Profile

ADHD tracker for mood, energy, sleep, and context

This profile keeps attention load, pacing, executive friction, and surrounding context together in one daily record. It changes the fields and wording shown so the record is easier to review over time without pretending to assess anything about you.

Common scenario “Nothing looked dramatic at first glance, but the day kept getting harder to hold together. Logging distraction, switching load, and regulation strain made the record easier to review later.”
Attention load Executive friction Regulation context
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Privacy and local-first

Private by default, with proof.

DaySense helps you see the days behind what repeated — without diagnosis, advice, or prediction. The privacy policy says entries are stored locally, no account is needed for core tracking, and entries are not uploaded to a DaySense cloud service in current builds.

Read the DaySense privacy policy

Why private ADHD tracking can help ADHD can make days hard to compare from memory alone. DaySense gives you a private place to log mood, energy, sleep, notes, attention load, switching friction, pacing, and daily context, then review the record later without diagnosis, advice, or pressure.

Non-diagnostic boundary

What DaySense does not do

DaySense does not diagnose ADHD, screen for ADHD, predict symptoms, score risk, recommend treatment, or tell you what to do. It keeps a private record of what you choose to log.

What DaySense helps you do

DaySense keeps your daily record in one place.

  • LogMood, energy, sleep, notes, and ADHD-specific context.
  • ReviewBrowse your record across recent days.
  • ReflectSave short weekly reflections.
  • Keep privateKeep the record private and local.
Best fit Choose this profile when you want focus, pace, and daily context kept together in the record.

What the ADHD profile looks like

How ADHD context appears in the record

The ADHD profile includes optional labels for the practical shape of the day, such as attention load, switching friction, pacing, and structure. These labels simply keep those details visible in the record when they match your own experience.

  • You decide which labels belong in the daily record.
  • DaySense does not use these labels as an assessment or diagnosis.
  • The labels help later review or optional sharing keep that context visible in the record.
DaySense ADHD tracker – daily log screen
LogADHD context
DaySense ADHD tracker – review screen browsing recent days
ReviewBrowse your record
DaySense ADHD tracker – focus board showing attention patterns over the week
Focus boardWeekly attention pattern

Get DaySense

Log your day, then review your record.

The app loop is simple: log the day, review your record, and save a short weekly reflection when something is worth keeping.

How the review works

How this profile works

This profile combines the core daily metrics with practical context about distraction, switching load, and regulation so the record reflects more of the real shape of the day over time.

Core metrics

Core daily metrics

The core daily log gives the profile a broad baseline. Attention, switching, and pacing context can add shape where those inputs are available.

Attention context

Attention load

The profile lets you mark distraction, interruptions, task switching, and time demand so later review can show more than mood alone.

Executive friction

Regulation and pacing

It can also keep pacing and regulation context visible, especially when the day felt unusually unstructured, overloaded, or hard to restart.

What this profile adds

Its real value is helping you capture the practical shape of the day: how attention held up, where switching felt expensive, and whether the day felt structured or overloaded.

Review language

How the review stays calm

The same broad review approach applies across profiles. What changes here is the tracking focus and the context that stays visible in later review.

Settled days
Settled read
Lower-change days
Settled read
Directional changes
Change-led review
Notable changes
Clear deviation
Sleep visibility: Lower logged sleep can make a day read less settled, especially when focus or pacing also felt strained.

Context modifiers

What this profile keeps visible

These are the broad context areas this profile is designed to keep visible.

ModifierNotes
Attention loadAttention load, interruptions, and switching friction can add practical context where those inputs are available.
Pacing and structureThe record can reflect whether the day felt structured, overloaded, or harder to restart than usual.
Regulation contextExtra context can help explain why a day felt hard without turning the profile into an assessment.
Core baselineThe core daily log carries the experience. Extra context adds shape where it is available.

Design rationale

Why the wording stays restrained

"The ADHD profile is there to make the day easier to review, not more clinical. It gives you better language for switching cost, overload, pacing, and recovery."

This profile is built around everyday ADHD self-tracking rather than formal assessment. It keeps the daily read practical and oriented around attention, execution, and regulation.

That makes it a better fit for users who want focus, pacing, and structure context kept in the record, not flattened into mood or energy alone.

The extra context is there to help the app preserve more of the real shape of the day where those inputs are available.

Review focus

What stays visible over time

Sleep and pacing Switching load Overload and restart friction Routine drift
Review note Longer review works best when there is enough logged history. The goal is to add context, not urgency.

Design inputs

Background reading behind the design

These sources informed the labels and context included in this profile. They are product-design inputs, not medical guidance, and DaySense does not use them to diagnose, treat, or recommend care.

Hvolby, A. (2015) 'Associations of sleep disturbance with ADHD', ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders, 7(1), pp. 1–18.
Cortese, S. et al. (2006) 'Sleep and alertness in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder', Sleep, 29(4), pp. 504–511.
Langberg, J.M. et al. (2020) 'Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry – medication adherence in adolescents with ADHD', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Becker, S.P. et al. (2024) 'Sleep health in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a narrative review', Sleep Medicine Reviews.
Drake, C.L. et al. (2013) 'Caffeine effects on sleep taken 0, 3, or 6 hours before going to bed', Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 9(11), pp. 1195–1200.

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