Medication Reminder & Log Using NFC?

[pandemicmonkee]

@sylumer

Yes it could, but it does mean that you would have to take the dose immediately. I know that sort of approach would not work for everyone who has ADHD (I have family with ADHD), but the question was intentionally a leading one to see what sort of way you’re inclined.

Yes, that would be my approach as part of my routine when getting ready for work in the morning.
While giving it more thought, I was thinking on tap after taking the first dose, trigger a four-hour countdown timer could be triggered, maybe using an app like Timery or just the iOS Timer app.

@sylumer

Data Jar is a good, easy access option for storing data. There would be numerous ways to approach this, and certainly some sort of list of timestamps for each medication is probably quite a good way to log the dose history. However, to make things quick and easy for the daily checks, I’d be tempted to also have a second variable to store just the last time the medication was taken so you can do a date check against it without having to go through and figure out if a timestamp for today appears in the list or matches the last line added or whatever.

I’m all for quick and easy and not to try and overthink this process too much. It just needs to be reliable. I like the second variable idea just checking for the last time the medication was taken.
I need to look into using Data Jar and how I would go about laying out a database.

I do the the simplicity of this shortcut, Last Dose https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/9b8d4dc6bc8349cea7641b5af20baf12

However, it only works with one dose at a time. I imagine it would get complicated to have multiple doses applied.

I’m going to have to work on breaking my needs down into manageable chunks and go from there.
Thanks again, for your input!