Walk Session has always let you narrate what's happening as you move through the garden, instead of stopping to fill in a form. This update rebuilds the actual walking experience around a phone in one hand and secateurs in the other — a proper field mode, drafts that survive a dropped signal or a phone call, and a review screen that flags anything worth a second look before it's saved.
Before this update, Walk Session worked, but it worked like a form that happened to accept voice — small text areas, no clear sense of how long you'd been going or how many entries you'd captured, and nothing to stop you accidentally navigating away and losing the lot. None of that matters much at a desk. All of it matters when you're walking a quarter acre with wet hands.
The new field mode is a single full-screen view: a large mic button, a running count of what you've captured, and a short flash and vibration each time an entry is saved so you know it landed without looking away from the path. Nothing is transcribed and shown back to you mid-walk — that's deliberate. You keep moving, and everything gets sorted out at the end.
The other problem was more basic: what happens if you get a phone call halfway around the garden, or your signal drops near the back fence? Previously, that could mean losing everything you'd said so far. Walk Session now keeps a running draft on your device as you go, so if the app closes or the page reloads partway through, it picks up exactly where you left off rather than starting over.
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Needs a plantunmatched"the tomato thing near the shed" — pick from a list
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MatchedpestKale — cabbage moth caterpillars, medium tank bed
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MatchedharvestedSilverbeet — 1.2 kg, large tank bed
Once you tap "Finish walk", you land on a review screen rather than having everything save blind. Entries the AI matched confidently to one of your plantings are shown as done. Anything ambiguous — a plant it couldn't identify, or a name that matches two plantings in your garden — is surfaced first, with a simple dropdown to pick the right one. Nothing gets silently misfiled to the wrong bed; you get the final say before it's written to your garden's history.
If you'd rather narrow things down before you start talking, the walk setup now lets you optionally scope to a specific bed or planting first — handy if you're spending the whole session on one troublesome tomato rather than doing a full lap. Leave it unscoped for a general walk and the AI works out which plant you mean from what you say, matching it against your actual plantings rather than filing it as a loose note with nothing to click through to.
That plant-matching also got more careful under the hood. If two of your plantings share a name — two apple trees, say, or a couple of unlabelled "tomato" entries — Walk Session now recognises the ambiguity and puts it in front of you on the review screen instead of guessing and attaching your entry to the wrong one. It's a small thing, but it's the difference between a garden history you can trust and one you have to double-check.
Walk Session's field mode is live now — start one from the Activity menu or the dashboard, and give it a proper test the next time you're out doing the rounds. It's built for exactly that: talking as you go, sorting it out once you're done, and trusting that nothing gets lost in between.