Understanding your Insights

The Insights hub is your home for understanding your data. Tracking Breakdown lets you browse everything you’ve logged, and Your Week compares a recent snapshot with previous periods. The remaining cards are grouped by purpose: Patterns and comparisons covers factors that may occur together, Trends over time covers changes in symptoms and measures, and Reports and records contains summaries you can review or share. Some subjects appear in more than one place when they support more than one task.

Which should I use?

Patterns: explore possible associations identified by Tended.

Connections: record how logged items relate, what you tried and any outcome you noticed. You can also connect a logged item to an episode.

Episodes: follow symptom updates you consider part of the same episode.

These tools complement each other. Neither a calculated pattern nor a recorded relationship proves a cause. Connections and Episodes are optional; use either, both or neither.

Today’s Insight

The card at the top highlights the single most important thing right now — whether you’re in a flare, a new finding has reached high confidence, a symptom is trending up, or a positive change in your activities. Tap it to go deeper.

Quick stats

Below the insight, you’ll see your average day rating, entry count, lower-rated days, and logging consistency. The label beneath these figures shows their scope: an exact rolling-month date range with free access, or All recorded history with extended Insights access. The condition filter applies. This is separate from the total journal entry count in the top card. Each resolved date contributes one day rating; missing or unresolved ratings are excluded.

Free and premium

Your journal and records remain free. In Insights, free users see a useful one-month result first: trends, averages, counts, timelines, or the first comparison where one is available. A blurred “Unlock with Tended+” continuation marks deeper comparisons, correlations, interpretations, and longer history. Premium tools such as Trigger Experiments, Doctor Mode, and Explain My Condition stay locked at the card and open the purchase screen directly.

Existing-user transition

If Insights shows a transition date, deeper comparisons remain available to you until that date. To keep journaling and useful basic Insights free, deeper comparisons and longer history are now included with Tended+. Because you used Insights before this change, your deeper access continues until the date shown. You can dismiss the notice after reading it and find the date again in More, then Tended+. Your separate seven-day trial is not used. There is no countdown or automatic purchase. Direct premium tools remain locked unless Tended+ or your trial is active.

Worth discussing with your doctor

When correlations reach high confidence, a card appears at the top of the “What affects you” view listing the findings most worth raising at your next appointment. You can dismiss it after you’ve noted them — it only comes back when new high-confidence findings emerge.

Focused medication insights

The “What affects you” and symptom correlation chart views include a medication filter when medication tracking is enabled. Focused leaves stable long-term medications out so PRN, skipped, tapering, or strong signals stand out. All meds restores baseline medications to their original position for a complete review. Flow views keep medication signals focused and use their own domain filters.

What this means

Some insight views have a What this means button near the top. Tap it for a plain-English summary of the information currently visible to you. If AI enhancements are enabled, that same summary can be rewritten in a warmer tone. This is separate from the premium Explain My Condition tool.

Browse records in Journal

In Journal, tap the link button in the toolbar to open Connections and episodes across all dates. Select Connections or Episodes, then search or filter within the workspace. Entry headings still open records for that entry. Tap Save to keep workspace edits. Log new update opens a new journal entry; save that entry to add the selected symptom updates. Browsing your records remains free. Hiding Connections in Tracking settings hides these controls without deleting your records.

Connections and episode insights

In Insights, Connections and episodes appears below Patterns and comparisons and Trends over time, before Reports and records. Connection cards appear when you have saved connections; the episode card appears when you have saved episodes. If none match the current period or condition, the cards remain available so you can explore another selection. The cards and the pages they open use the same names: Reported outcomes, Episode overview and Recorded relationships. The date range below the heading shows the rolling month covered by the card summaries. All conditions means no condition filter is applied; selecting a condition narrows the summaries to matching entries. Tap the corresponding View action to open a summary.

In Insights, Reported outcomes counts what you reported after using relief methods or taking medication for a logged item or episode. Helped, No change, Felt worse, Not sure and Not recorded remain separate. Each card shows the counts for outcomes present in that group. Tap View outcomes for the complete breakdown, with the total number of recorded connections above it. Categories with zero connections remain visible without navigation arrows. Tap a category with a count above zero to review those connections, or View all connections to include every category. The toolbar info button explains the counts and missing outcomes. Not recorded means no outcome was entered; it is different from Not sure. An episode-level report is not copied to every symptom. Recorded relationships groups connections by the meaning you chose; repeated connections do not prove a cause. Its full-width card previews the number of matching connections and relationships recorded more than once. Tap View recorded relationships to see the grouped records.

