Getting started

Tended helps you record symptoms, notes and other details that matter to you. Log as often as is useful; a day rating is optional.

Your first entry

1. In Journal, tap + to create an entry. 2. Check the date and time, then add the details you want. A day rating is optional. 3. Tap Save. You can return to edit the entry later.

What to log

Record a symptom, a note or another detail. Add only what is useful to you. You can save an entry without a day rating, or rate a date separately from its entries.

Condition starter sets

During setup, choose your conditions and tap Continue for a short Starter kit summary. Continue with these items accepts the items shown. Choose my own items opens the full picker with Symptoms, Triggers, Food & Drink, Activities, Relief Methods and Custom Fields. Continue without suggestions keeps your conditions without adding items. The summary groups a small selection by category: symptoms and relevant circumstances, intake, everyday activities or custom fields where available. Categories without suitable defaults stay empty; relief methods are chosen by you. These add tracking options, not recorded experiences. You can change or clear any selection. An empty selection has one action to continue without suggestions. Back returns to the previous screen, so you can change your mind. Your choices are saved when you finish setup.

In More > Tracking > My Conditions, tap Add and choose a condition to review all six categories. Search the suggestions and expand a category to select items. Each expanded category has Select all and Clear all icon buttons on the right of its heading. The checked circle selects the category; the empty circle clears it. During search, Select matches and Clear matches affect only matching items in that category; hidden selections and other categories are kept. The count and checkmarks update immediately. An action is disabled when it would not change the selection. Tap Save to add the condition and your choices. Cancel adds nothing. Clear all categories clears every category, including items hidden by search, so you can save just the condition. To edit or remove tracked items later, open the relevant section in More > Tracking. My Conditions adds starter suggestions; unchecking an existing item there does not remove it from your tracking list.

Customise your journal

Triggers, Food & Drink, Activities and Relief Methods start on only when you choose at least one starter item in that category. Empty categories start off. You can switch a section on to add your own items later. Unchecked symptoms and custom fields are not added.

Energy, Sleep and Medications start on. Body Map and Photos start on with named conditions and off for simple setup. Periods start off. Bowel Movements, Reactions and Crash / PEM Tracking suggestions follow your conditions.

Going Back keeps your choices. If you revise your starter kit or conditions, only suggestions whose on/off default changes are refreshed. Unrelated choices are kept.

Tap an existing condition in My Conditions to review its Starter kit again. Existing items are reused, not duplicated; archived items stay archived. Shared suggestions are general recording choices, not condition-specific advice. Foods are things to record, not a diet or avoidance list. Triggers describe circumstances you want to observe, not proven causes. Activities are observations, not exercise targets. Relief methods record things you already try. New custom fields start unpinned. Turning a tracking section on or updating Tended does not automatically refill its catalogue.

Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), hip dysplasia, shoulder impingement and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis include optional context, everyday activities and extra details alongside symptoms. Some categories use shared choices where there is no condition-specific set. Thyroid Disease remains available as a broader option. PMOS / PCOS appears with both names because PMOS is the updated name for PCOS, while many clinicians, records and searches still use PCOS during the transition.

How often

Log as often as is useful to you. You can update an entry or make separate timestamped entries when symptoms or circumstances change. If several symptom updates belong together, you can optionally group them into an episode. There is no need to use Connections or log everything. Tended will never guilt you for missing a day.

Entries without a Day Rating

A saved entry is complete without a Day Rating. The rating is an optional assessment of the date, separate from symptoms and their severity. You can rate a date without making an entry, or return later to edit or clear its rating. In the Day Rating sheet, choose the overall rating, then tap Save. Previous entry ratings appears below the choices with an entry count. It appears expanded only while ratings need review. Tap its heading to expand or collapse it without changing your selection. After saving your review, the section is hidden. Clearing a reviewed rating leaves the day unrated without restoring the old conflict. The original ratings remain preserved. In the entry editor, the Day rating heading explains that the assessment applies to the whole date. With Circles, Chips or Pills in the entry editor, tap the selected Day value again and confirm to clear the rating for the whole date, then save. Sliders and Cards provide a clear control within the Day control. There is no additional Clear rating row. In every rating style, previous ratings and review actions stay directly below Day, before a divider separates Energy and the other entry ratings. Previous ratings and Leave day unrated appear only while review is unresolved. All entries on that date display the same assessment.

