SymTimeline
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Getting started
A few minutes of setup, then you're on your dashboard.
Create your account
- Register with your email address and a password (8 characters minimum — we kept it short on purpose, since remembering a long one is one more thing to manage on a hard day).
- Check your email for a verification link and click it. You won't be able to sign in until your email is verified.
- Sign in, and you'll land on a short welcome screen.
First-time setup
SymTimeline detects your timezone automatically, so your "today" always matches your actual day, not a server clock somewhere else. You'll be asked for an optional postal code — this is just for possible future weather-related context, entirely optional, and never visible to the SymTimeline team.
Your dashboard starts with four things pinned: Pain, Fatigue, Brain fog, and Rest. Everything else in the library — dozens of other symptoms, activities, and rest types — is there whenever you want it, just not cluttering your first look.
Your dashboard
Everything lives on one page, organized into a few sections.
Track
The symptoms, rest types, and vitals you've pinned, grouped by category (Pain & body sensations, Energy & thinking, and so on). Tap one to log it instantly.
Activities
Same idea, for things you do — chores, exercise, work, social time — so you can track what an activity costs you, not just what happened to you.
Routines
Only shows up once you've added at least one routine (a daily check-in — see the Routines section). It appears on your dashboard the moment you add it.
Well-being
Five faces, one tap, for how you're feeling right now.
Today
A running list of everything you've logged today, with a short detail line under each entry — a symptom shows its location and severity, an activity shows its difficulty and duration, and so on.
History
Pick any date range and see a chart of how your mood moved over that time, plus a timeline of everything else you logged alongside it — a fast way to notice patterns, like a mood dip that follows a bad pain day.
Logging an entry
Two speeds, depending on how much detail you have energy for.
Quick-log
Tap a button on your dashboard and it's recorded instantly, timestamped to the moment. No form, no questions — just "this happened."
Detailed entry
Tap the pencil icon on a button instead, and you'll get a short form tailored to what you're logging. A symptom might ask where it hurts, how intense it is, and what it feels like; an activity might ask how difficult it was, how long it took, and how you felt afterward. The exact fields depend on what you're tracking — see Customizing your dashboard for how those fields get chosen.
Made a mistake? Every entry has an Undo option right after you log it, and you can go back and edit the details on anything you've recorded.
Customizing your dashboard
SymTimeline is built around the idea that no two people track the same way.
Adding and removing buttons
From Timeline Settings, you can search the full library and pin or unpin anything. You can also remove a button right from the dashboard: tap Edit at the top of Track or Activities, choose Remove items, and a small × appears on every button — tap it to unpin.
Rearranging your layout
Tap Edit, then Customize layout, and drag your buttons into whatever order actually makes sense to you. While you're customizing, the category headings step aside so you can see everything as one flat list.
Once you've got an arrangement you like, you can:
- Save it as a named layout, so you can come back to it later.
- Switch between any layouts you've saved.
- Revert to default any time, which brings back the categorized view.
Creating a custom symptom or activity
Don't see what you're looking for? Create it. Type a name, and SymTimeline suggests which details are worth tracking for it — location, intensity, what it feels like — based on similar entries in the library. You can turn off anything that doesn't apply to you before you save it, so your form only ever asks what's actually relevant.
Logging something that isn't on your dashboard
Use Log something else, right next to the Track section, to search the full symptom library and log an entry on the spot — without permanently adding a button for it.
Routines
A routine is a short set of check-in questions you answer in one sitting — a morning or evening ritual, a post-activity reflection, whatever fits your day.
Pick a starter template and choose Add (it goes straight to your dashboard, ready whenever you are) or Add and start (same thing, and it opens right away so you can answer it now). You can also build a fully custom routine from scratch — your own questions, your own answer types (a 1–10 scale, a smiley-face mood picker, true/false, multiple choice, a symptom picker, or a short text answer).
If you ever want to start over, Reset to defaults restores a template routine exactly as it shipped, and Re-add defaults brings back any default questions you'd removed, without losing your other customizations.
Reports
Turn weeks of entries into something you can actually hand to a doctor.
From the Reports panel, pick a date range and generate a PDF, or export the raw data as CSV or JSON. The PDF includes a plain-language summary of your symptoms, activities, rest, mood, and vitals for that range — and if you've filled in your About Me profile (see Settings), it opens with a short "About this person" section, so you're not repeating your basics to every new provider.
Not a diagnosis. Every report is built entirely from what you've entered. It's meant to be a discussion tool for an appointment, not a medical conclusion — SymTimeline doesn't diagnose, recommend treatment, or claim to know what's causing anything.
Settings
Split into four places, so each one only holds what actually belongs there.
Timeline Settings
Your dashboard button library (pin/unpin anything), recording preferences like blood glucose units, and your routines.
About Me
A fully optional health profile — height, weight, age, the condition you're tracking, biological sex, diagnosis date, and current medications. Shows up automatically in your PDF reports.
Page Settings
Change your password, and your optional postal code.
Privacy & Contributions
Every choice about what, if anything, you'd like to share — see the next section.
Privacy & your data
Everything here is off by default. Nothing about using SymTimeline requires turning any of it on.
The standard admin console can manage account-level things — email verification, sign-in sessions, security — but it cannot browse your symptoms, activities, notes, or reports. That boundary is enforced in the code itself, not just a policy promise.
If you'd like to help improve SymTimeline, there are five completely independent, opt-in ways to contribute — sharing a custom symptom or activity name with the community library, sharing limited product-usage information, or allowing de-identified observations to help improve reports or analysis features. Each one can be turned on or off separately, and choosing not to participate never limits any part of the app.
Frequently asked questions
The questions we get asked most.
Is my health data private?
Yes. Your entries, notes, and reports aren't visible to the standard admin console — that boundary is built into the code, not just a setting. Anything you might choose to contribute to help improve SymTimeline is separate, opt-in, off by default, and de-identified.
Can my doctor see my SymTimeline account?
Not directly — there's no shared login. The way to bring your data to an appointment is to generate a PDF report (or export CSV/JSON) and bring or send that.
Does SymTimeline diagnose me or tell me what's wrong?
No. SymTimeline records what you choose to enter and organizes it clearly. It doesn't diagnose conditions, recommend treatment, or draw conclusions about causes — reports are meant as a discussion tool for you and your healthcare provider, not a medical opinion.
What if I forget to log something, or want to log it for earlier today?
Use the pencil icon for a detailed entry — the same form used to add specifics also lets you note context around timing. If you need to correct an entry after the fact, you can edit it from wherever it appears in your Today list or History.
Can I delete or edit an entry after I've logged it?
Yes. Recent entries have an Undo option immediately after logging, and any entry can be opened again and edited.
What happens if I delete a saved layout that's currently active?
Your dashboard safely falls back to the default categorized view — nothing breaks, and none of your buttons disappear. You can always customize and save a new layout afterward.
Is SymTimeline free?
Yes. It's offered as a free, independent project — not backed by a healthcare organization, insurer, pharmaceutical company, or device manufacturer.
How do I change my password?
Page Settings has a Change password section, right alongside your location settings.
Can I use SymTimeline on my phone?
Yes — it's built mobile-first and works in any modern browser, no app install required.
I track more than one condition. Can SymTimeline handle that?
Yes. Your symptom and activity library isn't tied to a single condition — pin whatever's relevant across however many things you're tracking, and use the About Me profile's "condition" field for whichever one you want to lead with in your reports.