Logbook

The Logbook widget in Sequence is a powerful tool for tracking your climbing sessions, whether you’re working on routes or boulders, indoors or outdoors. This guide will help you get the most out of it.

Getting Started

If you’re working with a training plan then some of your workouts will already have a logbook widget. If this is the case skip to the next step, otherwise you can add a logbook widget to any workout following these steps.

Navigate to your workout

Click “Add Widget”

Select “Logbook” from the available widgets. Choose your logbook type: Route, Boulder, Route (Indoor), or Boulder (Indoor)

We generally encourage you to keep your workouts focused and only include one logbook for each workout. However, it can be benefitial if you have something like a general “Weekend Climbing” workout that you want to be outdoors, but could be indoors if the weather is bad. In this case you could add both the “Route” and “Rotue (Indoor)” workouts.

Setting Up Your Logbook

Access settings via Workouts → Widgets → Logbook
Grade Scale: Set your preferred grading system (YDS, French, Australian, Hueco, Font)
Entry Flags: Customise available flags like “Repeat”, “Top rope”, “Exclude from stats”

Logging Climbs

You can add logbook entries on a scheduled workout. Enter notes specific to each climb on the logbook entry and use the Training Notes on the workout for general notes on the session; how you went, where you were, who you were with, etc.

Entries are saved immediately, but make sure you “Complete” the workout as normal after entering all your data so you can keep track of many sessions you’ve done.

Basic Entry Fields

Name

The name of the route or boulder
Features autocomplete based on your climbing history
This is optional. It’s obviously not applicable for indoor routes (but give it a name if it’s an indoor project you’re working on!), and there are outdoor crags and boulders where not everything has a name. In this case you can use your own descriptor or keep it blank.

Grade

Select from your configured grade scale
Grade scale can be changed in widget settings
- If you’re going on a trip overseas you can set it to the local scale for the duration of your trip and change it back when you return.
- Your stats will be converted to the currently selected grade scale

Location

Where you climbed (crag, gym, area)
Autocomplete suggests locations from your history
Don’t feel like you need to be too detailed here, you can keep it broad, e.g. Yosemite, Margalef, Grampians. At some point we may have a more involved classification system.
For indoor logbooks you can use board type, set and location, e.g. Moonboard 2024 Set, Gym X Spray Wall

Ascent Styles

The logbook tracks different types of ascents:

Onsight: Climbed successfully on first attempt with no prior knowledge
Flash: Climbed successfully on first attempt with beta
Redpoint/Sent: Climbed successfully after previous attempts
- Routes show “Redpoint”
- Boulders show “Sent”
Attempt: Tried to complete the climb but unsuccessful
Work: Practiced moves without intent to complete
Repeat: Previously completed climb

Attempt: has the explicit intention to send the route Work: the focus is just on working moves on the route

This allows you to track the effort required to accomplish these different things.

For example, an unsuccessful onsight/flash would be classed as an “Attempt” and then you might have a few “Work” sessions to refine the beta before trying again for the redpoint, which would be a “Redpoint” if successful and an “Attempt” if not.

In addition, you can classify the ascent with flags, such as “Repeat” or “Top rope”. For more info on flags go to Workouts → Widgets.

Attempts Field

Number of attempts taken
Leave empty = 1 attempt

For example, if the style is Redpoint and Attempts is 3, that means it took 3 attempts to redpoint. You can also log each attempt seperately if you want to record how each one went in more detail.

Notes

Add beta, conditions, or any other details

If this is for a project, consider creating a project goal so you can record the beta in a centralised place. You can do this when adding an additional entry for the route/boulder.

An entry must have a name in order to create a project for it.

Viewing Your Data

Scheduled Workouts

See all logbook entries for that session
Drag to reorder

Full Logbook View

Access in one of the following ways:
- Clicking the Full Logbook icon when in a scheduled workout
- Via Metrics → Logbooks → Your Logbook
View grade pyramids and other metrics
- Show/hide repeats and/or attempts via the graph controls
- View as a mirrored pyramid style or as a bar chat style
You can edit any past entry directly by clicking on the Edit button

Tips & Best Practices

Logging Strategies

Project Sessions

Be sure to put thought into deciding between an ascent being an “Attempt” or a “Work” — tracking your intention is important when reflecting on and assessing your performance.

use “Attempt” if going for the send
use “Work” for practising moves, rehearsing sections, and working on linkage

Information Overload

With indoor sessions - in particular bouldering - there’s no need to track every… single… shot… especially with warmups. It should not feel like a chore. For limit sessions, focus on logging your high end attempts. For volume sessions, focus on logging your reps at the target intensity.

Outdoor is a different story. Track your warmups. It’s okay to have a sit on a regular warmup when at the crag. Log it as an “Attempt” and a “Repeat” and it won’t affect your stats for how long it takes you to send a route at a particular grade, but will help you assess your overall volume. When combined with your recorded motivation, performance and feeling measurements, you’ll also be able to determine what is your most effective warmup process over time.

Data Organisation

Use consistent location names for better filtering

Use flags to maintain clean statistics. Examples of things you might want to do:

track repeats
track how much top roping you are doing if you want to work towards leading more pitches

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