H · E · S · E · D
/ˈhɛ.sɛd/  ·  Hebrew  ·  loving-kindness

A daily ledger for whoever you tend to.

What hesed means

I studied this word for a semester in 9th grade and it never left me. Hesed is the kind of love that gets up early and makes the coffee. The kind a daughter does when she keeps her mother's pills sorted for ten years. The kind a husband does when he stays through the diagnosis. The kind, sometimes, that you keep for yourself.

Not pity. Not charity. Hesed flows across, between people bound to each other — like Ruth, who refused to leave her widowed mother-in-law. The person you tend to is not less than you. They are the one you keep covenant with.

Why I built this

My grandmother sorts my grandfather's twenty-five supplements at the kitchen counter. She keeps a paper chart, hand-numbered, taped inside the cabinet. Each bottle has a Sharpie label that matches a row. Morning. Midday. Evening.

I watched her and realized she was doing hesed. It looked like work, but it was love.

I built her a version of the chart that does the math. His prescriptions stopped running out at midnight. Friends started asking. So I made one anyone can keep.

What it does

Tracks every bottle for the person you're tending to — name, brand, dose, count. Tells you what's about to run out in time to call the pharmacy. Logs every dose, so a doctor can see what actually happened. An assistant reads what the doctor said and proposes the update; you decide before anything changes. One account, several people — keep a hesed for a parent, a partner, a child, or yourself.

Begin

Free during the pilot. Sign in with your email. Add the first bottle. The rest follows.

Begin a hesed