On the web version of Cronometer, you can copy and paste Diary entries such as foods, exercises, and biometrics from one date to another, or from one Diary Group to another.
There are several ways to copy and paste your Diary entries, depending on what you’d like to copy. You can access these options through the right-click menu or the Diary Settings menu.
- Copy a single item or multiple items
- Copy an entire diary group
- Copy an entire day
- Paste copied entries into diary
- Copy the previous day (shortcut)
- Copy entries to today (shortcut)
Copy
Copy a single item or multiple items
You can copy an individual food, exercise, or biometric entry, or you can copy multiple entries at a time.
- Click on the diary entry you want to copy (to select multiple items hold down down the shift key on your keyboard)
- Click on the 3 dots in the top-right corner of your diary to open your Diary Settings menu OR right-click on your selections to open the right-click menu
Select Copy Selected items
In the Diary Settings menu:
In the right-click menu:
Copy an entire diary group
You can copy everything in a diary group (e.g. Breakfast or Dinner)
- Click on the header of the diary group you want to copy followed by the 3 dots in the top-right corner of your diary to open your Diary Setting menu OR right-click on your diary group header to open the right-click menu
Select Copy Selected items
Copy an entire day
You can copy everything logged on a particular day.
- Navigate to the day you want to copy
- Click on the 3 dots in the top-right corner of your diary to open your Diary Settings menu
Select Copy Current Day
Paste
Paste copied entries into diary
- Navigate to the day you want to paste items into
- Click on the 3 dots in the top-right corner of your diary to open your Diary Settings menu
Select Paste
Note this will automatically paste the item into the same diary group as the day you copied from. To paste copied entries in to a specific diary group:
- Click on the header of the diary group you want to paste into followed by the 3 dots in the top-right corner of your diary to open your Diary Settings menu OR right-click on the diary group header to open the right-click menu
Select Paste
Shortcuts
Copy the previous day
Cronometer provides a shortcut that lets you quickly copy and paste everything from the previous day to the day you’re currently viewing:
- Click on the 3 dots in the top-right corner of your diary to open your Diary Settings Menu
Select Copy Previous Day
Copy entries to today
Cronometer also provides a shortcut that lets you quickly copy entries from a past date directly into today’s Diary. You can use Copy to Today to copy selected item(s) or an entire day and paste into today's date.
To copy everything logged on a particular day to today:
- Navigate to the day in your Diary that you want to copy
- Click on the 3 dots in the top-right corner of your diary to open your Diary Settings Menu
- Select Copy To Today
To copy a single item logged on a particular day to today:
- Right-click on the diary entry you want to copy to open the right-click menu
- Select Copy To Today
Note this will automatically paste the item into the same diary group as the day you are copying from.