Creating Sessions

Learn how to create and manage climbing sessions in Chalky.

What is a Session?

A session is one climbing outing: a couple of hours at the gym, or a whole weekend at the crag. It holds when and where you climbed, plus every route you attempted.

Creating a New Session

To create a new session:

1. Open Chalky to the Journal tab (it opens here by default)
2. Tap the + button in the bottom-right corner to start a new session
3. Fill in the session details

Session Details

When creating a session, you can specify:

• Start time — When did you start climbing? Defaults to now
• Venue — Where did you climb? Type it, or pick from your own venues and nearby gyms
• Discipline — Bouldering (indoor/outdoor), sport (indoor/outdoor), trad, ice, mixed, aid, free solo, or scrambling
• End time — Set when you finish the session; duration is shown derived from start and end
• Rating & energy — Optional 1–5 ratings for how the session felt
• Goals & focus — Optional notes on what you wanted to work on and what you'll focus on next time

Venues

Start typing and Chalky suggests places you've logged before. When you're online it also searches for climbing gyms near you and shows how far away each one is, which helps when your gym has several branches. Typing the name by hand always works, so nothing here depends on having signal.

A gym you pick from the search becomes one of your venues when you save the session, so next time it's already in the list. Back out before saving and nothing is kept.

The name is yours. Change it in the venue field and it changes everywhere you've climbed there, so if you call it "the woody" your journal does too. Only you ever see the names you give your venues.

Clearing the field removes the link. That's how you say you climbed somewhere else.

Managing Sessions

Editing a Session

To edit a session:

1. Open the session from your Journal
2. Tap the pencil on the top-right of the session card
3. Make your changes
4. Tap Save Changes

Deleting a Session

To delete a session:

1. Open the session from your Journal
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page
3. Tap Delete This Session
4. Read what the delete takes with it, then confirm

Session Notes

You can add notes to any session to record:

• Weather conditions
• Energy levels
• Specific goals
• General reflections

These notes become part of your climbing journal and can be searched later.

Next Steps

With a session created, the next step is logging the routes you climbed.