What Is Medication Diary?
Medication Diary records how your medication response changes over the course of a day. Instead of choosing between two states, it records how well you are moving right now, and lets that record become a curve.
What it records
A record has three parts. Output — how well the body is moving right now. Medication — what was taken, and when. Events — things like meals, activity, or dyskinesia that can affect the curve.
Once the three sit on the same timeline, what's left isn't scattered notes — it's the shape of a day.
- Response through the day
- Time a dose was taken
Why not just two states
Recording medication response as simply "on" or "off" erases the wide stretch in between. Whether the curve is still rising, has risen but stays lower than usual, or is on its way down — all three collapse into one. Most of what a clinic visit actually needs lives in that stretch.
So instead of asking you to choose a state, Medication Diary asks you to record a degree. You can keep recording even in a moment where it's hard to say which side you're on.
Where records are kept
Records stay on the device you use. This website does not receive or store them. Export and restore are built in for when you switch devices or reset one.
Read in order
If this is your first time, reading from the top works well.
- Getting Started A step-by-step guide to what to do first when you open the app.
- How to Record Output How to record how well your body is moving right now.
- Recording Doses Recording what you took and when, so it can be laid over the curve.
- Recording Events Marking things like meals, activity, or dyskinesia that can affect the curve.
- Viewing the Graph How your records turn into a day's curve.
- PHS / Reports Putting your records into a form you can bring to a clinic visit.
- Backup & Restore How to export and restore your records so you don't lose them.
- Frequently Asked Questions The most common questions when you're just getting started.