What do the flag colours mean on my log?

Flags, dots and colours: which is which

Several coloured things show on the calendar, and they are easy to mix up:

• The tile or card colour is the activity's own colour, the one you picked for it (teal for Run, orange for Vitamins). It says which activity it is.
• The small dot in the corner of a logged entry is the flag, in the day and week views. Red, amber or green, or no dot if you did not set one. It says how that one time went.
• The dots in the month view are activity colours, one per logged activity on that day. Flags do not show in the month view.
• Faded tiles (Week and Day view) or hollow rings (Month view) are planned activities not logged yet, for activities with a schedule (Premium).

So a red dot on a single entry is a flag on that one log, set when it was logged or edited later.

Common ways to use the three colours

A traffic light works because everyone reads it the same way. Some ways people use it:

• How it went. Green: went well. Amber: partly, late or a struggle. Red: something went wrong. Works for almost any routine.
• Training load. Green: easy session. Amber: hard. Red: cut short, or pain worth keeping an eye on. Next to a short note ("left knee, stairs") this builds a record you can show a physio.
• Skin and new products. Green: no reaction. Amber: mild tingling or redness. Red: a reaction you want to look at again. Useful when you introduce one product at a time.
• Medication. Green: on time. Amber: taken late. Red: a problem you want to raise with your doctor or pharmacist. The flag records what happened; it does not judge whether anything is safe.
• Pets and children. Green: ate everything. Amber: ate half. Red: refused, or was unwell.

Whatever you use flags for, keep in mind they are a note to yourself, not a measurement or advice.

Pick one meaning and write it down

Flags only help if red means the same thing in March as it did in January. A few rules:

1. One meaning per routine. Training can use the load scheme and Skincare the reaction scheme, but do not mix two schemes inside one routine.
2. Write the key down. Keep it in a note on your phone, or as the note on the first log where you use flags, for example "Flags: green easy, amber hard, red pain". While it is among the last five notes for that activity, it also shows under Previous comments when you open a log.
3. Use red sparingly. If half your logs are red, the colour stops standing out. Keep it for the entries you will want to find again.
4. Add a few words to amber and red. The colour says something happened; the note says what.
5. No flag is fine. Most logs do not need one. A plain entry already says "done".

Setting, changing and finding flags

Tap a logged entry on the Calendar tab to open the Log Entry sheet, pick a dot under Flag, and tap Save. The dot with a cross means no flag. You can change or remove it later the same way. Logging several activities at once with Log saves them without flags, so tap an entry afterwards if it needs one. Step by step: add a note or flag to a log.

Flags belong to one log, not to the activity, and are free on every plan. They stay private: sharing a routine never shares logs, notes or flags.

To find flagged logs later, browse the Week view or open days in the Day view and look for the dots. Highlighting one activity by tapping its tile above the calendar narrows it down. Finding an old note covers this in more detail.

Common questions

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