mySymptoms Food Diary

I’m now using it for 2 months and it’s starting to feel really disorganised and there are no more clear results. It’s also really basic and for the price I expected a little more clarity and connections/information.

It is a very good app. The good thing is that you can use it for years. It doesn’t go away. You can make the conclusions yourself.

First of all, thanks for creating this handy app! A lot of things have been well thought of!
We have some suggestions for improvement:
Analysis is done on the same time windows for all bowels and symptoms. This makes them useless for our use case onfortunately. The time windows should be adjustable per symptom per user. Eg skin rash happens within minutes to hours; bowel varies per person and in our case a window from 12 to 48 hours would be more appropriate.
Multiple entries for ‘is a kind of’. That way you can label a tomato as a kind of vegetable, and as a nightshade, and as a high histamine food. This will help identify intolerances to food groups.
If copying an item from past to present, please jump to the present (copied to date) after finishing the copying process, instead of jumping back to the past (copied from date). This saves tons of clicks and lots of confusion.
Offer search within diary, so if you have a suspicion, you can easily find it and see what syptoms there were (or not), what other foods it was combined with etc. Now, this is only possible by creating a pfd and searching that.
On export to pdf: also offer option to save to documents, save to ibooks or something alike. Now it is only possible to mail it, and saving it is an extra hassle with unnessecary extra steps.
Option to have ingredients sorted by sequence of entry (time descending), so we can enter them like ingredients on packages: largest ingredient first, smallest last. This is because entering exact measurements is too much work most of the time, but with a sequence of largest first we can see if it was a main ingredient or a minor. This is important for intolerances that have a threshold, where consuming a little bit is no problem, but large amounts do cause havoc.

Timing in my diet is very important and with this app I can register what time I ate, when I exercised and what time I toke supplements. Another pro of this app is the user friendliness, adding something takes only a few seconds!

It doesn't recognize dutch barcodes. And when I add the product myself, I'm not able to add the full ingredients list with all the additives. But the overall idea of this app is very good.

Een handige app als je zoekt naar relaties tussen voeding en symptomen. Ik gebruik het nog maar een paar dagen, maar lijkt goed te werken. Bv. de app laat een relatie zien tussen stoelgang en vezelrijke producten. Dat geeft vertrouwen dat ook andere relaties zichtbaar worden.

Gemakkelijk om dieetdagboek bij te houden. Overzicht per dag is handig. Analyse is twijfelachtig, maar misschien is die bij langer gebruik betrouwbaarder.

Makkelijk aan te passen aan je eigen situatie. Alles is mogelijk. Werkt heel fijn Nu nog de synchronisatie tussen de iDevices en dan is het echt perfect. Maar dit is beloofd voor een update. Daarom 5 sterren!