Symptom, food and gut tracker
Antibiotics wrecked my gut last fall. I built a free tracker because the Notes app wasn't cutting it.
Log food, symptoms, sleep and stress in under a minute a day. Two and a half thousand foods, so you log what you actually ate instead of the nearest match. After a couple of weeks it starts comparing your worse days against what came before them.
- Start with no account. Your first 3 days need nothing but the page you are on.
- See your week at a glance. Which days were worse, and by how much.
- Take a real record to your doctor. Thirty days beats a recollection.
Logging is free and stays free. No account for your first 3 days, then a free account keeps it. There is a paid report later, from $19 USD, if you ever want the deeper analysis. You never have to buy it.
The actual logging screen. Entries are made up, because a real one is somebody's health record.
What it gives you back
After a week or twoA week you can see
Instead of "it has been bad lately", a picture of which days were worse and by how much. Memory flattens a bad fortnight into one grey blur. A record does not.
Something to take to a doctor
Ten minutes in an appointment goes further with thirty days of entries than with a recollection. You can print this or read it straight off your phone.
Whether sleep and stress move with it
Both are recorded beside your symptoms, so you can see whether your worst days follow a short night or a hard week. That is difficult to judge from inside one.
Whether a change did anything
Drop something for a fortnight and the record either shifts or it does not. A clear no is worth as much as a yes, and it saves you cutting out food you never needed to.
What it will not do is tell you what caused anything. It reports what you wrote down, and points at what is worth testing properly.
What you fill in
Four questionsHow the symptoms felt
A short list, each one rated None, Mild, Moderate or Severe. Tapping, not typing.
What you ate
Foods come from a set list rather than a text box, so what you tick on Monday means the same thing on Friday.
Sleep and stress
Two more taps, recorded next to the rest, so you can look at them together.
Anything worth remembering
One optional line. Travel, a new supplement, a bad night, a good one.
One entry a day. You can change today's as often as you like.
What happens to what you write
You can log for 3 days without an account. Until you add an email, nothing in your log names you, and the log is held by a cookie on this browser, so clearing your cookies loses it.
Adding an email after that keeps the log and lets it open on your phone as well.
These are health notes and they are treated as such. They are not sold. Nothing goes to anyone outside the services that run this site, and those are named on the privacy page.
Logging and your weekly picture are free. If a paid report is added later, nothing you have already logged moves behind it.
Begin today's log, or sign in if you already have one.