Individual Entry Tracking

When to use it

Daily exports give you one summary file per day. Use Individual tracking to cite one event or link to a specific workout. You can also link a mood entry to a weekly review.

This is on top of the daily export, not instead. With both on, you get both kinds of files.

Two-step setup

The settings UI is intentionally a two-step funnel:

Master switch. Turn the feature on globally.
Per-metric selection. Choose which metrics get individual files. Most people do not want a file per heart-rate reading (10,000 / day), but they do want one per workout (~1 / day).

Quick actions

Enable Suggested Metrics

Sensible defaults: mood, symptoms, workouts, blood pressure, blood glucose. The metrics where one-file-per-entry actually makes sense.

Enable All Metrics

Everything. Be careful, this can produce thousands of files per day.

Disable All Metrics

Clears the per-metric selection without flipping the master switch.

Folder structure

Entries Folder

Vault-relative path where individual files land. Default: entries.

Organize by Category

If on, entries are nested under category subfolders (entries/workouts/, entries/symptoms/). If off, all entries sit in one flat folder.

Filename template

Default: {date}_{time}_{metric}. Available placeholders: {date}, {time}, {metric}, {category}. Example output:

{vault}/entries/ ├─ workouts/2026_07_14_0920_workouts_workouts_71000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000008.md ├─ symptoms/2026_07_14_0916_symptom_headache_symptom_headache_71000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002.md └─ vitals/2026_07_14_0918_blood_pressure_blood_pressure_71000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000004.md

Canonical source-backed entries append the selected metric and lowercase HealthKit UUID after the configured filename. This keeps the same source record stable across reruns and prevents same-minute collisions. UUID-free compatibility entries retain the shorter legacy filename behavior.

Heads up.

Only categories with an enabled metric in Health Metrics appear here. Enable a metric there first. Then return here to select per-entry tracking. Before you automate paths, read the source-record identity contract and generated filename matrix.