ScottB's onMason

We were tasked with tracking specific data over the weekend, starting Thursday morning through Sunday night.  The class chose CLOTHING, BEVERAGES,  and PEOPLE as items to track.  I wanted to suggest we each pick a fourth category of our choice but the discussion was closed after 3catagories and I was not about to suggest more work for the class.  I elected to track a 4th category on my own, that being DIAPER CHANGES.  My son Sawyer had been, at last class, home for just under 36 hours after having lived his first 85 days of life in the neonatal intensive care unit.  Things were going as well as can be expected for two new parents and I thought it would be interesting to keep note of what comes out of my kid.  Turns out that since he was dealing with some constipation, the information recorded was not all that interesting, but it was fun nonetheless. 

Having already explored DAYTUM.com (click for my page) prior to class and ready to dive in, I began my information tracking on my late night baby-shift that night after class instead of the next morning.  My first entry was at 3:01am and I don’t need to get into the specifics but all told that category ended up being rather uneventful. 

Tracking BEVERAGES I started out using a per ounce standard of notation but then I changed it because, and  here’s my big grief with Daytum, the iphone app sucks. It is not intuitive to navigate for the average user, it crashes every time I wanted to adjust the time on an entry, and there are too many different clicks to add value for one item. Why can’t I enter a value on several items all at once and then click save all?  It also took me forever to figure out where to swipe after entering a value just to leave that page.

The full website had its share of problems as well.  Namely, several times when I wanted to adjust the settings, and hence clicked on that tab, I would get an error message of Problem Loading That Page.  I really like the monochromatic theme of the website however, especially in regards to the charting and graphing.  The Pie graph for my PEOPLE category is quite lovely as a result. 

Since my wife’s maternity leave from work was depleted while Sawyer was in the NICU, I am his principal caretaker during the daytime. (As a result, this review of Daytum is completed in fits and starts, coinciding with those of the baby, over the course of several hours). I was really hoping the app would be more accommodating in documenting the data I wished to track but it ended up being more hindering than helpful.

I can see using this site again.  It certainly was interesting and enlightening to look back on the information chronicled, and this was a fun exercise.