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

Hey everyone,

As many have already noticed we pushed out some new revisions a few weeks ago as we’ve made a few big as well as small upgrades to SugarStats. While there are various user interface and design changes, the majority of it went on under the hood.

What we’ve launched is a solid foundation for a lot of cool things we’re looking to add and launch in the next few months. After taking so long with this last release, our goal is to make much smaller yet quicker iterations and rollout new features on a more frequent basis to keep things constantly evolving. As we roll those out we’ll be sure to post about them here and on our Twitter feed for notable changes you should know about.

You can get more feature details of various features in our help site: https://sites.google.com:443/a/sugarstats.com/help/

New Features Overview

Here is an overview of some recent changes:

• New, cleaner design throughout the site
• Overall performance and stability improvements as well as many bug fixes
• A new “Dashboard” page to give a quick overview of things
• Completely new and more interactive graphing system based on Adobe Flash 8
• We’ve add an all sugar entries graph as well as avg per day
• The graphs are zoomable (click and drag to zoom in) as well as clickable (On avg per day graphs, click on a data point to go to that day)
• We’ve added a few other new graphs, namely bar charts for tags and carb charting. More to come.
• We’ve replaced the “events” for each entry with a more generic tagging system. You can now customize and have multiple tags for each entry
• For premium users, food and activity input has been changed. You now simply type the name in and if you’ve added it before it’ll auto complete it for you.
• For premium users who track food intake you can now specify how many servings of a food you had
• “Day Notes” has now become the “Diabetes Journal” feature allowing you to have a personalize diabetes blog. You can mark blogs private if you like, all existing day notes have been migrated into the blogs feature and marked private by default.
• We’ve added a “Store” tab for those who want quick access to buying diabetes supplies online
• We’ve added Gravatar.com icon/avatar support

These are some of the big things and again this is only the beginning of a lot more to come. We’ve set a solid foundation to build off of and taken all the wonderful feedback you all have given us over the last year to great a overall better system for everyone.

Sharing, Privacy and the Friends System

A few notes about the changes in TrustedVue and new sharing features/friend system:

• “TrustedVue” has been expanded into a more standardize friend and sharing system. The biggest request to us was the ability to allow you to connect with others and share your stats easier. Now you can add others as friends and now non-diabetes can create accounts much easier. You now only need 1 account and can see the stats/accounts of those who accept you as a friend.
• We’ve also added a new friends tab at the top which lets you find others like you.
• When a friend views your account, they can see your stats, graphs, journals (that aren’t marked private)
• We’ve added sharing/privacy settings so you can set who and who can’t see your account. You can set it to Public, Members Only, Friends Only or Private.
• All existing users by default have their sharing settings set to “Friends Only”.
• All new users by default have their sharing settings set to “Members Only”.
• You can switch your sharing/privacy settings easily in your settings at any time.
• You now have a profile page your friends will see when going to http://manage.sugarstats.com/yourusername.
• You can now also include your bio info about yourself, similar to Facebook/MySpace, on your profile page.
• Friends can also add comments to your profile as well as journal entries.

As noted above we made a lot of changes regarding TrustedVue and sharing your stats with others. While the topic of privacy in a hot one in the Health 2.0 field, we feel in the context of diabetes the community and our diabetic support networks (friends, family and doctors etc) greatly benefit from collaborating with the patient and viewing their diabetic progress and status.

We highly encourage sharing your stats in order to get positive encouragement, motivation and support from others and we’ll be building more and more social networking features into SugarStats over the next few months to help facilitate this.

But we do know to some they may want to keep their account private or share with a select few and we want to respect this. For those people they can easily select from a few different privacy/sharing settings to find the one that best suites them. All existing users before the update have had their sharing settings set to “friends only” which is the same as it was before.

You can find out more about sharing/privacy settings in our help section: https://sites.google.com:443/a/sugarstats.com/help/privacy-and-sharing

Let us know what you think!

We want to know your thoughts and get your feedback. The good, the bad and the ugly as well as any features YOU want to see added in SugarStats. Shoot us an email at support@sugarstats.com

If you notice any issues/errors, see something that looks off or in general have questions please let us know as well.

Updates and Help

Keep an eye out on the blog, our Twitter stream and your email for more detailed updates from us.

You can check out more of these features in details on our help site: https://sites.google.com:443/a/sugarstats.com/help/