Appa takes his tablets in Coimbatore. You see it in Bengaluru.
வணக்கம், அப்பா
Friday, 19 September
Next tablet · அடுத்தது8:30 am
Metformin
500 mg · one white tablet
After breakfastகாலை உணவுக்குப் பிறகு Remind me in 15 minutes
Appa & Amma
Friday 19 Sep · R.S. Puram, Coimbatore
3 of 6 doses taken1 needs you
BothAppaAmma
6:30
Thyroxine 50 mcgAmma
Taken · 6:34 am
8:30
Metformin 500 mgAppa
Taken · 8:41 am
9:00
Amlodipine 5 mg
Appa hasn’t tapped Taken. We reminded him at 9:00 and 9:30.
1:30
Calcium + D3Amma
Taken late · 2:26 pm
8:30
Metformin 500 mgAppa
Due · after dinner
Every night at 9:10, Priya calls Coimbatore to ask one question.
AAppa
Mobile · Coimbatore · 04:12
Appa, did you take the BP tablet today?
ஆமா மா… the small pink one, I think. Or was that yesterday?
365 kmbetween Priya’s desk in Whitefield and Appa’s pill box in R.S. Puram. The call is all she has to go on.
வணக்கம், அப்பா
Friday, 19 September
Next tablet · அடுத்தது8:30 am
Metformin
500 mg · one white tablet
After breakfastகாலை உணவுக்குப் பிறகு Remind me in 15 minutes
Big enough to read without his glasses.
Appa’s phone shows one thing: the next tablet.
The tablet drawn as it looks in his strip
One button, in Tamil and English
Appa & Amma
Friday 19 Sep · R.S. Puram, Coimbatore
3 of 6 doses taken1 needs you
BothAppaAmma
6:30
Thyroxine 50 mcgAmma
Taken · 6:34 am
8:30
Metformin 500 mgAppa
Taken · 8:41 am
9:00
Amlodipine 5 mg
Appa hasn’t tapped Taken. We reminded him at 9:00 and 9:30.
1:30
Calcium + D3Amma
Taken late · 2:26 pm
8:30
Metformin 500 mgAppa
Due · after dinner
Priya sees both parents’ day, in one calm list.
Amlodipine 5 mg
Appa hasn’t tapped Taken. We reminded him at 9:00 and 9:30.
If Appa doesn’t tap Taken within an hour, Priya gets the alert, with his number one tap away.
TakenTaken lateMissed
Appa · 3 medicinesAmma · 2
Refill by Thu, 25 Sep
Amlodipine 5 mg
6 tablets left
Sri Ganapathy Medicals delivers to Appa by 6 pm
Stock at home
Metformin 500 mg19 days
38 left
Atorvastatin 10 mg21 days
21 left
Dr. Kavitha · Diabetologist
Carry fasting sugar report
Know the strip is running low before Appa does.
Reorder from the chemist on his street, ₹84
Dr. Kavitha’s visit, with the report to carry
96%
One page a week for Dr. Kavitha: doses, BP, sugar. Shared on WhatsApp in one tap.
Appa’s week
Fri 12 – Thu 18 September
27 of 28 doses
Missed Amlodipine on Monday. Two taken over an hour late.
Up from 89% last week
FSSMTWTMetformin, am
Amlodipine
Metformin, pm
Atorvastatin
BP, logged 7 timesavg 135/83 135/83
Appa’s average BP this week, logged seven times from his wrist cuff.
118
Fasting sugar in mg/dL on Tuesday, down from 131 in August.
One tablet. One button. Nothing else to read.
Next tablet · அடுத்தது8:30 am
Metformin
500 mg · one white tablet
After breakfastகாலை உணவுக்குப் பிறகு 46px drug name. Tablet shown at twice its real size, with the score line and the code on it.
The same tablet at the size he holds it Taken, 8:41பிரியாவுக்குத் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டது 112px tall, the whole width of his thumb. After a tap, it tells him Priya knows.
Mathiraiமாத்திரை
Appa taps once. Priya knows.
Metformin 500 mg
After breakfast · காலை உணவுக்குப் பிறகு
One tablet, one button — his whole phone. 365 km away in Bengaluru, Priya sees the tap.
A Goat Scale conceptMathiraiமாத்திரைAppa’s week · R.S. Puram, Coimbatore
One week, dose by dose.
Twenty-eight doses were due between Friday 12 and Thursday 18 September.
TakenTaken lateMissed
Metformin, am
Amlodipine
Metformin, pm
Atorvastatin
Monday’s Amlodipine is the one he missed. Two reminders at 9:00 and 9:30, then Priya rang him.
27 of 28 doses
Up from 89% last week
BP, logged 7 timesavg 135/83 One page a week for Dr. Kavitha, shared on WhatsApp.
A Goat Scale conceptMathirai, the system
Aa
Newsreader, 400–600 · names and headlines
Aa 8:30 am
Figtree, 400–700 · everything read at arm’s length
அ ஆ மாத்திரை
Noto Sans Tamil · every parent-facing line
Amlodipine 5 mg
Appa hasn’t tapped Taken. We reminded him at 9:00 and 9:30.
Mathirai · medicine care for parents, set up from another cityDesigned by Goat Scale