Diabetes Life Hacks - DBlogWeek Day 5
Friday, May 16, 2014 at 1:37PM Share the (non-medical) tips and tricks that help you in the day-to-day management of diabetes. Tell us everything from clothing modifications, serving size/carb counting tricks to the tried and true Dexcom-in-a-glass trick or the “secret” to turning on a Medtronic pump’s backlight when not on the home-screen (scroll to the bottom of this post). Please remember to give non-medical advice only! (Thank you Rachel of Probably Rachel and Kelley of Below Seven for this topic suggestion.)
This prompt seemed like it would be easy for me to write about but so far this has been the toughest to write about. I really cannot think of one diabetes life hack I do or came up with. I am pretty sugar free vanilla I guess when it comes to my diabeetus.
There is one little hack but it is more about my DOC life. It's how I read blogs. Yeah, this will work.
So, I use a reader called The Old Reader and the reason why is because it allows me to Spritz the posts in my reader.
If you don't know what Spritz is I would ask you to check it out but clicking on this link and checking out the demo at the top of the page. Anyhow, with Spritz and The Old Reader I can read blog posts a lot faster than before! Like way Way WAY faster!
I sound like a salesman but I am just a huge fan. Anyhow, this was kind of a meh post for me to end the week on but thankfully DBlogWeek continues through the weekend so I have chance to go out with a bang!
Reader Comments (5)
Whoa, that's pretty cool. And a hack that helps us stay more connected with the DOC by reading more blogs sounds like a very important Diabetes Life Hack to me!!
Huh, I never thought of that -- very interesting! Probably depends on a person's reading style, but how awesome is it to have the kind of tech we do these days to help us keep best in touch with social media and online reading. (Boy, I sound kind of like a geezer in writing that...). Thanks for the hack, G!
Thanks for sharing those, I'll have to check them out!
I heard about Spritz recently but I didn't even consider applying it to blog reading. That would definitely help the unread post count in my poor reader.
Woah. I tried it, and there's no possible way I can read that way. I must be broken, but thanks for the post! :)