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About this tool
Lay out morning, noon, evening and night compartments for all seven days, with tablet counts per compartment and per week.
This builder turns a medicine list into the 7 x 4 grid a standard weekly pill organiser uses — morning, noon, evening and night for each of the seven days — and counts the tablets that belong in every compartment. Give each medicine its tablets per dose, the compartments it goes in and the days it is taken; the tool works out tablets per week for each medicine, the total for the whole box, and flags any compartment that would hold more tablets than your box physically fits. It is a counting and layout aid to use alongside your prescription, not a dosing decision.
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Add your input to the workspace.
Adjust the options until the result looks right.
Copy or download the output and put it to work.
All 28 compartments laid out so nothing is filled from memory.
Tablets per medicine per week, so you know if the strip will last.
Warns when one compartment holds more tablets than the box can take.
They correspond to the four standard dosing times prescriptions use: morning (mane), noon (meridie), evening (vespere) and night (nocte). A once-daily medicine uses one, a twice-daily (BD) medicine usually uses morning and night, three times daily (TDS) uses morning, noon and night, and four times daily (QDS) uses all four.
Fourteen, if it is one tablet each time every day: 2 doses x 7 days x 1 tablet. Two tablets per dose makes it 28. The tool does this for every medicine so you can check the strip or bottle has enough before you start filling the box.
No. Some tablets and capsules need to stay in their original blister or bottle to stay dry and out of light, dispersible and effervescent forms degrade quickly once out, and some products are dispensed in packs that must not be split. Ask your pharmacist which of your medicines are safe to decant before you fill an organiser.
One week at a time is the usual practice, which is what the box is designed for and what keeps the layout matching the current prescription. Refill on the same day each week, and redo the layout whenever a dose changes rather than editing the box mid-week.