Abhinav Tushar likes to curate what he calls macro health data. That means things like ailments, aches and pains, and other symptoms one might want to mention to the doctor during an appointment. After researching the currently available apps, he realized there was nothing that met his needs so he decided to roll his own. The result is Harp, an Android app that should soon be available on the Play Store. It’s also available for free on Fdroid. You can also checkout the source at Sourcehut. Finally, you can find out more about Harp here.
Like my favorite app Journelly, Tushar decided to keep his data in Org Mode. That, of course, brings the immediate benefit of making the data viewable and editable in Emacs or any other editor for that matter. It’s one of the reasons I’m so fond of Journelly. A couple more apps like these and we could see Org markup evolve into a sort of universal app data storage language.
Right now, only an Android version of Harp exists but his near term plans include an iOS version. That good news for those of us in the Apple camp. The main difficulty appears to be navigating the Apple App Store submission maze, which is well known for its opaque rules.
Take a look at Tushar’s post for some more of his short term goals. It looks like a handy app—and, of course, one that keeps its data in Org mode—so it’s definitely worth trying out. I’ll probably give it a try when the iOS version appears and will let you know what I think of it then.