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Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities
(www.newsweek.com)
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I don't know much about menstrual cycles. Wouldn't it be easier and just as effective to track with pen and paper?
nah. Think about how good computers are at pattern recognition and long term storage for analysis. Far superior to a pen and paper
I laid awake last night thinking if it would be possible to make an elaborate Excel spreadsheet to accomplish this. I need to research more about the specifics of menstrual cycles, but I think it wouldn't take that much effort. It could be disguised as something else and shared freely, and people could store it locally to ensure privacy.
Do you think Excel=pen and paper?
You guys are talking about the same thing. Excel is a pretty powerful data storage and manipulation app. It excels (heh) at pattern recognition.
No, I don't think they're the same. I was taking the knowledge the poster above provided and brainstorming options.
The main service my period tracker provides is a notification telling me "hey, it's PMS time. If you're emo it's ok, it's probably just hormones and not the real end of the world. You're also likely to hyperfixate on something. Pull out your knitting a fixate on that, instead of risking fixating on something someone said off-handedly a decade ago that now makes you cry".
(The message is user-configurable. Mine doesn't say that verbatum, but that's the gist.)