APPteczka: medicine reminders

No more wondering “have I taken my tablet yet?” APPteczka keeps your home medicine cabinet in order for you: it reminds you of every dose, keeps an eye on stock and expiry dates and recognizes a medication from the code on its box. SCAN INSTEAD OF TYPING Scan the code on the box and the app fills in the name, strength and pharmaceutical form from the public medicines database of the country set for your cabinet: in Italy, AIFA open data (the “bollino” code or the Data Matrix code); in Poland, the Register of Medicinal Products. When the box has a Data Matrix code, the app also reads the expiry date. Food supplements are looked up by barcode in Open Food Facts. Or just start typing a name. ON-TIME REMINDERS The notification arrives at the time you set, and you can mark the dose as taken straight from it. If you don’t, a second reminder follows an hour later. Reminders are scheduled by…