Okay, fine. Activity trackers for health and fitness I get. But has anyone done activity trackers for people with chronic illness that helps you *keep within your spoons*?

For some people it can be easy to overdo it. Also eg if you've had COVID or have long COVID, would it be helpful to have an activity tracker that explicitly helps you take it slow and not over-exert yourself?

I mean, you're supposed to *rest* when getting over COVID never mind long COVID, but my cursory review doesn't show activity trackers with an explicit convalescence mode, you know, 2+ years into a pandemic that will never end.
I guess if you wanna get all *aesthetic* about it, it's a cozy tracker. More stuff like Gentler Streak please.
Welp, that's today's episode then.
@[email protected] I mean, I do remember getting annoyed at Apple Health when it pinged me that I was walking much less than the previous month – I had broken my leg! I do think it would be interesting for these trackers to start to support both dramatic and gradual personal health changes. It's a more complicated conceptual model, but think how much better it would be for the ostensible purpose of these trackers
@danhon File this under different-but-related gripe: I am still unable to make my bitmoji/meta/cartoonish/whatever you want to call it avatar reflect that I have a mole on my chin or even that I have gray hair and crow's feet wrinkles. Instead, I have to be reminded I am not an impossibly smooth and young version of myself anymore
@danhon What ties all of this together: there is often more nuance and broader uses for products than what product teams are often able to envision. If you are a company making fitness trackers and all your employees are young and fit, you should consider you are doing it wrong. If all your engineers building the avatar code are under 25, you're doing it wrong.
@harrisj @danhon Or maybe they're understaffed? Or focused on building an ad-placement system, instead of actually improving the product?