Cycle
Cycle is a period tracker drawn the way a printed planner draws one: a year of small squares, shaded in as you mark a day's flow, its symptoms and anything you want to note.
- Mark a dayTap the square, then set a flow, a symptom, or both.
- Mark today, on a phoneThe + button fans out the flows and your symptoms.
- Keep your own symptomsType a word, or take one of the dashed suggestions.
- Teach it your numbersAdjust, or leave it to read your own marks.
- Turn forecasting offTurn the forecast off and the grid shows only the days you marked.
Reading the year grid
Every day of the year sits in one grid, shaded to whatever you marked on it. It's one colour at different strengths, so a heavier day draws as a darker square.
Marking a day
Tap a day to open it. What it asks for:
- Flow spotting through to heavy.
- Symptoms as many words as the day had.
- A note for anything else.
A day doesn't need a flow to be worth marking. Noting a symptom and nothing else is a real and common way to use this page.
Marking a day's flow and a symptom
Marking a day's flow and a symptom, on a phone
Adding your own symptoms
Five suggestions sit at the end of the chip row, dashed rather than solid so they never look like something you've already kept. Tap one to keep it, or type your own. Nothing here is a fixed medical vocabulary.
They keep offering themselves back even after you've passed on one, because the day you actually want "Headache" is the worst possible day to have lost it. The × beside a suggestion turns it down for good.
Adjusting your cycle and period length
Left alone, Cycle works out your typical length from what you've actually marked, and never starts by assuming a textbook 28 days. Adjust opens on whatever it worked out, and Use my marks hands it straight back.
Adjusting the cycle and period length
Nothing here is ever late
Most trackers of this kind count forward from an expected day and start saying so: three days late, irregular, a red ring on a day that never came. A forecast here only ever draws ahead of today, and once it's passed without a mark it stops being shown rather than turning into a warning.
a body isn't something to gradeQuestions about the cycle tracker
The details, for when you want them. Nothing here is required reading.What if I forget to mark a day, or several?
Nothing is counted against you. A single unmarked day between two marked ones is treated as part of the same stretch rather than splitting it in two.
A longer gap is read as time you weren't tracking, and left out of the average rather than dragging it around.
Does Cycle predict a fertile window?
No. Estimating your next period from your own marks is arithmetic on what you've already told it. A fertile window is a different kind of claim, read as advice rather than as your own record, and that isn't what this page is for.
What happens if I remove a symptom I added?
It stops being offered on any day, and it won't come back as a suggestion: turning down your own word once should be enough. Typing the same word again makes a fresh one.
Why does this grid look like the one on Mood?
They're drawn from the same year grid and read the same direction preference, so a year turned sideways on one reads sideways on the other. What they hold is separate: a mood is one word, while a day here can hold a flow, several symptoms and a note at once.
Can I track temperature or medication here too?
Not on this page. Each is a different kind of measurement with a different shape, and folding them all in would turn one clear grid into a chart nobody opens.
Who can see what I mark here?
Nobody but you. It's kept with the rest of your planner, on the same terms as everything else you write in it. See Privacy.