Who built this, and why

Why this exists

Caregiving for Parkinson's is mostly tracking — medications at fixed times, how someone is feeling through the day, patterns that only make sense over weeks. When my husband's neurologist asked how the last few months had gone, I found myself answering with a vague "okay, I think?" instead of anything I could actually show.

So I built a tracker for him. Nothing fancy — a way to log medications, note how he was feeling, and walk into an appointment with something coherent instead of a guess. It worked well enough for us that I thought it was worth sharing with other people managing the same thing.

Who's behind it

I'm a registered nurse, with a career spent at hospital bedsides before I retired. I've also been a self-taught web developer as a hobby for a long time — that combination is what made a project like this possible to build alone.

PD Tracker is a personal, independent project — not a startup, not a company product, and not affiliated with any hospital, pharmaceutical company, or patient organization. It's published under the name Byte Communications, which is simply how I publish the small number of sites I build and maintain.

Why it's built the way it is

The privacy design — no accounts, no server, everything kept on your own device — isn't a marketing angle. It's a direct result of being a nurse before being a developer. I didn't want to be in a position of holding other people's health information, and I didn't want to ask anyone to trust a stranger's server with their medication list. Keeping everything local sidesteps that entirely: there's nothing here for me, or anyone else, to see.

See the Privacy policy for exactly what that means in practice, and the Manual for how to actually use the app day to day.

Get in touch

Found a bug, have a suggestion, or just want to say the app helped? Use the contact form — it goes straight to me.