters are combined, so you can select tracks for a certain month/year or year, plus only with certain categories assigned.
CSV/Excel report with categories.
Having the right filter applied (e.g. Year 2021, Categories: Business + Medical + Charity), tap on an Action button in the tracks list:
Pick “Export to Preview” - this is the most universal option where you can preview the file and pick further actions on it - to share or to open in “Numbers” or “Excel” app on your device.
The category column is the rightmost in the report (#1):
Use the mentioned action button (#2) to share or open this report in more specialized apps like “Numbers” or “Excel”.
Also, version 3.2 adds a “trip name” column, so you can distinguish by trip/car — whatever your trip/folder represents for tracks:
