I’m not familiar with how they work or what kinds of data they track and return. Would they be useful to track things like plant feeder changes, cpap cleaning schedules, ant farm maintenance…
Can you think useful alternative applications and life hacks for these apps?
edit: I know that there are alternative scheduling apps for virtually any need. That’s not the point. I like finding new and useful ways to use existing things.
No idea, but I love them. I am terrible at tracking otherwise, and the app has saved me so many times from being caught unprepared.
I’m not familiar with how they work or what kinds of data they track and return.
Uh, they track menstrual cycles. So unless you have a thing that runs on a roughly 21-35 day cycle, there’s not much dual use to get from a period tracking app.
Are you trying to think of an alternative use for when cops try to use the app data to prosecute a woman when she miscarries? There are probably some plants that need to be watered ~monthly. Like a cactus or succulent.
Could I use one to track the lunar cycle?
Don’t, just don’t, or maybe do. A lot of those apps phone home with your period info to help marketers and the secret police infer when you might be pregnant. So if you’re going to use such an app at all, use it for anything except actual period tracking. That should at least confuse them.
Poison the data
That’s the goal. Maybe “Flowmeister AI” becomes the best Chia Pet tracker and makes gestapo searches useless.
I don’t think period trackers can be used for that because schedules and such are supposed to alert you to something. But with period trackers you tell them when something happened. Specifically when the first blood and the last blood appeared. I don’t think any of them give you a message of “expect to feel awful today”.
But maybe they can be used to track natural occuring cycles like when a fast growing plant is ready for harvest maybe.
Edit: I often use Did I take my meds as a flexible scheduler.
Period expected in 2 days can mean it’s time to change your water filter or clean out your fridge or whatever. And the symptoms can be used to mean something else
Lunar cycle
Monthly hot tub maintenance. ;)