Why this is hard to keep track of

  • Paper ABC charts get filled in properly for a week and then live in a drawer
  • The moment you most need to record something is the moment you have least capacity to
  • What came before is the useful part, and it's the first thing memory drops
  • Months of context have to be compressed into a fifteen-minute appointment

Worth recording

  • What happened, in your own words rather than a category
  • What came before it, whether or not it looked relevant at the time
  • What helped afterwards, and how long recovery took
  • Where it was, who was there, and what the day had already contained

Cadence

Logged when there's a hand free, or dictated afterwards

In practice

Say it once, in whatever words you have

The moments most worth recording are the ones where filling in a form is the least realistic thing in the world. A sentence, typed or dictated afterwards, is a much lower bar — and it carries the context a checkbox would have lost.

Behavior Tracking Chat

Rough afternoon — hour in the supermarket after school, then he lost it in the car park. Took about 40 minutes to settle once we got home.

Called 4 tools

  • log_event(type: "meltdown", duration_min: 40, place: "car park")
  • log_antecedent("supermarket, ~60 min, straight after school")
  • log_recovery(helped: ["home", "quiet", "weighted blanket"], minutes: 40)
  • find_pattern(window: "90d", group_by: "antecedent")

Logged. That's the seventh this term and the fifth after a supermarket trip over 30 minutes. Recovery has been 35–50 minutes every time somewhere busy came directly after a school day.

Every figure here was counted from entries you made. The model picked which tools to call — it doesn't interpret, diagnose, or decide what anything means about anyone.

And then ask

The question the log can answer

Months of entries hold real answers to the questions you've been guessing at, and reading them properly has always meant a spreadsheet and a free evening — which is not a thing anyone in this situation has.

Ask in plain language. The answers come back with the numbers behind them, including when those numbers are too thin to mean anything yet — which is the more useful answer more often than people expect.

Asking about the pattern Chat

What actually predicts a hard afternoon?

Called 3 tools

  • get_history(topic: "behavior-tracking", window: "6m")
  • find_pattern(group_by: "antecedent")
  • compare_periods(metric: "events")

Two things, fairly clearly. Nine of eleven hard afternoons followed a day with a timetable change at school, and eight of eleven involved a shop after 3pm. On days with neither, you've logged two in forty.

Counts and averages over your own entries, nothing more. Where the data is confounded or too thin, the answer says so instead of rounding it into a conclusion.

The reason most people start

Something to actually bring to the appointment

You get fifteen minutes, once, after waiting months for it. The questions are specific and the honest answers are all some version of "I don't know, it's hard to say".

What this gives you: "How often does this happen, and what sets it off?" — answered with a date range, a count, and the two conditions that actually co-occur.

  • Export the date range you were asked about, as a file you can print
  • Counts and timings rather than an impression of the worst week
  • Your own notes kept alongside the numbers, in your words
  • Nothing shared anywhere unless you choose to share it

What it won't do

  • Diagnose anything, or suggest that it could
  • Score a person, or rank them against anyone else
  • Set a target for fewer events, or a streak of good days
  • Recommend a treatment, a therapy, a diet or a medication change
  • Share your record with a school, a clinician or anyone else on its own

It's a notebook that can do arithmetic and answer questions about itself. Deciding what any of it means is a job for you and the people advising you.

Early access

Start with what you're already trying to hold in your head

Tell us what you've been trying to keep track of and we'll set it up with you — recording the thing that's actually useful, at a cadence that survives a bad week.

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  • Export everything you've logged whenever you want

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