Removing things, and what happens to unsaved edits
Removals that would destroy authored work ask first and name what they are removing, and an open recipe editor keeps your edits until you save, even if you leave the browser tab.
Two things protect the work you put into programs and nutrition plans: removals ask before they destroy anything, and an open recipe editor holds your edits until you save them.
Removals ask first
Anything that would throw away authored work opens a short confirmation that names what is about to go:
| Removing | You are asked |
|---|---|
| A workout from a program day | Named, with the day number, and told it stays in your library |
| A nutrition template from a program day | Named, with the day number, and told it stays in your library |
| A recipe (embedded template) from a nutrition template | Named in the title, with its ingredient count |
| A whole week from a program | Named, and told the weeks after it move up |
The name matters more than the warning. On a week grid of similar-looking days, “Are you sure?” does not tell you whether the right thing is about to go; naming Upper Body A and day 8 does.
Three things worth knowing:
- Removing is not deleting. Taking a workout or a nutrition template off a day removes it from that day only. The template stays in your Vault and any other day still using it is untouched.
- Reordering is never guarded. Dragging, collapsing and rearranging stay instant. Only the destructive actions ask.
- Clearing a single day does not ask. Clear this day on the day menu runs immediately, and it empties four kinds of thing rather than one. Clear days over a range does open a dialog, so you can check the range first. Both are covered in Editing the weekly grid.
An open recipe editor keeps your edits
When you open a recipe inside a nutrition template, your changes live in that editor until you press Save. That is deliberate: you can try an ingredient swap, look at what it does to the macros, and back out by closing the editor without saving.
Because those edits are unsaved by design, they are also protected:
- Leaving the browser tab and coming back does not reset the editor. Check a message, look something up, return, and your in-progress recipe is exactly as you left it.
- Nothing is written to the recipe until you press Save, so closing the editor still discards the draft as it always did.
The surrounding nutrition template behaves differently and always has: edits to the template itself (its meals, its name, its ordering) save automatically as you work, which is why you see the “All changes saved” marker on that screen.
Back to the Vault overview, or see how a plan strings workouts and nutrition across weeks in Programs and the weekly grid.