Understandable frustration. It would make sense to have this enabled by default for one of the auto modes. But it seems to apply to all modes and no way to turn it off.
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It's a new capability of the AskQuestion tool that they added.
I’ve been suffering from migraines for the past few years and wanted a dead simple way to log when they happen, as well as any other contributing factors I could think of. Inspired by the simplicity of spreadsheets, I built a grid of events, and as you tap on cells, you log “dots”. Those dots, over time, reveal patterns.
I’ve already identified several contributing factors to my migraine triggers using it. It’s been so genuinely useful I wanted to share it with others hoping they might also benefit.
The next big release is coming out later this week which includes visualizations, charts, and on-device analysis of your journal to provide insights.
But I ended up taking it too far. Boundaries start to get blurry, my value started to get wrapped up in my service, to the point it became “well if I stop serving I’ll be worthless”. Which is a tough feeling to face, especially when a subset of the people you end up serving, while appreciative, really end up not caring that much about you as a person. They’re not in a place to give you emotional support, usually.
All that to say, balance is the spice of life. Service is great. Just be sure to balance it out with another source of replenishment.
It’s an iOS app to help tracking events and stats about my day as simple dots. How many cups of coffee? Did I take my supplements? How did I sleep? Did I have a migraine? Think of it like a digital bullet journal.
Then visualizing all those dots together helps me see patterns and correlations. It’s helped me cut down my occurrence of migraines significantly. I released the full app last month and have been learning the difficulty of marketing and social media.
It’s an iOS app to help tracking events and stats about my day as simple dots. How many cups of coffee? Did I take my supplements? How did I sleep? Did I have a migraine? Think of it like a digital bullet journal.
Then visualizing all those dots together helps me see patterns and correlations. It’s helped me cut down my occurrence of migraines significantly. I’m still just in the public beta phase but looking forward to a full release fairly soon.
Would love to hear more feedback on how to improve the app!
I appreciate your interest!
Sort of like a digital bullet journal. You setup some rows of events you want to track, then just tap for when/if that events happens. It’s already helped me spot certain triggers for my migraines, which I can now minimize. My wife has been finding it helpful to diagnose sleep problems. I think it might be super helpful to others with trying to understand lifestyle choices and how it impacts their wellbeing.
About to roll out the beta. Hoping to have a full release by the end of the year.
It’s my first iOS app in 8 years! Learning SwiftUI after UIKit has been quite the shift.
There’s something about another human being caring about my problems, even if it is just because that’s their job, that makes more difference to me than saying the right sequence of words to help me feel better.
In my experience, habitual users can seem perfectly fine but maintaining meaningful relationships has been difficult. Forgetfulness, unfocused thinking, constant talking about the drug or using the drug, etc. all dominate the relationship in those friendships of mine. We all have our baggage and difficulties in a relationship, but with habitual cannabis users it seems to be a prevailing pattern.
I recently tried building out some financial reports using Observable but found myself really stuck on the quirks around HTML and Markdown. It felt like it would have been a great tool if I could just drop down into full HTML templates rather than having to mix in Markdown. Markdown is great for initial prototyping but once I needed to customize some tables outside what the stock controls allowed for it became really impossible. Ultimately I had to scrap the project and move over to Gatsby which allowed for better template control. Though it’s certainly a lot heavier of an option.
Many of your criticisms are accurate. But I don’t know if I’d agree about the country having “too much freedom”.
There is a very real government force in play. It’s just incredibly corrupt. A small number of families essentially control the country with their wealth, and the government has to do what those families want. Or else.
Shortly before I left, a local news outlet called Rappler was pushing hard against the new president at the time, Duterte. He didn’t like that, so he essentially threw the majority of the journalists in jail on trumped up charges. This of course scared off any other would be journalists from reporting on much of anything meaningful. That’s not freedom, that’s tyranny.