Bipolar Notes

“It’s hard to put how I’ve been doing into words before an appointment.” “When I’m doing well, I can’t remember what the hard times felt like.” Bipolar Notes was designed from the point of view of someone living with bipolar, based on experiences like these. Simply record your mood, sleep, medication, steps, and period, and look back on your own patterns day by day. ■ Please note This app is a tool for recording your days and looking back on them. It doesn’t diagnose or treat anything, and it doesn’t give medical advice. If you need to make a decision about your health, talk with your doctor. ■ Record • Mood Choose from -2 to +2, and add a note if you like. You can write your own words for each level. If you’re logging later, you can choose the time. • Medication Record taken or missed for morning, midday, evening, bedtime, and as needed. Recent days are shown in a table, so you can see whether doses were missed in a row. Tap a cell to log that day. • Sleep Choose when you went to bed and when you woke up, and the app works out how long you slept. • Period Log it yourself, or bring it in from Apple Health. • Steps, sleep, and active energy from Apple Health Connect Apple Health to bring in your steps, sleep, and active energy automatically. For sleep, you can view either your main sleep (without naps) or your total sleep including naps. • From your Home Screen Log mood and medication from Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, without opening the app. ■ Look back Your logged items are in the Data tab, and charts that compare them are in the Trends tab. You can compare different kinds of records, such as mood and sleep, or mood and steps. • See each item stacked on one screen, with a 7-day average line • See your period alongside your mood • Choose how far back to look • Days you recorded a missed dose are marked on the chart • Days with notes are marked • Card headers show how many days you’ve logged ■ Detailed Report (in-app purchase for each date range; your first 14-day report is free) Turn your records into an A4 report. Choose a range of 14, 30, or 60 days. Share it as a PDF, or save its pages as images. • Mood, sleep, medication, steps, and more, laid out chapter by chapter in charts and tables • The notes you choose, shown next to that day’s records • Choose the items and notes to include before you create it • Reports you create stay in the app, so you can look back at them later ■ Weather and air pressure Turn on weather import in Settings to see each day’s weather as an icon in “Mood over time.” You can also view air pressure next to your mood in the Trends tab and in the Detailed Report. Air pressure values come from Apple Weather and are not necessarily related to mood. ■ Recent summary Turn your recent mood, sleep, and steps into one image and save it to Photos. You choose the time range, the items, and the look. ■ Keep going • Get reminders in three time slots (morning, midday, and evening) at the times you choose. Turn off any you don’t need • Add records for past days by choosing the date • Edit your records afterward ■ Your records Your records are stored only on your device. No account is needed. The app doesn’t send your records anywhere for cloud storage, ads, or usage tracking. Only when you turn on weather import does the app send an approximate location (within about 10 km) to Apple Weather to look up the weather. Your records are not sent. You can export a backup of your records and keep it wherever you like, such as in the Files app.