Unknown is not 'symptom-free': designing a private menopause symptom tracker

Perimenopause appointments are short. The symptoms they're about happened weeks ago, scattered across nights and workdays, and they're hard to remember in the room. My Midlife Story is a private symptom tracker built to fix exactly that gap: capture the moment in one tap, then hand your clinician one clear page. One tap, timestamped Hot flash, foggy, poor sleep, overwhelmed: one tap saves the moment with its date and time. Add your own words when you want. You can also record night sweats, periods, energy, joint aches, anxiety, and treatment changes your clinician prescribed. A data rule we cared about: unknown is not "fine" Missing days stay unknown, not symptom-free. If you didn't log on Tuesday, the app doesn't pretend Tuesday was a good day. That keeps summaries honest and stops gaps from flattening a pattern. Later notes never overwrite earlier ones, either. "Something changed" marks when a symptom shifts or a treatment changes, and every line in the vis

Nov 15, 2026

Unknown is not 'symptom-free': designing a private menopause symptom tracker

Perimenopause appointments are short. The symptoms they're about happened weeks ago, scattered across nights and workdays, and they're hard to remember in the room. My Midlife Story is a private symptom tracker built to fix exactly that gap: capture the moment in one tap, then hand your clinician one clear page.

One tap, timestamped

Hot flash, foggy, poor sleep, overwhelmed: one tap saves the moment with its date and time. Add your own words when you want. You can also record night sweats, periods, energy, joint aches, anxiety, and treatment changes your clinician prescribed.

A data rule we cared about: unknown is not "fine"

Missing days stay unknown, not symptom-free. If you didn't log on Tuesday, the app doesn't pretend Tuesday was a good day. That keeps summaries honest and stops gaps from flattening a pattern.

Later notes never overwrite earlier ones, either. "Something changed" marks when a symptom shifts or a treatment changes, and every line in the visit brief links back to the original note.

The one-page visit brief

Pick your main concern, up to three questions and the notes you want to share. Preview and edit a one-page brief, then save it as a PDF, print it, or share it only when you decide.

Progress without pressure

Every note grows an animated story garden through eight chapters, from Seedling to Forest. There are no streaks to lose, and points never depend on symptoms or how you feel. On harder days, Low-Capacity mode shows larger, calmer controls with one main action at a time.

Private by design

No account, no ads, no tracking and no automatic health-data uploads. Records stay on the device, with a password-encrypted backup you control. Apple Health sleep context, reminders and the widget stay off until you turn them on.