CHRONOGRAPH
Chronic pain tracker

Daily check‑in

NoneWorst
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Common ones — one tap to add:

Or add your own, with whatever range makes sense for it:

Current mood

LowBaselineHigh
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Mood over time

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How each factor affects your pain

FactorEffectImpact / SDStrengthrConf.

Proof

honest hedging
regression R²
forest R² (out‑of‑bag)
days analysed

Pattern structure (PCA)

How your habits cluster, and how much of the day‑to‑day variation a few patterns capture.

What do these columns mean?

Effect: whether more of this factor tends to raise or lower pain, from a multi‑factor regression (controls for the others).
Impact / SD: pain points (0–10 scale) change for a 1 standard‑deviation change in the factor — a fair way to compare units.
Strength: random‑forest permutation importance — how much the model relies on this factor, capturing non‑linear effects.
r: simple pairwise correlation with pain.
Conf.: our confidence, blending statistical significance, agreement between models, forest importance and how much data you have.

How "Delayed effects" works

Same‑day analysis misses anything that hits with a delay (post‑exertional crashes, migraine build‑up). A separate pass checks each factor a few days back, after controlling for your own recent trend, so a slow drift isn't mistaken for a driver. A confound note appears when two factors move together closely enough that we can't confidently credit one over the other from observation alone.

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Medications

tracked, never auto-tested
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Adherence

Cycle tracker

any condition

logged   predicted next — tap a day to log or remove

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Focus timer

zen

Protected blocks with a clear start and end. The point isn't discipline — it's that switching tasks leaves "attention residue" that measurably degrades the next thing you do, and it's worse when you left the last thing unfinished (Leroy, 2009). Finish or park a task before you switch.

Focus
25:00
No focus sessions logged today.

Habits

zen

Consistency over time, not an unbroken chain. Monitoring genuinely helps — it's one of the better-replicated findings in the literature (Harkin et al., 2016, 138 studies) — but streak mechanics aren't, so this tracks your rate and doesn't punish a miss.

Add a habit

Shrink it until it's almost trivially easy. Motivation is the least reliable of the three things a behaviour needs, so lean on the other two — ability and a prompt (Fogg, 2009).

This becomes an if-then plan: if [cue], then I will [habit]. That specific form has a solid, replicated effect on follow-through where general intentions don't.

Identity framing tracks with habit strength noticeably better than outcome framing does.

Expect this to take a while. The best evidence puts habit automaticity at a median of about 66 days, ranging from 18 to 254 depending on the person and the behaviour (Lally et al., 2010) — the popular "21 days" isn't from that research. Missing one day didn't measurably dent the curve, so a gap isn't a reset.

Journal

zen

Encrypted on this device with everything else. Never analysed, never scored, never turned into a factor — it's yours to write in, not more data about you.

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