SymDiary
The SymDiary icon: a clipboard with a heart and a pencil.

Write it down when it happens.

SymDiary is a symptom diary that lives on your own computer. Note what you felt and when you felt it, then save the whole lot as a PDF to take to your next appointment with a doctor, a nurse or whoever you are seeing.

Free and open source; your notes never leave your computer.

The SymDiary window showing the recording form: a symptom, a severity, a note and the time.

How it works

Three things; the middle one takes care of itself.

1

Notice it, write it down

Type what you felt in your own words. Add a note if you want one and say how bad it was; leave both out if you would rather, since only the symptom is asked for. It stamps the time for you; set a different one when you are writing up something from earlier.

2

It builds up

Every entry stays, newest first. Weeks later you have the thing memory cannot give you: what happened, in order, with the times beside it.

3

Save it for the appointment

Choose the dates you want, then press Save PDF; mark the day of your last appointment and it starts from there. You get a document numbered page by page, which you can print, email or keep. Take the sheet to your appointment and hand it to the doctor or nurse you are seeing.

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