Data Guide
Read the record rules, backfill logic, and protection flow before comparing the numbers.
Last reviewed: 2026-04-10
What this guide helps you understand
This page explains how the records are protected, interpreted, and kept useful for later reading.
This page is for the rules behind the records: what is kept, what is protected, and how to read repaired or estimated values. It is not the page for today's state or the long trend itself.
- The record starts from human-written diary notes, not from invented summaries
- Private details are reduced before publication
- Unknown points stay unknown instead of being guessed
- Cause-and-effect is treated as a testable idea, not a certainty
Reading rules
- Do not add facts that were never written
- Keep units, times, and counts aligned with the original notes
- Leave unclear values unresolved instead of forcing a guess
- Treat causes as candidates with stronger or weaker support
- Read each event with the surrounding timeline
- Check that dates and sequence do not contradict each other
How backfilled and estimated fields are treated
A short reader-facing guide for repaired or refined telemetry.
Public pages mix fields taken directly from diary notes with fields that may be backfilled or refined later. When in doubt, read source-near items first and use derived values as supporting context.
- Prefer fields closest to the original diary note, such as meals, elimination times, and event memos
- Tags, alone-time fields, weather, and some derived metrics may be refined later and should be used as supporting context
- If a value includes estimation, treat it as a review cue rather than proof
- Unknown values stay unknown; blanks are not force-filled for presentation
How one diary day becomes structured data
A free-form daily note is split into units that are easier to compare later.
A single diary day keeps the free-form note while also being organized into a few comparison-friendly groups.
- Meals: morning, evening, and total intake are stored separately
- Elimination: success, failure, and time-of-day are kept apart
- Health events: dental care, vomiting, clinic visits, or social moments are separated into event rows
- Environment: weather, visitors, and alone-time are linked to the same day
- Tags: only short retrieval-friendly themes are kept for later lookup