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Notes on noticing
Thoughts on gentle self-tracking, privacy, and making sense of the patterns in everyday life.
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How to keep a migraine trigger diary (and find the triggers that show up a day later)
A gentle, practical guide to keeping a migraine trigger diary, from what to write down to how long it takes, and why some triggers are so hard to spot on your own.
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A pattern is a question, not an answer
How Patterns decides what to show you, why it sometimes shows nothing, and how to read what it finds with curiosity rather than worry.
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Setting up trackers that tell you something
A few small choices when you create a tracker make a big difference to what Patterns can notice later. Here's what we've learned.
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Why Patterns has no account and no server
The things people track are often the most personal parts of their lives. So we built Patterns so that nobody else, including us, can read them.