Day ratings explained
From the app’s English Help & Guide · Reference release 1.0.33
Tap Rate day, Review Day Rating or a saved rating in the Journal or calendar to open a focused Day Rating sheet. Choose a rating or clear it, then save. This does not add a journal entry. Cancel discards your unsaved changes. Conflicting previous entry ratings show their recorded times for review.
Day Rating is an optional overall assessment of how a calendar date went. Choose one of five values with a label that reflects your experience. It belongs to the date, not to an individual entry or symptom. Multiple entries share that date's assessment; rating a date on its own does not create a journal entry. The flame marks ratings 1 or 2; it does not mean you recorded a flare. Use the info button beside Day rating, or in Quick check-in, to read this explanation at any time.
Set, change or clear
Tap the date's rating in Journal, or use the Day Rating control in a new or edited entry, Quick check-in, Watch, widget or Siri. Choosing a different rating changes that date's assessment. Clear rating deliberately leaves it unrated; Tended does not fill the gap with an older entry rating. Leaving the control untouched keeps the assessment unchanged. Missing and unresolved ratings are excluded from rating comparisons, rather than treated as an average day.
Existing history and competing changes
Your old entries and their original values remain. Where older entries disagree about one date, or devices make competing changes, Tended keeps the versions for review instead of averaging them or choosing silently. Review the assessment and select the value that represents the day. Changing an entry's timestamp does not move or copy a recorded date assessment automatically.
What the ratings mean
Use the scale relative to your own experience. Tended groups 1-2 as lower-rated days and 4-5 as higher-rated days for comparisons; 3 sits between those groups. These are analysis categories, not universal definitions. With Tended+, you can customise the labels in the More tab.
Why rating groups matter
Correlations, patterns, and reports compare the lower-rated and higher-rated groups to find repeated differences in what you logged. They are personal observations, not medical conclusions or proof of cause and effect.
Rating consistently
Try to rate the overall impact of your condition relative to your own usual experience. A physically difficult day can still include good moments, and an easier physical day can still feel emotionally difficult. Consistent rating makes comparisons easier to interpret, but does not establish cause and effect.