IGNITE AI Quick Log FAB: Scan, Describe, Voice, Activity, Weight

The center Quick Log FAB is the product’s nervous system. It is where capture begins: camera modes for meals and labels, describe and voice-style inputs when photos are the wrong tool, activity for training, and weight for scale check-ins. Learning it once removes half of “where do I tap?” friction forever.

People who only ever use one path burn out when that path fails—dark restaurants, known leftovers, or a gym session that is not food. The FAB is designed as a switchboard, not a single button with a single religion.

This guide maps each FAB destination, when to choose it, and how it feeds Home rings and Progress without turning every entry into a project.

Scan / Snap Track: camera-first capture

Choose Scan when the object is in front of you and vision or packaging helps: meal photos, nutrition labels, barcodes, and drinks. It is the mixed-plate and grocery lane.

Always plan an edit glance before confirm. The FAB gets you into capture; your review makes the diary true—especially on oils and servings.

Describe: when you already know the meal

Describe shines for repeats, leftovers, and simple plates you can name in a sentence. It is often faster than photographing a known bowl under bad lighting.

Be specific: quantities, cooking fat, brand names if relevant. Vague describe inputs create vague macros. Saved meals can still be faster when the text would be identical daily.

Voice-style input: hands-busy moments

Voice helps when your hands are messy or you are walking out of a restaurant. Speak the meal like you would text a coach: foods, amounts, extras.

Verify the transcript before confirm. Voice errors on numbers—“fifty” versus “fifteen”—are expensive. The FAB path is speed with a mandatory sanity check.

Activity: training belongs in the same app

Log workouts from the FAB so food and training share one timeline. That pairing matters for recovery conversations and for avoiding double-counting burned calories in careless ways.

Enter sessions the same day. Retrospective workout fiction helps nobody, especially if Friends auto-share training.

Weight: scale and progress context

Use Weight entry for consistent check-ins—same time of day when possible. Pair with Progress trends rather than reacting to one noisy morning after salty food or alcohol.

If you take progress photos as part of your routine where the product supports them, keep them private and consistent in lighting. They are optional context, not daily punishment.

Choosing a path in under five seconds

Package in hand → barcode/label via Scan. Messy plate → meal photo via Scan. Known leftover → Describe or saved meal. Gym done → Activity. Morning scale → Weight. That decision tree should become reflex.

If you hesitate longer than the meal is interesting, you will skip logging. Speed of path choice is part of adherence.

FAB hygiene on busy weeks

Keep reminders pointing at the FAB moment, not at abstract motivation. The ping should mean “open Quick Log now.”

When one mode breaks—camera issues, OCR fail—rotate to Describe immediately. The FAB’s power is redundancy.

Where Premium meets the FAB

Core AI capture inside Snap Track is Premium by design. The FAB still orients you; Premium unlocks the heavy vision and related AI tools that make Scan powerful on mixed meals.

That honesty matters in guides like this: the switchboard is for everyone to learn, and the AI lanes are a paid compute stack—not a hidden forever-free infinite scanner fantasy.

Bottom line

Master the Quick Log FAB as a switchboard: Scan for camera modes, Describe/Voice for known or hands-busy meals, Activity for training, Weight for check-ins.

Open IGNITE AI’s FAB with a clear lane each time—and let rings fill from confirmed reality instead of from navigation confusion.