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# Health data journaling and visualization with Org Mode and gnuplot
David O'Toole (he/him, <https://emacs.ch/@dto>)

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**Note: The correct name of gnuplot is gnuplot, not GNUplot. It is not GNU software, nor is it licensed under a GNU license. [Details](http://gnuplot.info/faq/index.html#x1-70001.2)**

"GNU Emacs with Org Mode and gnuplot offer a complete Free Software
solution for tracking health information based on a daily data
journal. With Org capture templates and data tables, you can easily
enter facts for each day such as hours of sleep, minutes of exercise,
doses of medication, weight, or even add freeform notes. Through the
use of subjective numeric scores you can track symptoms like stress,
anxiety, or pain. Org Mode's gnuplot support enables you to visualize
the data in order to spot correlations and evaluate trends. The use of
detailed record-keeping and graphing can help you communicate with
health care providers."

A reusable org template will be provided at:
<https://gitlab.com/dto/health-template>



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