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Hi everyone, I built an app to find patterns

cogable

cogable

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Hello everyone,

I'm Dorothy, and I'm joining this community with a specific hope. I've been a caregiver for a traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor for the past six years—and I still am today.

It's a journey that has been long and arduous. The hardest part has been figuring out what helps and what harms her, especially when she is unable to communicate these things to me. I started tracking everything on paper and was stunned when I saw patterns that genuinely helped her. I built the Cogable app to make that process easier and more effective for myself and others.

It helps track daily patterns—moods, symptoms, sleep, activities, and sensory input—to visually connect the dots that are impossible to see when you're in the middle of it all.

I'm sharing it here because I see similarities in the challenges some autistic individuals face: the experience of sensory overload, the frustration when communication fails, and the need to understand personal triggers and patterns.

Cogable isn't a cure or a therapy. It's just a practical tool. There is a completely free plan you can use forever (no trial, no credit card) to see if it helps you find clarity in your own patterns.

If you're curious, you can check it out here: Cogable

I would be incredibly grateful for your perspective and feedback if you do.

Thank you for your time, and I look forward to learning from this community.

Best,
Dorothy
 
Sounds very intriguing. Are you on the autism spectrum? What a great idea to design an app as such. Are you able to use this with your client?
 
cogable said:
It helps track daily patterns—moods, symptoms, sleep, activities, and sensory input—to visually connect the dots that are impossible to see when you're in the middle of it all.
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I think it's a great idea and would be a fantastic tool for the parents of teenagers regardless of whether or not they're autistic. What you say about not being able to see when you're caught up in the middle of it all is very true in most situations. Can't see the forest through the trees.

I've always prided myself on my pattern spotting abilities and anomalies in patterns especially stand out to me, this formed a big part of much of my success in life. Yet when it came to noticing patterns in my own behaviour it took more than 40 years and a full burn out before I started looking at myself properly in an objective way.
 
I love the idea of such tool as a caregiver. My mother's mind is not getting sharper, and I'm afraid that there will be a day when I have to start dealing with any kind of dementia with my own limited capabilities to recognize other people's (and my own) emotions and the reasons to them.

As a tool for analyzing myself:

I don't know how good my pattern recognition really is, but while I do see patterns in numbers and graphs full of random noise, statistical tools help a lot with qualifying and confirming the patterns. A real correlation is surprisingly hard to determine by gut-feeling, especially when the human mind is susceptible to apophenia (seeing patterns when there are none).

However, my biggest issue would be recognizing inputs for the app. People around me are often ones to tell me when I am being cheery, moody, or an arsehole (okay, last one I can most of time recognize myself). They would benefit from the app more than I would.
 
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hello cogable ...your app is will require additional input by the user, that often ,in many day to day situations with disabled people. Are sometimes already all encompassing.
After looking at the advert must admit , I do like the pattern recognition parts . Obviously
giving greater insight for the carer . Am hoping this works well for your future ipo or otherwise. I had not been aware of the various levels of the service your business seems to be willing to provide, I do certainly feel it maybe of benefit to many people potentially 👍
 
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