Entry event tagging really helps keep things in context when inputting your stats. When you tag entries it helps then aggregate trends and stats for that tag over time. You can then find out trends such as what your average blood sugar was before and after breakfast for example.

In order to encourage entry tagging and make it easier, we’ve recently pushed out a few small new feature updates. Previously you had to manually type in your tag for each entry with the added benefit of it auto-completing the tag name based on what you were typing.

Top Tags Pop-up Box

We’ve added to this and now offer a pop-up box with your top 20 tags so you can easily click on the tag you want without having to touch the keyboard.

All you have to do is click on the tag input text-field and it will pop up. If you don’t want to select an existing tag and would rather enter a new one just start typing.

This makes it easy for you to have quick access to the tags you use the most (i.e: “Before Breakfast”, “After Dinner”, “High Sugar” etc).

Pop-up design credit and inspiration has to go to the Freckle team, they did a great job.

Auto-Tagging

Manual tagging is great, but what if you have a semi-routine schedule or habit? Such as always eating breakfast between 6am-8am, Exercising after work between 5pm-7pm or eating lunch late at 2pm-3pm?

Well now you can add auto-tagging rules to automatically tag your entries based specifically off some of these common routines in your schedule. Tags will be automatically attached to entries which match your rules. Right now the rules are based on time and entry type, but we’re hoping to expand it in the future to be able to match more criteria.

You can access your Auto-Tagging list in your settings (http://manage.sugarstats.com/auto_taggings) and there is even an example for you to create your own rules from. So now anytime you add an entry, via the web or mobile, if it matches any of your existing auto-tagging rules those tags will be added to that entry.

Using both the new tag pop-up box and the auto-tagging functionality is optional, so if you want to keep using the previous methods you’re welcome to do so.

Why Tag Entries?

Tagging is important to keep things in context. So if you add your tags to all your sugar entries for example, you can then go to your Last 30 Days page and see this:

These are just the first in a number of future tag enhancements we’re planning and we will be adding more and more new features based on your tags.

We hope you like it and that this makes tagging entries easier overall. If you have any suggestion, feedback or notice bugs feel free to let us know: support@sugarstats.com

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 5th, 2009 at 2:02 pm and is filed under Glucose Management, SugarStats Features.
Tags: Auto-Tagging, Diabetes Trends, Diabetic Trends, New Features, Tag Pop-up, Tagging.
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