Our Story
Built for Annie.
Shared with you.
Annie started getting pain in her hands in March. By April she couldn't grip anything. By summer she needed a wheelchair to leave the house, and I was lifting her out of bed every morning.
We're still waiting for a diagnosis.
"If you've been through this, you know how it goes. You wait weeks for an appointment. You get 15 minutes with a consultant. You try to explain months of symptoms while your brain fog makes it hard to remember what happened yesterday. Then you wait again."
I started going to every appointment with her. Taking notes. Keeping a timeline. Pulling together test results from different hospitals. Trying to spot patterns in symptoms that change hour to hour. I've lost count of how many times we've told her story from the beginning to a new doctor.
It helped having me there, but I'm not the one who's ill. Annie needed a way to track things herself. Something simple enough to use on bad days. Something that didn't need her to type or navigate menus when her hands aren't working.
Just talk and be done.
So I built it for her.
What Annie's Journal does
Annie's Journal lets you check in by voice. It picks out the symptoms, tracks them over time, and gives you something useful to bring to your next appointment.
No forms to fill in. No complicated menus. Just say how you're feeling, and we'll handle the rest.
Open source, privacy-first
Annie's Journal is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. Your health data belongs to you. We don't sell it, we don't analyze it for advertising, and you can export or delete it whenever you want.
View on GitHubI made it for Annie. But if you're going through something similar, maybe it'll help you too.
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