A month on from my dive log post, lots has changed since, and I could do with a hand testing imports
Hi everyone, I posted here about a month ago. I'd built my own dive log because I couldn't find one I got on with, and I came to ask what you all thought and how I could make it better. The response was lovely: lots of thoughtful feedback and some of you are using it already! Thank you for that, a lot of it has fed into where it's got to since.
For those who didn't see the previous post, it's called Bloo, an offline-first logbook for iPhone, free to use (log as many dives as you like, and your own data's never stuck behind a paywall).
The feature I'm working on at the moment is import — so that when you move across from another app, your whole dive history comes with you rather than starting from a blank logbook. And that's where I could do with your help again.
To get import properly working I need to test against real export files rather than ones I've found myself, because every tool's export has its own quirks and the only way to catch them is the real thing. I'm after UDDF exports from any of these:
- Shearwater Cloud (I've got a few, but odd or edge-case ones especially welcome)
- MacDive
- Diving Log (divinglog.de)
I only need a handful from each, so I might not take everyone up on it, but I'll reply to everyone regardless.
As a thank you: I'll give anyone who sends a file I can actually test with Bloo Pro free for a year. And the first five usable files get Pro for life — a little reward for being quick off the mark. Comment to get a spot and I'll send you the two-minute steps for exporting from your tool if you don't already know how.
On privacy, I'd rather you kept hold of your own data, so the simplest thing is to strip anything personal (names, any saved locations) before you send it, and I'm happy to talk you through how. If you'd rather just send it as-is, that's fine too — I'll anonymise it myself, and I delete the original once I've built the test fixture from it. The files are only ever used privately for testing, never published anywhere.
(If you're on Suunto or Garmin, those export differently and I'm dealing with them separately a bit further down the line — do leave a comment anyway and I'll come and find you when I get round to them.) 🤿
Thanks!
