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weight tracking
Michele Sacchetti
suggested this on January 09, 2011 16:30
Being able to track/plot baby weight.
more in general being able to add a "trackable" activity when it is a numerical one (weight,height, etc...) and therefore plot it
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I was going to suggest this too.....beat me to it. LOL
We are currently interviewing other developers to help us create the weight tracking charts (we just don't have time for all the features!) So hopefully weight tracking will be added in the next couple of months. I'll let you know more as things progress.
Yes, a growth chart (weight & height specifically) would be great!
This would be a great feature! Waiting with baited breath :o)
Yes, Please!!!
This would be a huge help, especially to those with twins or other multiples.
How long will it take to add this little extra? Three months? Three years? Common do it, this will be great for all of us! Pleeeeeeease!
I don't know how long, definitely closer to 3 months than 3 years!
We tried to hire an outside developer to help with weight tracking but that didn't work out so well so we'll have to give it another shot.
It isn't a trivial amount of work, especially the graphs are tricky. We might start work on just collecting the data and worry about the graphs later I guess.
This would be really great - especially if it could show and compare to national percentiles of weight, length and head circumference.
I'd love for this to be able to reference both the CDC growth charts and the WHO growth charts.
Even if it doesn't I'm really excited about being able to track weight, height, and head circumference in this app!
We have started working on the weight/height/head circumference tracking feature for Baby ESP!
It will be in the next major upgrade, version 1.5. Stay tuned for more announcements.
Thank you, perfect!
Can't wait for 1.5 version.
Don't waste time making it all specific to weight, height, etc. Just add a numerical value field next to the "notes" field in everything tracked (including the custom things users add). Then users can add whatever numerical thing they want: weight, head size, temperature, etc.
It just requires adding the 1 field next to notes and then making that plot-able (in addition to number of times / total duration per day).
You don't have to worry about units either. Leave it up to the users. They can either be consistent and not even document or they can put the units used in the notes field.
In hopes that this doesn't sound like we're ganging up on Karl... I'm with Lezli. I'd like to see this as a fully integrated (graphing, reporting, etc.) feature.
Let me be clear, I'm responding mostly to Peter's comments about needing to call in an outside developer. I agree that a full-blown weight tracking with fancy features would be great. I just don't think that a basic numerical weight value field would be nearly as hard and wanted to make sure the developers thought about that. Doing what I suggested wouldn't cause much/any delay on then customizing the weight value tracking. But the point is not to delay improving on storing weight numbers in the "notes" string in order to do nice bells and whistles.
I.e., weight "values" (along with arbitrary other numerical values, all chart-able) is much much better than current state of only having "notes" field. Whiz-bang weight-specific stuff like comparing to growth charts is nice-to-have better but not as much of an improvement and thus shouldn't delay the former.
Chelsea & Brian, you seem to be under the misconception that what I suggested wasn't fully integrated with graphs and reporting, but that's not true. An arbitrary value field should allow full graphing and reporting. But it should be done such that every numerical value can be graphed (temp, size, etc.), not just weight. If that can be done for the same effort, what's not to prefer about that?
Any update when this will be added? I was under the impression it was going to be added in May?