Workout Manager

An exercise library, reusable routines, and a workout log, in one widget. All data — categories, exercises, routines and every logged workout — lives in one persisted JSON note, so it's a single note you can back up, inspect, or migrate.

Setup

1. Install the addon and enable it.
2. Open its launcher note (workout-manager@beatlink) to use the widget.
3. Optionally, open the addon's settings screen to pick weight/distance units, a default rest time, and how many workouts a week you're aiming for.

Exercises

The Exercises tab is the library everything else refers to. Each exercise has a name, how it is measured, optional equipment, the muscles it works, categories, and free-text notes.

Measured as decides which fields a set of that exercise carries, everywhere it appears:

Measured as	A set records
Weight & Reps	reps and weight
Bodyweight Reps	reps
Duration	duration in minutes
Cardio	duration in minutes and distance

Every set also has an optional RPE. The measurement is a property of the exercise, so changing it changes which fields are shown for sets already logged — the recorded numbers themselves are never touched.

wger lookup

Add Exercise opens a form with a search box that queries the public wger exercise database — around 850 exercises, no account and no API key needed. Picking a result prefills the name, equipment, muscles and the wger category (as a Trilium-side category tag), and guesses the measurement: anything in wger's Cardio category becomes Cardio, anything needing no equipment becomes Bodyweight Reps, everything else Weight & Reps. Everything is still editable before saving, and exercises can always be typed in entirely by hand instead.

wger's API has no substring search endpoint, so the whole English exercise index is fetched once per page load (a few seconds on the first search, instant afterwards) and searched locally. If wger is unreachable, the form says so and manual entry carries on working.

Routines

A routine is a plan: an ordered list of exercises, each with a number of sets, the targets those sets aim at, a rest time, and an optional note. Which targets a routine entry offers follows the exercise's own measurement — a Weight & Reps exercise asks for reps and weight, a Cardio one for duration and distance.

Start Today on a routine creates a workout in today's log, pre-filled: one entry per routine exercise, with that entry's sets already created at its target numbers. Logging is then a matter of correcting what actually happened.

Routines are plans only. Editing or deleting a routine never changes a workout already logged from it.

Log

The Log tab is one day at a time — arrows step a day, the date field jumps anywhere, Today comes back. A day holds any number of workouts, each of which can be started from a routine or created empty and filled in as you go.

Everything in a logged workout is edited in place and saved as you type: its name and note, the exercises in it, and each set's numbers. Add Set copies the previous set of the same exercise, since sets usually repeat the previous load. The workout header totals its sets, its volume (weight × reps, for weight-based exercises), and any duration and distance in it.

Deleting an exercise from the library leaves workouts that used it alone — those sets stay in the log and show as Deleted exercise rather than silently disappearing.

Stats

Two tables:

• Last 8 weeks — workouts (against the weekly target from settings), sets, volume, duration and distance per training week, weeks starting Monday.
• Personal bests — per exercise, the best result that means something for its measurement: heaviest weight plus estimated 1RM (Epley: weight × (1 + reps / 30)) for weight training, most reps for bodyweight, longest duration, or furthest distance. Also total sets, total volume, and when it was last done. The history button expands every set ever recorded for that exercise, newest first.

Categories

Exercises and routines share one set of categories, which nest with /: Push/Chest is Chest inside Push. The category list is the union of the categories you create here and any typed straight into an exercise or routine form, so nothing is ever hidden. Renaming a category takes its subtree with it, and renaming onto an existing name merges the two. Deleting a category removes it (and its subcategories) from everything tagged with it; the exercises and routines themselves are kept.

Units

Weights and distances are plain numbers labelled with the units chosen in settings (kg/lb, km/mi). Switching a unit relabels what is displayed — it never converts or rewrites recorded numbers.

Import and export

Export JSON downloads the whole database as one file. Import JSON merges such a file back in by id: exercises and routines are added alongside what's already there, and workouts already present are skipped, so importing the same file twice changes nothing and nothing is ever wiped.

Importing from Liftosaur

Import Liftosaur takes either file Liftosaur exports and merges it in the same way:

• the full JSON backup — Settings → Export data to file, saved as liftosaur-YYYYMMDD.json
• the history CSV — Export history to CSV

Both bring in every workout, its exercises, and each performed set's reps, weight and RPE. Ids are derived from the Liftosaur data rather than generated, so re-importing a newer export adds only the workouts that weren't there before.

Which file to prefer: the CSV names exercises the way the app displays them (Bench Press, Barbell) and carries target/synergist muscles for every exercise. The JSON identifies built-in exercises by their internal id, so their names are reconstructed from it (benchPress → Bench Press) and only custom exercises bring muscles along. The CSV therefore gives a tidier library; the JSON is the complete backup.

What is not imported:

• Warmup sets and sets that were never performed — both are counted in the summary message.
• Programs. Liftosaur programs are Liftoscript, which computes sets and weights per workout; they have no equivalent as a plain set/rep routine, so routines are left to you to write.
• Everything Liftosaur logs is reps and weight, so imported exercises come in as Weight & Reps, or as Bodyweight Reps when no set ever carried weight. Change an exercise's measurement afterwards if it should be Duration or Cardio.

Liftosaur stores every weight with its own unit. The import converts them all onto one unit and the summary says which — if that isn't the unit set in settings, change Weight Unit to match, since this addon labels weights rather than converting them.

Settings

Setting	Description
Weight Unit	Label shown beside every weight (kg or lb).
Distance Unit	Label shown beside every cardio distance (km or mi).
Default Rest	Rest seeded into a new routine entry.
Workouts Per Week	The target each week in the Stats tab is measured against.
Render Note	An existing note to turn into a second view of the widget. Selecting it converts that note into a render note; clearing it reverts the previous one to a text note.

Credits

Exercise data comes from wger, licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0.