Activities
From the app’s English Help & Guide · Reference release 1.0.33
What are activities?
Activities let you track what you managed each day — showering, cooking, walking, working, and more. It’s a record of what you accomplished, not a to-do list.
Getting started
Turn on Activities in More › Tracking. When you enable it, Tended creates a starter list based on your conditions. Use Manage in the same Activities row to customise the list.
Logging activities
When creating a journal entry, tap Activities to open the picker. Activities are grouped by category, so long lists stay easier to scan. Check off what you managed, then save. Activities carry forward from yesterday if you have carry forward enabled.
Insights
The What You Managed insight shows your one-month activity summary and trend for free. With Tended+, it also compares individual symptoms on the same day and next day, your next-day rating, and factors linked with doing more or less.
Categories and order
Activities are automatically grouped by category. In Add/Edit Activity, type any category name, or choose an existing category from the checked list. Manual reordering is not shown because category grouping keeps the list stable and predictable.
How activities affect you
With Tended+, select an activity to compare individual symptoms on the same day and the day after. For example, “Fatigue averages 5.2, usually 7.1” means fatigue was lower in those records, not that the activity caused the change. A day rating summary compares how you felt the next day.
Activity costs
Each activity has an energy cost used by Today’s budget: Light (0.5 spoons), Moderate (1.0), Heavy (2.0), or Very Heavy (3.0). Restorative activities like rest or meditation can have a negative cost so they add spoons back. Open Energy Pacing › Activity Costs to review or override any of them — your choice always wins over Tended’s learned default.
Positive framing
Tended only shows what you accomplished, never what you didn’t. There are no unchecked items in summaries and no failure language.
Record an activity
Keep a useful record of an activity.
If a field you want is hidden, enable it in More > Tracking. Only turn on what you want to use.
Comfortable shoes and a water bottle beside an open journal.
Record an activity: steps
- Check the date The guide opens a new journal entry. Check its date and time before adding details. You can also use this guide while editing an existing entry.
- Choose the activity Open Activities and select what you did. Choose or create a label that you can recognise later.
- Describe the context Add a reflection if duration, breaks or the setting matter. This log records your experience; it does not prescribe an activity target.
- Save your entry Return to the entry and tap Save. Wait for it to close. The guide completes only after the relevant new or changed detail is saved.
Record an activity · Fictional example
For illustration only. Nothing here changes your app records.
These fictional details explain the guide; they are not suggested values for your records.
- Activity
A short phone call
Small everyday activities can be useful context too.
Record an activity: troubleshooting
If the guide has not finished, check that you changed the relevant field and saved the entry. Simply reopening an existing value does not count. If Save fails, keep the draft open and use Try Again.