Kate

Co-founder of Notice

Kate is the co-founder of Notice and the reason it exists. She spent six years with symptoms nobody connected: headaches, broken sleep, hot flashes, anxiety that arrived from nowhere. Then she spent about six months recording them by hand, in a notebook her doctor could not read.

Notice is the tool she wanted in that appointment. She and her husband Erik built it together, and she is the voice of it. When a Notice article is written in the first person, that person is Kate, and the experience in it is her own.

What she writes about

The parts of perimenopause nobody warns you about, and the practical problem underneath them: symptoms arrive scattered across months, memory is not a record, and ten minutes at a well woman exam is not long enough to reconstruct a year. She writes about what is worth tracking, what a doctor can actually use, and how to walk into a visit better equipped.

What she is not

Kate is not a doctor, a nurse, or any kind of clinician, and nothing she writes is medical advice or a diagnosis. What she offers is lived experience and a practical method for keeping a record. Only a provider can say what is behind your symptoms. Notice produces a record you can bring to that conversation; it does not interpret it for you.

Notice

Notice is a private perimenopause and cycle tracker for iPhone. All the analysis happens on your device, and we never see your health information. It is free to download on the App Store, and there is more about it on the Notice page.

Her writing is on the Notice blog.