Chronic illness has already stolen enough of your life. It doesn’t need your social calendar too.

This is Plan-ISH, my submission for the @Base44 Challenge on @Contra. A FREE app for people with an invisible chronic illness who are sick of choosing between having a life and spending the next week recovering from it. I built it with Base44, step by step: design, planner, automations and voice.

I’m living this myself. I know what it’s like to want to do something completely normal, like a dinner, a wedding or Christmas, and first have to calculate whether my body can handle it. Sometimes you just stop making plans. Not because you don’t want to go, but because the aftermath feels like too much.

Sometimes I just want to go to a bloody dinner and have a good time. So I built Plan-ISH.

What it does: ➔ Plans the days before, the event itself and your recovery afterwards, around the energy you actually have ➔ Helps you ask for what you need, and writes the awkward message to the host ➔ Works with your voice, because some days typing is an Olympic sport ➔ Turns your symptoms into one clear page for your doctor ➔ Sends reminders and check-ins on its own ➔ Has a low-light mode for migraine days, and comebacks for every “but you don’t look sick”

Will it guarantee you won’t have a flare-up? Absolutely f*cking not. But it can help you prepare better, respect your limits and actually enjoy the things you love.

We deserve more than managing our illnesses. We deserve to live.