FolkMatter

Turn every new prescription into a schedule and reminders.

  1. Take a photo or upload a document

    Of a prescription, hospital discharge papers or a pharmacy label. Printed, handwritten or a PDF.

  2. Review changes

    FolkMatter shows which medications are new, changed or stopped, each beside the line it came from on the paper. You confirm or reject each one.

  3. Reminders for every dose

    Your day is laid out by time, and a reminder goes off when each dose is due. Every document stays with the plan it built.

For a parent, a partner, a child, or yourself.

1 October. Home from hospital with the discharge papers: three medications to take, one to stop. A photo of the papers is read. On a first paper everything is new, and once each medication is checked the plan and its reminders are built. 8 October. The family doctor's handwritten prescription raises Metoprolol to 50 mg, adds Lisinopril and stops Furosemide. FolkMatter reads it and shows only what changed, beside the words on the paper: the stop, and Metoprolol was 25 mg and is now 50 mg. Once each change is confirmed, Today is already updated, with a dose logged as taken, and the Plan tab lists every medication with the time it rings.

Example using fictional information.

Care doesn't stay still.

A hospital stay changes two medications. A week later the family doctor changes one of them again. The pharmacy has one list, the discharge papers have another, and the person keeping track is usually doing it from memory and a pile of paper.

FolkMatter keeps the list current, so you don't have to hold it in your head.

A week later, the doctor changes it again.

Take a photo of the new prescription and FolkMatter compares it with the plan you already have.

Your plan, from the discharge papers

  • Metoprolol

    25 mg, once daily

  • Atorvastatin

    20 mg, at bedtime

  • Furosemide

    20 mg, every morning

The new prescription, Oct 8

What changed

  • Changed

    Metoprolol

    Was 25 mg. Now 50 mg, once daily.

  • New

    Lisinopril

    10 mg, in the evening.

  • Stopped

    Furosemide

    The prescription says to stop it. You decide.

  • Not mentioned

    Atorvastatin

    Not on the new paper, so it stays as it is.

Example using fictional information.

One photo, and the rest follows.

Reminders, set from the paper

Every scheduled medication gets its reminder, at times you can change. When a course ends, its reminders stop.

Today, laid out by time

Every dose sits under the time it is due. Mark it Taken or Skipped, and you can look back at what was taken and when.

The list, and the documents behind it

Every document you add is kept and backed up, and you can see what each one changed. When the doctor asks, share the current list as a PDF.

You stay in control.

FolkMatter never changes the plan on its own. Nothing is added, changed or removed until you confirm it.

Hard to read is marked

When a name or a dose is hard to make out, FolkMatter marks it for you to check against the paper.

You approve each change

There is no button that accepts everything at once, on purpose.

Your papers stay yours

FolkMatter never sells what you add or uses it for advertising, and never shares your email with advertisers. You can delete any document, or everything, at any time.

FolkMatter reads.
You decide.

FolkMatter is a personal organizing tool. It is not a medical record and does not give medical advice.

Why I built FolkMatter

I built FolkMatter after helping manage care for someone close to me through a complicated medical journey.

Medications changed across hospital stays and appointments. There were prescriptions, instructions, alarms and follow-ups, and keeping the current picture straight became a job of its own.

I kept wondering why so much of that work had to live in someone's head.

FolkMatter is my attempt to make that part of caring a little easier.

Be one of the first to use it.

FolkMatter is opening to its first families soon.

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