Episode overview counts episodes first recorded in the selected period and labels the status rows as the current status of those episodes. Earlier ongoing episodes are not included in that summary. First recorded is the earliest known linked symptom update, not illness onset; the toolbar info button explains this. The chart shows whole-number episode counts by recorded date across the full selected period. Each populated date has an equally sized dot and a thin vertical stem from zero. The dot’s height shows the daily count; dates keep their chronological spacing. Dots are not connected. Tap the chart to inspect the nearest recorded date, or touch and hold then drag between dates. A highlighted dot and vertical guide show the selected date; the readout shows its date and episode count. Inspection does not change the scale, filters or episode list. Changing the period, condition or local status/symptom filters clears the selection. Vertical swipes still scroll the page. All Time runs from the earliest included episode through today. The date range and count scale use all episodes in the selected period and condition, before local status or symptom filters. These filters change daily counts without changing the axes, dot size or stem width. Search and grouping change only the list. If no first-recorded episodes match, the chart retains its axes and explains the empty result. The Episodes in this period list can also include earlier episodes with matching updates or estimated date ranges overlapping the period, so it can contain more episodes than the summary. Episode symptoms groups the episode title and status, with the saved Episode note available to expand. Each symptom keeps its own recorded scale and shows its recorded-update dates, rated and unrated counts, highest recorded rating and latest usable rating. A newer unrated update does not replace Latest rated. Missing ratings break chart lines. Use the toolbar info button for chart and context explanations. Supporting symptom updates and connections appear as counted navigation rows. Estimated episode duration uses valid estimated start and end dates for settled episodes first recorded in the period, never the gap between logged updates. Estimated episode duration shows its sample size with the median, shortest and longest estimates. The info button explains the median and separates included episodes from ongoing episodes, unspecified status and settled episodes without valid estimates. Tap View episode symptoms on an included episode to review its symptom updates. The duration and recurrence rows show how many eligible records are available and remain available when empty. Compare recurrences shows each linked pair as Previous episode and Recurrence, with saved titles and First recorded dates so even matching titles remain distinguishable. View comparison opens matching symptom rating scales; the card names the symptoms available to compare. A previous episode first recorded outside the selected period is labelled as context. When no ratings match, Review episode updates remains available. The toolbar info button explains explicit recurrence links, comparable scales and alignment by first recorded updates, not illness onset.

The period and condition filters apply to these summaries. Supporting records retain the selection, with complete connected-episode context labelled when it falls outside the period or condition. Unavailable or unresolved sources are excluded from measurements; missing ratings and outcomes are never zero or no change. Tap the info button in the toolbar for inclusion rules and coverage details. A day rating is not required. Period buttons show 1 Month, 3 Months, 6 Months, 1 Year and All Time when they fit. Narrower layouts use 1m, 3m, 6m, 1y and All, with full names for screen readers. Tap a button to change the range. If the compact labels also cannot fit, such as at larger text sizes, the selector becomes a menu with the same options. The last month is available free; Tended+ enables longer periods.

Search, Filters and View options are available on Reported outcomes, Episode overview and Recorded relationships. Filters use Apply to update the view; Cancel discards the filter choices you have not applied. Search and filters work within the selected period and condition. On Reported outcomes, search matches method, medication or target names; outcome filters find groups containing that report and retain the complete breakdown, including missing and uncertain outcomes. Group by relief method or medication brings related comparisons together. On Episode overview, status and included-symptom filters update figures and the episode list. Search matches episode titles and symptoms but narrows only the list. Group episodes by current status or first recorded month, or keep an ungrouped list. On Recorded relationships, search matches either item and filters can select relationship meaning or item type. Group by meaning or first connected item; each relationship group appears once. First connected item uses the source for directional relationships and the alphabetically first item for Related context. Sorting and grouping never merge or edit records. Choices remain when you return from details. Clear search and filters resets local choices without changing the period or condition. Supporting pages show the applied local scope and keep the full group or episode context. Source-availability counts use the period and condition, including unresolved records that local filters cannot classify.