[stewartbracken]

I recently had our first baby. I created a self hosted web app for tracking diapers, food, etc. Through the delirium of the first month, it’s been so helpful with recalling when and what we did last and staying in communication with my partner without always being awake at the same time. I know there’s other apps out there but I wanted to keep my baby’s health data private. And it’s fun to create a bespoke app tailored to my family’s needs.

[misev]

We're doing this sort of tracking in a Telegram group. We just send messages with a well-defined structure:

    <category code> <time> <optional description>

e.g.

    S 2000
    W 0800
    F 0900 banana
    P 1010
    ...

    (S = sleep, W = wake up, F = food, P = poop, etc.)

Every few months I copy paste the messages from Telegram into a text file and have a script to parse, clean it up and add the dates. Would be fun to try some data science on the past few years of this data.. at some point :)