# Import your workout spreadsheet and keep every column

Years of tracking should not be lost when you switch tools. Export your sheet as CSV with a Date column and import it: recognised columns such as steps, sleep, squats, protein, weight and stool type map to the library, every other column becomes its own metric with its kind and target inferred from your data, and columns your sheet computes, such as scores and averages, are skipped. Importing the same days again updates them.

## How it works

1. **Export your sheet as CSV.** From Google Sheets, Excel or Numbers. Keep a Date column.
2. **Import it.** During onboarding or any time from Data in.
3. **Read the summary.** Matched columns, new metrics, and skipped columns with the reason.
4. **Carry on.** Your history powers the brief, trends and week plan from day one.

## Who uses it

- Years of spreadsheet logs: "Three years of my sheet came across, including the odd columns I invented."
- Coach handover: "My coach's template imported cleanly and each column became a metric."
- Trying the app: "I imported, looked around, and kept the sheet as a backup."

## Header-driven

Nothing is hard-coded to one sheet. Day-first and month-first dates are detected.

## Safe to repeat

The same metric on the same day is updated, never doubled.

## Start from a template

No sheet yet? Download the free template and start there.

## Questions

### Which columns are recognised?

Common names for steps, distance, squats, push-ups, pull-ups, plank, strength split days, runs, swims, stretching, meditation, sleep, recovery, nutrition on plan, protein, water, weight, waist, fibre, caffeine, bowel movements and stool type.

### What happens to columns it does not recognise?

They become new metrics. A column of TRUE/FALSE becomes a check metric; numbers become a number metric with a target set from your typical value.

### What date formats work?

YYYY-MM-DD, and day-first or month-first dates such as 25/09/2026 or 09/25/2026; the order is detected from your data.

### Does importing overwrite what I logged in the app?

Only for the same metric on the same day, where the imported value replaces it.

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