Keep a notebook you can interpret later

Record what is known at the time

The notebook can hold an intake, its timing and amount, routine context and notes. Record ordinary activity you want to remember. Nootrack does not assign a substance, dose or treatment, and this guide is not a reason to change one.

A useful entry answers a few practical questions: what was recorded, when did it happen, how was the amount obtained, and was it confirmed? If you are unsure, keep the uncertainty visible. An exact looking number typed from memory does not become a measured amount.

• Use the compound and formulation that match the record.
• Distinguish active ingredient from a count or quantity of a product.
• Keep the actual event time separate from the time you entered it.
• Add a short note when context will be hard to reconstruct later.

Amount and timing have separate precision

Nootrack distinguishes reported, estimated, ranged and unknown amounts. It also distinguishes active ingredient from product quantity and unknown absorption. A product count does not, by itself, establish an absorbed dose. Reference presets are assumptions for recording and analysis, not measurements of your body.

You can know when an event happened without knowing its precise active amount. Preserve that known time rather than making the whole entry vague. Conversely, a known amount does not justify inventing an exact time. These distinctions affect which descriptive comparisons or secondary models can use the record.

A range states bounds you supplied. Without an additional explicit assumption, it is not a probability distribution or a confidence interval. Where the app offers an assumed distribution or dose sensitivity view, its output remains conditional on those assumptions. It does not correct every source of measurement error.

A routine is a plan until you confirm it

A daily schedule stores a version of your planned routine in a chosen timezone. Its automatic entries are planned and unconfirmed. They do not prove that an intake occurred, and an unconfirmed plan should not be interpreted as a clean day with no intake either.

Use Confirm taken, Skipped or Adjust this day to describe what actually happened. Editing the reusable routine alone does not rewrite an existing daily schedule. Use Edit future days when the plan itself changes. The recorded timezone does not silently move with travel.

Schedule expansion happens while the app is open and covers only a bounded recent period. It is not a notification service and does not run while the app is closed. Do not assume that the absence of an old generated entry proves nothing was planned or taken.

Keep notes short and corrections honest

General compound notes and notes for one intake serve different purposes. A general note can hold stable context you want to retain. An intake note can explain a one day exception, an uncertain time or why an entry was corrected. Avoid putting somebody else’s identifying or health information into your notebook.

When you notice a mistake, correct the relevant entry instead of adding a second apparent intake. Later edits can change the current context used by personal comparisons. They cannot remove recall uncertainty, and a newly corrected history does not guarantee an immediately available statistical result.

The app keeps private note text out of public catalog entries and Stand images. A separate community catalog submission is a deliberate sharing action for a compound identity, not a way to publish your intake notes.

Review the record before the result

When a result surprises you, check the underlying timeline first. Look for duplicate or unconfirmed entries, the amount basis, known timing, other recorded compounds and task context. Leave unknown details unknown rather than repairing the history to fit the result.

Keep an export when you need an independent copy. A notebook held only on one device and a record saved to your account are different copies with different risks. Review your sharing and sync choices before relying on another device to contain the same history.