Health

On the day, nobody installs anything. Whatever is already on the phone is what you have.

A tracker that demands a weight for every ingredient gets abandoned by Thursday.

A scanner is a shortcut to reading the label. It is not a substitute for reading the label.

Ten minutes at a desk is a different exercise from forty minutes at bedtime, and most apps are built for the second one.

Knowing it is a high pollen day at nine in the morning is worth more than any antihistamine taken at four in the afternoon.

A contraction timer is a stopwatch with good manners. It is not monitoring anything.

Nobody remembers accurately in a consulting room. A page of dates does the remembering for you.

The counter is not the useful part. The five minutes it asks you to wait is.

The hardest part of managing someone else's medicines is not remembering the dose. It is knowing whether someone else already gave it.

Deleting the app works until you reinstall it on the train. Adding friction works for longer.

The phone will be in the bedroom regardless. The question is what it is doing there.

The free tier is usually enough. The trick is knowing which feature each app puts behind the wall.