I’ve gotten to a decent beta at this point, and I’m eating my own dogfood: my urologist put me on bladder training with a two-hour interval, so the app is set up with that as the default interval.
I’ve been testing it as I go along and added a few things that I needed:
- Custom alert sound. I get enough alerts that I need it to sound different than the others. I’ve got a nice water-drip noise, distinctive but not obtrusive, that fires when the interval is up.
- The process is not loads of fun, so I’ve added a little whimsy to the alert messages.
- I’ve got a live activity so I don’t have to unlock the phone to reset the interval when I go.
- Added quiet hours so it doesn’t ping me every two hours when I’m trying to sleep.
- Explanatory “why the hell are we doing this anyway” text. Okay, I don’t need that, but it’s useful for someone to refresh their memory, or to get an explanation of why we’re doing it if their urologist has said, “make sure you pee every two hours.”
Running with this version a while to see what else it needs. Will look into art and design after it’s functional.
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