My Certified Alexa Skills

In my last post just a few days ago I noted that I hadn’t posted for many months before that.  I have been quite busy since January focusing on developing new Alexa Skills and helping several start-up companies build healthcare & non-healthcare applications with a voice component.  I wanted to take this opportunity to post an updated table with all my 21 Alexa Skills, their descriptions, and Quick Links to them in the Alexa App on an Echo/Alexa device user’s smartphone.  Just click on the link of any of the listed Skills to check it out.   In case you don’t use Alexa, I should explain what a Skill is.  Very simply, the term “Skill” is the name Amazon has given to the applications that work with their Echo & Alexa devices.

If I were to categorize my Skills, most of them would fall into one of the following three categories:

• Humor
• Organizational
• Health & Wellness

Let me mention a few of them:

In the Humor category, Our Little Secret, provides a comical peek into what you might be saying in your home.  In it, a fictional brother & sister with psychic abilities give Secrets and Deeper Thoughts.  All the responses are entirely fictitious, but it makes you wonder what you would hear if “walls could talk!”  While the Secrets are free, the user must pay a low, one-time fee to hear the Deeper Thoughts.  Another humorous Skill is Wine Jester in which Alexa gives comical reviews of any wine you may place before her.

An example of Organizational Skills is Your Expert Log which enables the user to log experts that they may have heard about in different professions, such as, physicians, handymen, and others for retrieval later. My Favs allows the user to log their favorite meals and restaurants to be retrieved randomly. Conference Contact Helper was created after I attended a recent conference to help track the contacts made at conferences and the associated to-do list items.

Most of my certified Skills fall into the category of Health & Wellness. These first two were developed to help us focus on the goodness in our world and help improve one’s psychological health.  Kindness Counts lets the user record kindnesses for which they are the doer, recipient, or witness.  Gratitude Log lets the user log three of their blessings at a time.  After they have logged several sets, they can ask Alexa to play three randomized blessings at a time.  Healthy Text Scheduler allows the user to schedule text messages about healthy eating to help them form healthier behaviors surrounding their nutritional behaviors.  Track My Dose was designed to help individuals manage as-needed medications, so they know when to take the next dose.  They can even schedule reminders at the time the next dose can be taken.  Finally, Symptom Helper helps the user organize the symptoms they wish to discuss with their healthcare provider before an upcoming visit.  They answer several questions posed by Alexa, and she organizes that information into a concise statement that can be entered into a custom list on their Alexa App that can be shared with the clinician.

For Your Health – Dr. Bob

Click the link below to go to a table of my Alexa Skills or click the Download button on the right to download its PDF file: