How to use

qawqaw — a calendar for what you take

qawqaw is a tool for recording what you took and when, by yourself. You log the things you repeat — medication, supplements, food, exercise — and look back on them through a calendar and statistics. You can start without creating an account.

1. First, create the thing you want to log

Create an item in settings. You give it:

• Name — as long as you like.
• Short label — 1–4 characters. This is what appears in a calendar cell. Emoji work.
• Colour and shape — so items are distinguishable at a glance.
• Tags — as many as you like, free text. Group things however you think about them, then filter by tag from the top of the screen.
• Schedule (optional) — daily, every N days, chosen weekdays, or monthly. This decides whether today is one of its days, and you can attach several times of day to it.

If you save without filling anything in, the item is still created — it gets a short label that is distinct from the others. You can start using it and tidy up later.

Items stay distinguishable without colour

Every item carries a colour and a shape together, so they remain distinct with colour vision deficiency or in greyscale — nothing in the app speaks through colour alone.

2. Tap once when you take it

On the record tab, tapping an item logs that moment. There is no step for picking a date or a time — this is something you do several times a day, so it is one tap.

• If you tap twice by mistake — tapping an item you just logged asks "you logged this a few minutes ago, again?" instead of silently piling up entries.
• Undo — available right after recording.
• Wrong time? — edit that entry's time from the timeline in record detail.

3. The calendar shows you what happened

Each day shows the marks of the items you logged and how many entries there were, so the days you missed read as empty cells.

• Filling in a past day — tap the date and set a time. Past days ask for the time.
• You cannot log the future — it has not happened yet.

Your "day" does not have to end at midnight

If you take something in the small hours, a midnight boundary is the confusing answer. From the menu you can move when your day starts, and anything logged before that hour counts as the previous day. You can also pick a time zone, so "today" stays one thing while travelling.

4. Statistics always show their basis

An average on its own cannot be trusted, so every number carries its basis.

• Times per day — alongside the "n times over m days" it came from.
• Adherence — only for items with a schedule, with "n taken / m expected" beside it.
• Which recent days have entries — at a glance.
• When you last took it.
• Period — all time, or the last N days.

⚠️ "All time" cannot be compared across items, because each item started on a different day — the screen says so and asks you to pick a period instead. If your records only begin partway through the period, that is stated too.

5. "Due" — what today asks of you

Items with a schedule appear as a list of what is due that day. Where the calendar talks about what happened, this talks about what is coming. You can look at future dates too, which by definition have no records yet.

Items with no schedule and no attached time do not appear here — those are the ones you log as they happen.

6. Fits your eyes and hands

• Text size, four steps.
• Theme — follow the device, light, or dark.
• Language — English or Korean, or follow the device.
• Generous tap targets, and zooming is never blocked.

7. An account is optional

• Without an account — records stay on this device. Nothing goes to a server, and the screen keeps telling you so.
• With a Google account linked — records are also stored on the server, so they survive changing devices. If anything is still waiting to be sent, you see how much — you never have to guess whether it saved.

8. It opens offline

The app opens and still records on a plane or underground. When you are back online, anything queued is sent if you linked an account — and until it is sent, the screen does not hide that.

9. Your records are yours — export and delete them

• Export everything (JSON) — items, records and reminder settings in one file, for keeping.
• Export records only (CSV) — opens in a spreadsheet. Handy to bring to an appointment.
• Delete everything — removes records from the server and this device. It cannot be undone, so export first.

If you already removed the app, you can still delete from the web on the account and data deletion page.

⚠️ What does not work yet

• A phone app — this is a web app today. An Android app is planned.
• Custom date ranges — for now, all time or the last N days.

This list is here on purpose — so nothing absent is described as if it existed.

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