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A symptom diary for a doctor’s appointment — private, exportable, no health-app account
Date, symptom, severity, what you ate or did. A clean PDF for the appointment, and nothing uploaded anywhere.
Leanfinit · 4 min read
“Keep a diary and bring it next time,” the doctor says. The health apps you find want an account, a subscription, and permission to share “anonymised” data. Your migraines are not a dataset. They are a list you need to print.
What the doctor actually wants to see
- 1Date & timeWhen it started.
- 2Severity 1–5One tap.
- 3Possible triggersChips: sleep, stress, food, weather, cycle.
- 4What helpedMedication, rest, nothing.
Week 1
3
Week 2
4
Week 3
2
Week 4
1
Patterns you can see
| Trigger | Times tagged |
|---|---|
| Poor sleep | 7 |
| Skipped meal | 5 |
| Stress | 4 |
| Red wine | 3 |
| Weather change | 2 |
Export, don’t upload
The diary lives on your phone. Before the appointment, export a one-page PDF: a table of episodes and a trigger summary. The doctor gets a clean document; no server ever saw it.
“Symptom diary: entries with date/time, severity 1–5, trigger tags, what helped, note. Weekly episode chart, trigger frequency table, and a one-page PDF export for the last 30 or 90 days. No account, stored on device only.”
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