I would love it if this would allow me to make a health+mental health planning and then keep track of what goals I achieve often, and which ones I miss often.

Example: - I want to do gentle neck stretches once every 3 days (long term: 15 minutes yoga) - I want to cook a proper dinner once a week (long term: 3x) - I want to order new medication every x applications - I want to do date night every 2 weeks (long term: every week) - I want to be alcohol/caffeine free 6 days a week - I want to see my doctor once every 6 months

And then it keeps track of which things I don’t achieve (so I know I either need to make my goal easier or request help), which things I achieve more often (so I can make it harder, or add something new to the roster), and what effect these things might have on mood, sleep, and symptoms. Example: stretches might worsen my symptoms but improve sleep. Cooking might worsen symptoms for a day but provide a mood boost for multiple days.

These are all great things to know and can really help someone make a better planning for health and mental health management.

Opinion here (I’m a programmer with relevant experience in app development)

I understand Bearable is an app about health, but its area of expertise seems to be collecting data points related to symptom management: factors (the things that may incite a symptom), moods, (interpreting the impact of symptoms) and remediation (treatments, medications, nutrition). Then converting that data into helpful analysis.

A health journal is informative, and a necessary part of successful health management. Sometimes a journal entry correlates to factors, symptoms or remedies. We should be tracking them in Bearable. But trying to build Bearable around journaling establishes different user interface requirements, potentially making the app try to be too many things for too many people.

My recommendation/opinion: There are many other apps that focus on health journaling. The best way to solve this problem for all involved is for you to find one of those apps ready for your needs today and encourage our Bearable programmers to integrate with it.

Bearable could be built to send relevant entries to your health journal app too. That way you continue to have the perfect tools.

I’m not sure I understand your point. Daily goals would be a checklist with reminders, that doesn’t sound more complicated than the medication section + reminders we already have available. Many people already use Bearable to track their daily habits/progress toward a certain goal, having a separate section would just make it more convenient.

And many people already use Bearable as a health journal (rather than as an analysis tool) and to replace other apps. Integrating with apps like Samsung Health, Google Fit etc makes sense because most people already have one of these apps on their phones. And integrating these with Bearable means that users don’t have to enter manually data that their phone already registers automatically, like steps and hours asleep. But if you ask Bearable users what their favourite habit/goal/medication tracking app is you would probably get at least half a dozen different answers, as well as a significant proportion of people who don’t want to use a separate app or haven’t found one that fits their needs.

It seems to me that creating a basic, stand-alone habit/goal tracking section and maybe adding more features down the road would satisfy more users than focusing on integration with other apps.

Of course not everyone needs or wants a separate goals section. But not everyone needs or wants the bowel movements or energy levels section, or any of the tracking options that are already in the app either.

This is basically saying that Bearable needs a habit tracker. If so, I’m all for it as I can relate positive habits with improved mood.

I had a very similar idea: goals and projections with integrated insights.

So I could set a goal of only having 10 “high screen time” days this month. As I log, the app would tell me something like “to meet your goal you can only have 5 high screen time days in the next 14 days.”

It would also be awesome if the app brought up the most correlated factors with “high screen time” and recommended some course of action or considerations to help me achieve the goal.

Maybe I could also set a reminder every morning for my goal progress and motivation to stick to it.

It’d be cool if goals were integrated into insights instead of it’s own section on the home page. That way, while browsing insights, I can tap any metric and set a relevant goal.

Goal setting would be amazing! And encouragement reminders for things like “have you eaten? Have an afternoon snack” and maybe like stickers for achieving it or something. These small things can be amazing to keep engagement and motivation for ADHD minds like mine that forget or struggle to achieve goals without a “reward”.

Currently you’ve added daily goal tracking as a beta version. It’s a nice habit tracker but so far it doesn’t appear to relate to any of the other info. It would be nice to see how achieving my goals is affected by other factors. There’s probably a way to get this information by creating certain symptoms with certain factors but I don’t think it’s the best way to do it.

Would also be nice to be able to track bigger projects and what factors affect my progress. For example I’ve been trying to clean out my basement to be able to renovate it. I rarely work on it. But when I do it would be nice to know the factors or to be able to chart the frequency I actually work on it.