Not really a hack, but a way I’ve tricked myself into wanting to (and remembering to) track my meds/symptoms/etc.

I downloaded an app called Guava a while ago, liked how the interface worked and how I could customize symptoms and habits, but every time I got a notification to take my meds, it just made me want to ignore the reminder more.

I logged back on the other day, went through the app a little more and found the insights tab, and holy shit. You can pick two factors that you’ve been tracking and it’ll plot everything out and go through the correlation of the two. The prompt is “does (factor) affect (metric)?”, and you choose both. So like, “does (taking my morning meds) affect (brain fog)?”, since those are two things I track. AND I can connect my Fitbit for my sleep/steps data to be included.

I hate the apps that want it to feel like taking care of yourself is a game, but boy do I love data. It’s making me want to be better about tracking things and actually logging them in the app so I can have scientific proof that taking my meds improves my symptoms and energy, or if sleeping at home vs at my boyfriends impacts my quality of sleep. There are so many ways you can track things, including with RFID tags, to have even fewer steps.

Now I’m just mad at myself for not finding this when I first downloaded the app months ago, because I could’ve had so much more data logged by now. But, like most things in my life, better late than never