I was just looking through the ~300 ish suggestions for features. To me, it seems to make a lot of sense for the devs to work on creating the infrastructure for users to create their own methods of tracking. That way, you can track whatever you want instead of lobbying for your idea for months or years and hoping it gains steam and the devs implement it.

So, for this idea, in the app, you could hit “track new” and then select what kind of method you’d like to use. Maybe you could choose from a simple yes/no for the day or time period, a numeric value or duration, a rating scale like 1-10 or 1-5, key words, etc. You could also combine them, like if you want to track your workouts you could enter a duration, then a rating for intensity or satisfaction, etc. The devs could still make templates for us, to make it easy as pie for the average user. So, for example, a ‘template’ would be like the current Bowel Movement section where it already has a sliding scale, a quality, and an amount. That’s just three ways of logging something combined into one section or ‘template’ - in this case is titled “bowel movements” but it could be titled Menstrual Cycle (to borrow one of the top suggestions at the moment).

If the devs created the infrastructure for us to let our imaginations run wild, the possibilities would be endless. Plus, the devs would have more time to focus on more complicated things the average user can’t or doesn’t want to do - like improving the ways Insights works. The average user probably doesn’t have a degree in data science or analytics, but we can probably figure out how to select Duration and Quality to create our own Sleep Tracking template. Another example would be integrations - the devs could spend more time working on integrations with other services (something users cannot do themselves).

TL;DR: Devs create ways for us to create our own ways of tracking literally anything instead of the devs addressing our specific feature requests one-by-one.