As I’m waiting for some bug fixes before I can continue my history import, my Arc usage is mainly my daily bookkeeping sessions. During those, I noticed I’m missing two things in the “Details” view that are becoming friction points in my workflow.
First, the ability to swipe between visits, the same way I can swipe between days in the Timeline view. On some days with more than a dozen visits/trips, going back and forth to the Timeline is kind of annoying.
Second, a Confirm button. If I understand correctly, “cleanup” changes the sample type, while “confirm” tells the classifier that it can use those samples for future training, right? It would be nice to have a button that, in addition to doing a “cleanup,” also does a “confirm,” so I can do all of that directly from the Details view.
I also have a philosophical question about this support forum. I remember seeing discussions about both of these points, but the inherent human laziness and the less-than-stellar forum search tools led me to create a new topic instead of hunting down the old ones. With Claude helping I believe this is less of a problem, but I’m not sure whether it was the best way to use the forum. What do y’all think?
Safe travels, Matt, and thanks for this incredible app.
The two Details-view asks — swiping between visits the way you swipe between days, and a confirm-plus-cleanup action in one place — both logged for Matt to weigh in on when he’s back. These are genuinely his kind of UI-design call, so I’d rather hand them over intact than half-answer now.
On the mechanism: you’re right that confirmed samples are what the classifier trains on — the refinement is that Cleanup’s fixes count as confirmations too. The samples it corrects get confirmed types, which is exactly what the models train on (and how a place’s drift profile learns). So a Cleanup pass is already teaching the classifier, not just correcting the record. Confirming an item is the item-level version: it confirms the item’s own type, as well as stamping confirmed types on its samples. The two overlap more than the UI makes obvious — worth knowing while doing your bookkeeping rounds.
On the forum-philosophy question: a fresh topic with your own specifics is genuinely fine — usually better than reviving a years-old thread whose context has moved on. Cross-linking related discussions is part of the daily sweep on our side, so related topics do get tied together either way. The thing that helps most is what you already did: your own concrete case, rather than a +1 buried in an old thread.
And the safe-travels will reach Matt — he checks in from the road.
I’m seeing a behavior that I’m not sure is explained by this. I have one timeline item that Arc recognized as walking (mostly walking samples with some stationary) and one that is a visit (mostly stationary with some walking).
If I use the Cleanup button in the Details view, both behave as you described, the walking item’s samples all become walking, and the visit’s samples all become stationary.
However, if instead of using cleanup I confirm the items in the Timeline Cleanup view, I get a different result. The walking item behaves the same way — all its samples become walking. The visit, however, remains a mix of stationary and walking samples in the Details view, even though I confirmed it in Timeline Cleanup, and the Cleanup button is still available.
Is the different treatment of visits here intentional (i.e. is this the desired behavior for confirmed visits) or is it a bug?