Hi everyone! I’m Begüm from Ankara.
I’m an industrial designer and architect, and I’m very happy to join the QS community!
I’ve been self-tracking for nearly a decade, and my habit became even more serious after my epilepsy diagnosis. For anyone who doesn’t know, epilepsy actually has hundreds of different types, so I needed to understand my own pattern. But no doctor could offer a definitive answer.
So I started tracking everything:
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sleep
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medication
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stress
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nutrition
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screen time
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weather
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daily routines and notes
Over the years, I compared data across different apps, exported screenshots, layered graphs, and even digitized pages from my notebooks. After about three years of long-term correlations, I was finally able to identify my primary trigger.
The result: I’ve been seizure-free for two years!
Self-tracking truly changed my health and my life.
Now, as a designer researching data visualization, I’m studying how people make sense of their scattered data across apps, devices, and notebooks. I’m also working on an app for this, and I’d love to hear how you all deal with it.
Looking forward to connecting and learning from your experiences.
Nice to meet you all!