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When a parent needs to log oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, and video ahead of a doctor's visit, the baby-tracking category has nothing for him — and neither does the medical app world. This episode digs into the four requirements of a true personal tracking framework (user-defined schema, media capture, periodic reminders, clean export), why no shipped Android app combines all four, and the fascinating research trail behind it: OmniTrack, a peer-reviewed 2017 self-tracking framework that solved exactly this problem and then quietly died, Track and Graph, the open-source power tool that gets 80% of the way there, and Text2Schema, a 2026 research effort formalizing natural-language-to-database schema generation. The pieces all exist. Nobody has assembled them. Episode #457891 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/457891