I bet this is an iPhone app by now

[khalinche]

Google Calendar should really have a widget that adds an automatically generated, but customisable, menstrual cycle day-tracker. It could have a 28-day overlay counter for those of us who take hormonal contraception or who always have dead-on clockwork 28-day cycles, and a one-click application for everyone else where we could select Day 1 and it

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[ultraruby]

I was thinking this just the other day! It should totally exist as an iphone app. There's online sites that do it but an app where I could press a 'gosh, I'm on!' button and then a 'finished!' one and it'd work out cycles and fertility etc from there would be BRILLIANT.

[eastlondongirl]

+1! it would be so useful. who's good with code stuff?

[eastlondongirl]

and lo, there is one. search for "free menstrual calendar" in the app store ..

[ultraruby]

Oooh hooray! I hope it comes with sexytime alerts! And a grump button!

[enchochada]

If you search for 'menstrual calendar' there are a few online - here's one - I also found a company that I posted a link to the Loos about, they track your cycle and then send you the sanitary products you'll need, and a chocolate!

[khalinche]

Ooh, handy! But at the risk of sounding ungrateful and quibbly, why are all these sites so PINK? The one robert_jones links to below is also all pink and soft. What do soft pastel tones have to do with menstruation? Grrr. I want a nice clean non-coloured, non-fussy interface like Google has.

[robert_jones]

Some people like My Cycle, but as far as I can see it doesn't exist as an iPhone app, nor is it compatible with Google calendar.

[khalinche]

It looks useful and all, but I am put off by it being explicitly aimed at women who are trying to conceive, while I am trying to not conceive, among other reasons. Perhaps we could invert their idea a la Deadjournal, and have a site that sent out text alerts going, 'Looks like you're ovulating, kiddo! No knocking boots for you today!'

[robert_jones]

I know, but it is also used by women who are trying not to conceive!

[marnanel]

I have no idea how to write iPhone apps, but I could probably write it for the N900.

[khalinche]

That would be most triumphant!

[ruthi]

Alsome!

[simont]

I would not have necessarily made this a public post without having read that.

This post looks friends-locked to me, or am I confused?

[khalinche]

I'm about to edit it, I was just distracted by discussing the idea with a houseguest who immediately said, 'YES! I want one of them!'.

Is this something you could write?

[simont]

Probably not me, I'm afraid; I know nothing about Google Calendar, or iPhone, or any environment that might be a plausible replacement for either one.

(I know precious little about menstruation too, come to think of it :-) though your description makes it sound as if the relevant facts about that can be specified pretty concisely.)

[khalinche]

I think there's both a lot and a little to know about menstruation. The basic facts can be summed up as: most women between the ages of 11ish and 45 ish bleed from their cunt for a few days of every month. The end. As to how it affects different people, cycle length and variability thereof, how it affects you physically and psychologically, what the best way to get blood out of clothes is, there's really no upper limit to the diversity of people's experience and new things to learn. But if you don't actually menstruate, you can probably get through life OK with the former summary.