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Overview of Features

Asthma Logbook X helps you to track diabetes related information. By using a single Logbook window, it is quick to add, edit and review an event. Plus the Logbook Table can be quickly sorted and ordered to show the event data the way you want.

Start by configuring the User Settings: the default values for peak flow units (currently only L/min), peak flow levels, preferred inhalers and medicine, and time periods are used to speed data entry and make the reports more meaningful.

Next record and manage your asthma events: add new events preset with default values, select an event in the Logbook Table and edit it, or select on or more events for deletion: though you will get a chance to cancel the delete request.

Asthma Logbook X saves its database to disk whenever the events in the Logbook Table are modified, and it retains snapshots of the last 5 database saves: so you can keep Asthma Logbook X up and running for as long as you like.

If you have existing data you can import it. Currently support formats are:

• Asthma Logbook X export files

Backing up or archiving events to a text file is easily achieved through the Export function. You can remove old events that are no longer useful, but keep them for reference, and import them again at a later date.

No logbook would be useful without having a way to present the events in a meaningful way. Asthma Logbook X provides 5 different report formats that graph the peak flow events, provide listings of events by time and split into time period, display a traditional logbook, and extract events that record only free text notes (useful for recording Clinic notes).

What is an 'event'?

An event is a collection of information that is recorded together. It enables you to record the following information under the same date and time stamp:

1. Time period within the day
   
2. Peak flow reading
   
3. Inhaler puffs/units administered: allowing for two inhalers to be recorded separately
   
4. Medicines taken
   
5. Event name from a user defined list of event types
   
6. Free text notes
   
7. Flag important events

A row in the Logbook Table is an event.

Events will be referred to throughout this User Guide.

Automatic snapshots and backup

The data is the most important part of the logbook; Asthma Logbook X retains a full copies of logbook over the last 5 edits. Additionally, when saving logbook edits a backup of the data will be made if the previous backup was over 24 hours ago.

See Technical Notes for more details.

Other features

Asthma Logbook X enables you to record important information too: notes, next appointment dates, supplies and re-order dates, and contacts can be recorded in one place. If you want, you can then add the dates as alerts into iCal [a logbook calendar will be created in iCal for these alerts] with just a single click of a button, or initiate emails to contacts using your default email application.

Mac OS X has powerful, yet simple, scheduling and contact management support in its included iCal and Address Book applications, and they can be quickly launched from within Asthma Logbook X.