App a Day: Remembering details and events is a natural use for a smartphone app, and when you're dealing with the frequent need to take down information about the health status of a child with disability, being able to punch it into your phone instead of waiting until you get home and hoping you remember is a terribly helpful use of technology. One such app is My Epilepsy Diary, which grew out of an online program on the Epilepsy.com site and is now available for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android. (That's the Android version pictured.)
According to the site, "Whenever you [or in this case, your child] experience a seizure, side effect, mood change, or other personal event related to your epilepsy, log onto My Epilepsy Diary from your ... smart phone. Record what happened and fill in the details quickly using the many common situations My Epilepsy Diary already provides. My Epilepsy Diary also helps you track all your medications and dosages, even for non-epilepsy medications and vitamins."
You can then print out a report of all those goings-on to give to your child's doctor instead of having to remember that time when your child did that thing that sort of looked like something. The iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad version is available through the iTunes store, and the Android version is available ... well, wherever Android users get apps. Where is that, exactly? Give this iPhone user a clue in the comments.
If you've used My Epilepsy Diary, fill out a review form -- one for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and a new one for Android apps -- or to share another app we should know about for any of those formats.
Screenshot courtesy of Epilepsy.com
Oops! Android Apps are in the Android Market. Please remember that Android is a much more available and faster growing system then Apple and is available on most every carrier.
Trina, where is the Android Market? Does it just exist on your phone? With the iTunes store, there’s an online store where I can get urls that direct people right to the app, but I wasn’t able to find that for the Android Market — just a collection of the top apps, no way to search for others.
I hope that those who use Android will write reviews of apps they used, and report in on special-needs apps they’re seeing in the Android Market. While I understand that it’s a very available and fast-growing system, it does seem to me that at this point, most of the development of special-needs apps has focused on the Apple devices, and Apple has promoted them with a special-education category in the store. Perhaps as Android app development continues that will change.
Is there anything available for the Blackberry?