Ask HN: Ive quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?
Summary
A Hacker News post where a 20-year-old college student with seronegative spondyloarthropathy asks what tracking system works for illness, sharing experiences with paper journals, Google Sheets, and emerging AI-assisted approaches. The thread features responses about lightweight, automated logging, bespoke LLM-based solutions, and considerations for motivation, output usefulness, and effort required. It highlights the ongoing search for a practical, scalable method to track health data over time.