How I Actually Use myStoria

From Carly, Head of Concierge

I'll be honest with you. I'm lazy about tracking. If an app asks me to tap through fifteen symptom toggles every morning, I'm not doing it. Not once, definitely not every day.

So here's how I actually use myStoria, as someone navigating peri menopause and a left knee injury that is currently running my life. No labour intensive tracking system, no spreadsheets. Just voice and chat.

I do my check ins and pretty much everything by voice

I usually checkin once a day. I do it either in the morning while I'm getting ready or at night while I'm winding down. Some days I do both, some days I only manage one, and yes, some days I miss it entirely.

When I miss a day, I just talk about yesterday in today's check in. I'll say something like "yesterday my knee was 6/10 pain and I only slept 5 hours, but today feels my knee pain is better at only 3/10." It picks that up and adds it to the storyline under the right date. I don't have to backdate anything or feel behind.

In the check in itself, I just ramble. How I'm feeling mentally, emotionally, physically. Any pain or symptoms (right now that's almost always something to do with perimenopause or my knee). Sleep, food, gut stuff. I don't follow a script. I just try to be specific about ...