Guide
How to log workouts from Apple Notes
Copy the note, paste it into the Add tab in marble, and review the sets it builds before you save. Gym shorthand like Bench 3x8 @ 185 is read on every device. A note that covers several days is split into separate workouts.
Steps
- Copy your workout from Notes. It can be one session or a whole week.
- Open Add in marble and paste into Paste or type your workout. As you type or paste, a live preview lists each exercise with its set count.
- Fix anything flagged. Lines marble can’t read yet are listed separately, not dropped. Rewrite one in standard notation, like
Bench 3x8 @ 185, and it joins the workout. - Review. Check each exercise match, set, date, RPE, rest and note. A multi-day note opens as a list of workouts that you can select one by one.
- Save. If you leave halfway, your draft is kept, and you can resume the review later with your edits intact.
Notation marble understands
Every example below is read on the device by marble’s parser, without Apple Intelligence.
| You write | marble logs |
|---|---|
Squat 5x5 or 5×5 | 5 sets of 5 |
Bench Press 3x8 @ 185 | 3 sets of 8 at 185 lb |
Deadlift 3x3 @ 100 kg | 3 sets of 3 at 100 kg |
Bench 135x5 155x3 175x1 | 3 sets, one per pair |
Bench 225x5/3/1 | 5, 3 and 1 reps at 225 |
Bench 3x10-8-6 | 10, 8 and 6 reps |
Pull ups 3x12 | 3 sets of 12, no weight |
Plank 3x45s or 3x1:00 | timed sets |
Run 5k 25:00, Row 2000m 7:30 | distance and time |
Sprints 4x20m | 4 reps of 20 m |
Bench Press 3x8 @ 185 rest 90s | rest of 90 seconds on each set |
Squat 5x5 @ 225 RPE 8 | RPE 8 on each set |
Pushups 3xAMRAP | 3 sets, no rep count |
EMOM 10 min: 5 burpees | 10 sets of 5 |
A few more details: 3 rounds: on its own line repeats the exercises below it. rest 3 means three minutes, while rest 90 means 90 seconds. Calf raises 4x8-10 records the lower end of the range. RPE 8, rpe9 and @RPE 8 all set effort, but a bare @ 8 is read as a weight.
Several days in one note
marble starts a new workout at a line that is only a date or a label: 3/5, March 5, Monday, Yesterday, Day 1 or Day 2: Legs.
Monday — Push
Bench 3x8 @ 185 lb
Cable fly 3x12
Wednesday — Pull
Deadlift 3x5 @ 225 lb
Pull ups 3x8This becomes two workouts. A date on the same line as a set, like 3/5 Bench 3x8, stays a set and doesn’t start a new day. A line like “felt strong today” is kept as a note.
Limits worth knowing
- Full sentences such as “did 4 sets of squats at 225 for 5 reps” need Apple Intelligence. When it’s available on your device, marble uses it on device to structure the prose. Without it, the line is flagged for you to rewrite in shorthand.
- Percentages like
at 85%and tempo notes liketempo 3-0-1are ignored, not logged as weights. - Whatever you paste, you review it before anything is saved.
