The end-of-run review already keeps what you say about the dogs when you get back: the lemon, the orange, the pairs, a note per dog (the post from two days ago explains what each fruit means). Two gaps were left: a race had none of it, and the run note could only be written in the replay, later, somewhere warm. And when you get back, your hands are cold.
What changes
- A race's review has its Remarks. The lemon, the orange, the race's pairs (read from the recorded line), a note per dog: the same screen as after a run. The race's page, on the phone, has its "Remarks" card, and "Correct" reopens the same screen.
- A race counts like a run. Its fruits go into the season ranking and into the three-lemons-in-fourteen-days signal. On the dog's page, a race's history line leads to the race.
- The run note in the review. A last card, below Remarks: "Run note" (or "Race note"), three lines, optional. It shows what you had already written in the replay: it is the same field, with two doors. It is saved on "Finish" as well as on "Later", as soon as you have touched it; a review closed without touching it rewrites nothing.
- "Dictate". Under every note field of the review (the run or race note, a dog's note, a fruit's "Why?", a pair's note), a wide button, a microphone and a word. It calls your phone's dictation, in the app's language. The text is added at the end of the field and shows while you speak; a second tap stops. The phone asks for microphone access on the first tap, not before.
- If dictation doesn't work (access refused, phone without a dictation engine), a line says so: "Dictation unavailable — the keyboard mic is still there". The field can still be typed in.
What others see, and what never leaves the kennel
A run's or a race's note is read within your kennel, on the run's page, as before. A race's remarks are read like a run's: on the race's page on the phone, on the dogs' pages and in the printed record. Nothing goes to the club, the public leaderboard, a track's public page or a share card. Writing and correcting the note and the remarks stays with the owner and handlers.
MushMate does not record your voice and sends it nowhere. The button hands over to the phone's dictation engine, the one the keyboard mic already uses, on the device when the language is installed there. MushMate only receives the text that lands in the field.
What it does not do
- The website does not dictate and does not enter remarks. The browser has its own dictation; remarks are entered on the phone, when you get back. A race's page on the website does not show remarks: they are read on the dog's page and in the printed record.
- No per-stage note in a race's review. A stage's note is entered where it already was.
- Dictation corrects nothing for you. What the phone understood lands in the field as is; read it before "Finish".
Three choices made against the obvious
A big button rather than the keyboard mic. The keyboard already dictates, with no extra permission. But its mic key is too small for a gloved finger, and everything MushMate has you touch on the trail is sized for gloves. The button calls the same engine; it costs one permission on the first tap.
One note, two doors. The review could have had its own note, next to the replay's. Two fields would have ended up saying two different things about the same run. The review and the replay write the same note; the last write wins, and each starts from what is already written.
A race has the same remarks as a run, not separate ones. It could have been treated as a special case. But a dog that ran badly in a race ran badly: its lemon counts in the same season, in the same signal, on the same page.