What Tended does with your data

After a few weeks of entries, Tended starts spotting patterns: what differs between your lower-rated and higher-rated days, which factors often appear together, and how symptoms and measures change over time. These observations appear on the Insights hub, where each card takes you deeper into a specific area.

Quick logging

On tough days, you don’t need to open the app. Rate your day from the home screen widget, check pending medications from the medication widget, or use Siri: “Rate my day on Tended.” Apple Watch Ultra users can assign the Action Button to log a flare with a single press. Switch to day-by-day view for a calmer, one-day-at-a-time experience — swipe between days. Long-press the + button on the timeline to use “Same as yesterday” — it creates a new entry pre-filled with yesterday’s symptoms, triggers, food, medications, activities, and more.

What Tended is not

Tended is a personal health journal, not a medical device. It doesn’t provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It helps you review observations from your own records and share them with a healthcare professional.

Guided help

Open More > Support > Help & guide to browse illustrated topics. Tap the question-mark button (Help me here) to open the current guide or relevant help for this screen. Use All, Guided tasks or Articles to choose what to see, or search for an answer. A guided task opens the normal app screen with a compact instruction. More help expands the explanation; Next and Previous move through the instructions. Expanded help stays open as you move between steps. Tap Less help to collapse it. Use the app controls to do the task. Journal entries do not require a day rating. Quick check-in accepts a day rating, a note or both. Settings review guides finish with Done at the last step, or Finish review in Guide details; you do not need to change a setting. Each guide has the steps its task needs. Make a connection, Create an episode from existing symptoms and Log a new episode update guide you through the normal Connections and Episodes screens. Apply changes the draft; these guides finish only when the connection, episode or included symptom update is saved. End guide removes guidance without discarding your work. Completed guidance disappears automatically. Open Fictional example to explore an example without saving records. Guide details groups steps, examples and troubleshooting separately from related help and guide controls. Return to task stays at the bottom while you read; Pause guide lets you continue later. Guidance preferences are available from the gear button. In Guidance preferences, choose When I ask to start guides yourself, or Off to stop guided tasks. Turning guidance off ends active instructions without discarding your work. Guided tasks and their filters are hidden, so you can browse and search help articles on their own. After relaunch, unfinished guides are paused. In More > Support, choose Visit Cocoacorn website for app information and online help.

Before starting an entry guide, Choose visible tracking fields opens Tracking without starting the task. Close Tracking to return to the guide introduction. You can also change visible fields in More > Tracking.

Make a quick check-in

Save a small check-in without filling a full form.

Choose a day rating, write a note, or do both. You do not need to fill the full entry form.

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Make a quick check-in: steps

1. Choose a rating or write a note A rating is optional when you write a note. A rating without a note updates the whole date without creating a journal entry.
2. Check what you are saving A note creates a journal entry. A day rating applies across all entries on that date. Add more details saves this check-in first, then opens the full entry form.
3. Save the check-in Tap Save and wait for the sheet to close. The guide finishes after the check-in is saved.

Make a quick check-in: troubleshooting

If Save is unavailable, choose a rating or write a note. Reopening an unchanged rating does not finish the guide. Add a note if useful, or use End guide. If saving fails, keep the screen open and try again.

Create a journal entry

Save what you want to record at a particular time.

A reflection, symptom or another journal detail is enough. A day rating is optional and applies to the whole date.

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Create a journal entry: steps

1. 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.
2. Add what you want to record Write a reflection, add a symptom or use another enabled field. You do not need to fill every section. Review carried-forward details so they match this entry.
3. Day rating is optional Leave Day rating unset if you do not want to rate the day. If you choose or change a rating, it applies to the whole date across all entries.
4. Save your entry Tap Save after adding or changing a journal detail. The guide finishes when the entry is saved. A day rating on its own updates the date without creating an entry.

Create a journal entry: troubleshooting

To create an entry, add a reflection, symptom or another journal detail. You can leave Day rating unset. If saving fails, keep the draft open and use Try Again.