I’m excited about the reaction to Solids. I really do enjoy working on Trixie Tracker and it’s always satisfying to add a new feature that gets such a strong response.
I want to point out that Solids Telemetry came about 18 months too late for Jenn and I to use with Trixie. As a result, I developed it based on the memory of what our needs were at the time. If I’ve missed (or forgotten) some important issue, I definitely want to hear about it. User feedback is very much appreciated!
Here’s a couple of thoughts about Solids:
1) Why aren’t there any measurements?
It was too hard to quantify the amount of a given type of food. Take bananas for example. Any of the following measurements would make sense:
- a jar
- a few slices
- half a banana
- 4 ounces
- 2 spoonfuls
- 1/4 cup
- a bowl
- 55 grams
- a taste, etc
I couldn’t figure out a way to quantify these various units so that a daily total (of all foods) could be added up. Therefore I decided to just leave out amounts completely.
However, someone asked yesterday about maybe just limiting the units to jars (since most folks start with jars of baby food), and listing the total amount (of jars) per meal. TT could then add up jars per day. Another possibility would be to provide space to write in the quantity per food item (i.e. “a few spoonfuls” or ”55 grams”) but have it simply be a description — TT would not add the quantities up.
Both of these are possible, but I’m not going to make any changes yet. I’d like to see how people use the program first. The golden rule is that if enough users ask for a certain feature, it will probably eventually get added in 
2) Integrating all food (Nursing, Bottles, Solids)
I know there are now three different telemetry that keep track of sustenance. And I know that they should hook together somehow so that you can see how nursing relates to bottles relates solids (relates to sleep etc). I’m not totally sure how to address this, but it’s something I have been thinking about. I think the eventual answer is going to be some kind of redesign of the TT home page that will be more flexible and can assemble various telemetry into one daily chart.
Thanks again for everyone’s help! I’m definitely interested in learning how this Telemetry works out. I would have liked to have it when Trixie was little because we had an egg problem. We’re confident now that it’s only a sensitivity and not an allergy, but it took us a while to come to that conclusion (partly because I didn’t keep any records!).