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[Feature Request] Add a Notes Section for Each Medication
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm unfortunately dealing with gout, and one of the commonly used medications is colchicine. The dosage for colchicine varies significantly between daily maintenance and acute flare-ups (e.g., one tablet per day versus three tablets per day). Currently, the system allows us to add "Additional Instructions" to each medication reminder. However, in my case, I need to create separate reminders for different situations, and copying the same detailed information (e.g., usage) into each reminder can be redundant. It would be more efficient to have a dedicated Notes section at the medication level, where general information—such as usage guidelines, side effects, and official leaflet content—can be stored and referenced as needed.
Describe the solution you'd like Add a Notes field to each medication, so users can record general reference information independent of individual reminders.
Thank you so much for your hard work on this app. It has helped me get through many difficult times with my health, and I truly appreciate the care and thought that went into its design.
I understand your use case. One question regarding how to implement it: Would it be your idea that the content of the notes field is then also displayed in the notification? Because I think you want to have this information at hand when you actually take the medification, right? Or would you prefer having a button that opens this as a popup? Or would it be preferable to go back to the app?
Thank you so much for taking the time to consider my case!
Personally, I believe it’s best to keep notifications concise, and I think the current implementation already does a great job in that regard.
What I’m hoping for is simply to have a Notes field shown within the medication view screen (as seen in 3.png), so I can quickly refer to key information when adjusting reminders.
To further clarify the use case: I would typically use the Notes field to record information like:
If not during an acute flare-up: SID;
If during an acute flare-up: TID.
Discontinue if significant side effects occur.
Because of this, I hope the Notes field can support multi-line text input.
Other display options, like showing it as a pop-up, could certainly be useful as well—but I feel they can be considered separately in the future, if there's broader interest.
Thanks again for your thoughtful and considerate reply!
Thinking of trying my hand at this, though I don't know if the UI should be implemented as a fragment or a dialog ^^;
Oh wait, this was actually implemented in v1.18.0, I did not link it properly to the PR and thus it was not auto closed.
It would have been a nice one to get started with implementing features of the app though, I will check and mark some of the other issues as "good first issue".
I can't seem to find where the notes are? ^^;
My fault, I mixed this one up with another issue. So yes, you can start working on this one.
I would have thought of a dialog that opens when a button is pressed, maybe next to the medication name editor field? But if you have a better idea, go ahead!
Please also add an Android test for this new feature and bump the version to v1.19.0, since this will be a change to the database as well.
I want to add an icon for notes (e.g. Assignment in Material Icons), but I faced an unexpected problem: I don't know what icon set you've used, and I want to use the same one for consistency's sake ^^;