I’m building a medical information manager — a place to keep a person’s own medical history together, in a form they control — and I’ve decided to do it in public. This is the first entry.
The reason is not marketing. It’s that the interesting parts of this project are the decisions, and decisions are easier to make well when they’re written down somewhere I can be held to them later. Writing in public also means I can’t quietly revise my reasoning six months from now and pretend it was always the plan.
There is nothing to download yet. No waitlist, no sign-up. The What I’m building page says where the project is; this blog says how it’s going.
What to expect here
- Build notes. Choices about the data model, import formats, and how much the app is allowed to guess about your records.
- Dead ends. Things I tried and abandoned, and what made me abandon them.
- Occasional tangents. Medicine, privacy, software, and whatever else I’m reading.
Some posts will be technical. Most won’t need to be. If you only ever read one kind, read the second.
How to follow
There’s no newsletter — the feed works, and the archive lists everything by date.