How do I manually move todays points to weekly points?
Click on the yellow today icon on the main screen, find the points you want to move and select it by long-holding on it. Then select Move to Weekly.

How do I enter my weight loss and how often?
Go to the diary icon, find the week and click it. Hit 'Edit Weightloss' and you will be given a choice to enter your current weight or weight loss directly. Once you submit that, the application will calculate your weight loss since last weigh in and let you save it. You can go into the app any time you like and enter your current weight if you so desire. Its not limited to your weigh -in day only. For fun, look at the graph for weekly weight loss and see your weight loss progress visually!

How do I manually change my daily 'target' points?
Go into settings and find it in the list. Its title is Daily Target.

What is the maintenance box for on the Daily Target Points calculator in settings?
Users might put in their age, height, weight etc and get a value back for their target and want to use a different value for their daily points. Or perhaps the user is in maintenance mode. Whatever the reason, the maintenance entry allows a value of -9 through +9. Adding or subtracting this number might allow the user to hit that perfect level which allows them to maintain.

What is the recycling icon for?
The recycled points provides a list of points that you added at one time or another. This self-directed database becomes VERY important and powerful if used correctly. Not only is this database available to you to quickly add points, its also very specific to you since you created it. Any points you add via the scanner, food lookup, restaurant lookup etc are added to recycled points automatically. You can also search these points by typing in the search box. You will see the items filtered by search term below.

Why does my graph have no line?
You don't have any weight loss entries to plot. After each weigh-in day, make sure you update your weight loss in the diary for that week.

Why do I have to enter my current weight when the application was installed?
Entering your current weight is very important. This weight is used as the starting point for your progress when calculating your weight loss, activity points and for graphing. Its also used with the Target Points Alert functionality. (see below)

What is the Target Points Alert Feature?
The target points alert feature is something to really help you as you lose weight. Initially, based on your weight, you were given an allotment of daily or 'target' points per day. As you lose weight, thes amount of these points will lower. To help you, every time you enter your weight, the application calculates your weekly weight loss. When you 'Save' that weight loss, the alert feature checks to see if your target points are in line with your current weight. If they aren't you are given a chance to update them.

Can I use the metric system ie. Kilograms and Centimeteres?
Yes. Go into the settings menu and under Optional Settings. There are selections for kilograms and centimeters there. Make sure you enter your height/weight in the appropriate units throughout the application.

What should I do if my weigh-in day changes?
You can change your weigh-in day in the settings for the application.

How do I reset / start all over?
Go into the settings and look for the very last entry in the list under Miscellaneous Settings. Click and follow directions to reset all data. This will NOT delete your recycled items.

Holy moly, the food database has alot of items!
Yes, the database is a living database meaning that it is growing each and every day. Finding your item's point values is important and therefore so are the terms that you search with. Carefully pick your choice of search string so that you find what you are looking for. For instance, don't put in milk, instead put in fat free skim milk. The more specific you are, the more specific the results will be. If you put in 'fat free' this will find any food with 'fat' and 'free' in the description, first in the order you specified, and then in any order.

Can I use the old points system in this app?
Yes you can. Go to settings, choose daily target and choose the old system.

Why doesn't the barcode scanner find my product? Why doesn't the food calculator have my product? Why isn't my restaurant in the restaurant finder?
Like anything else, this application can't have every single item in its database. Use these lookups as a convenience, but use the regular calculator / manual entry and recycled points if the application doesn't have your item in its databases.

What are Categories and how do I use them?
Go into the settings and enable the setting for Categories. After this, whenever you add points, you will have to select a category for the points from a list containing Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks. When you vie your points for a day, they will be placed in the category you chose and will be very organized.

Also, by choosing categories, you also get access to a new graph that shows your percentage category usage. You can then see what percentage of your points you are using on any one category.

Note that when you first enable categories, any points previously entered into the application will have the designation 'Uncategorized'. (You may edit them all if you wish)

How does the meal builder work?
The meal builder is a feature which allows you to combine points you commonly use into a group to make data entry that much easier. You create a meal by giving it a recognizable name and then start adding items to it. You can add items from your recycled points, from the scanner, from the food lookup and from the restaurant lookup. The meal builder will keep a list of all your meals for you to be able to edit and use.

To add points from a meal, click the meal name and you will see its total points value and what makes up the meal. Long press an item to not include it in this usage of the meal. Don't worry, it won't be erased from the meal permanently, just for this use. This comes in handy for meals which you normally use but in this instance you want to drop one item because you didn't eat it.

Use the meal builder to add any number of items to form your own easy to use groups and even for simple recipes.

I am changing handsets tomorrow but really need my VERY precious points plus diary data. Is there a way to backup and restore the data?
Yes there is! Here is how:

1) Load up your points plus diary application on your old handset.

2) Make sure your SD card is in your phone and is mounted

3) Go to the bottom of the settings and choose 'Backup to SD card'.

4) If all goes well, your database should quickly backup to your sd card. NOTE, this is NOT a way to move the application to your SD card to save space - this is mainly a handset switch function.

5) Put the old SD card (with the backup on it) in your new handset (or find the file pointsplusdata_backup on your current SD card and move it to the one for your new phone.

6) Install points plus diary on your new phone and follow the necessary setup steps the application requires.

7) When you get to the main screen, go into settings and at the bottom click on Restore from SD Card.

8) If all goes well, the database should be restored to the application and you should be good to go.

9) IMPORTANT!- All of the weight loss calculation data from your backup is based on your INITIAL starting weight. Make sure you set the starting weight (in settings) to what it was in the old device. If you don't, the calculations will not make sense at all.

If you have issues following this procedure where the backup or restore steps fail, ensure that your card is mounted properly. Also make sure if you had to copy the file manually to a new card that you copy the file directly to the SD card and not in any folders. The file must also not be renamed.