Journal Common Questions

We’ve compiled answers to the most frequently asked questions about Journal.

Journal is designed to help you track your daily habits and better understand how those behaviors impact your Sleep and Recovery over time.

For example, if you’re unsure whether something like a weighted blanket, caffeine timing, or late meals are helping or hurting your sleep, Journal allows you to quantify those effects using your Bevel data.

Journal Insights are built from your logging patterns:

• After logging at least 5 “yes” and 5 “no” entries for a specific habit, Bevel will begin to show its impact in the Insights section

• The more consistently and accurately you log, the more meaningful and reliable your insights will become over time.

• These insights reflect correlation, not causation

  • For example: if walking 10k+ steps is associated with lower Recovery, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s harmful—it may be influenced by other factors like travel, stress, or fatigue.

To get the most accurate and useful insights:

• Log entries throughout the day as events happen

• Stay consistent: gaps in logging can reduce insight quality

• Be mindful that Journal works best when paired with your real daily habits, not occasional entries

• Many metrics are automatically synced from Apple Health:

  • X+ steps

  • X+ mins of cardio

  • X+ mins of daylight

  • X+ mins of strength

  • X+ mins of zone 2

  • X+ dB sleeping noise

  • X+ stress score

  • X+ nutrition score

  • Mindfulness session

  • Morning sunlight (auto)

  • Naps

  • Target strain overreached

• Some habits are automatically synced from the Nutrition log and allow manual input within Journal:

  • Added sugar

  • Alcohol

  • Caffeine

  • Calcium

  • Hydration

  • Late Meal

  • Magnesium

  • Vitamin A

  • Vitamin B-12

  • Vitamin B-6

  • Vitamin C

  • Vitamin D

  • Vitamin E

  • Vitamin K

  • Zinc

• Some habits are automatically synced from Cycle and allow manual input within Journal:

  • Abdominal cramps

  • Menstruation

• Other habits require manual input within Journal

  • Acupuncture

  • ADHD medication

  • Alcohol

  • Anti-anxiety medication

  • Artificial sunlight

  • Ashwagandha

  • Birth control

  • Breathing exercises

  • CBD

  • Chiropractor

  • Cold Shower

  • Compression Therapy

  • Creatine

  • Cupping

  • Daily Mood

  • Dairy

  • Dairy Free

  • Fever

  • Fish oil

  • Foot bath

  • Gluten free

  • Hot tub

  • Ice bath

  • Injury

  • Intermittent fasting

  • Keto diet

  • Low carbs

  • Marijuana

  • Massage therapy

  • Masturbation

  • Morning sunlight

  • Ovulation

  • Pain medication

  • Percussive therapy

  • Physical therapy

  • PMS

  • Pregnant

  • Probiotic

  • Red Light therapy

  • Sauna

  • Seasonal allergies

  • Sexual activity

  • Sickness

  • Sleep medication

  • Talk therapy

  • Tobacco

  • Tumeric

  • Vegan diet

  • Vegetarian diet

  • Weight-loss medication

• Nighttime-specific habits that require manual input in Journal.

  • Animal in bedroom

  • Blue light glasses

  • Cooling mattress

  • CPAP machine

  • Device in bed

  • Ear plugs

  • Gravity blanket

  • Humidifier

  • Melatonin

  • Mouth tape

  • Nasal strip

  • Reading in bed

  • Shared bed

  • Sleep interruption

  • Sleep mask

  • White noise machine

Some metrics are interpreted as binary:

• Numeric entries (e.g., caffeine, supplements):

  • Any value greater than 0 = Yes

  • 0 = No

• Hydration:

  • Yes = you met your daily goal

  • No = you did not

Note: If you want something recorded as a “No,” you must explicitly log it as 0

• A Journal “day” runs from when you wake up → until your next wake time

• Nighttime entries include everything that happens before sleep and overnight until you wake up again

For habits you don’t log frequently, you can set default values:

1. Go to Journal.

2. Tap the “…” (top right corner).

3. Select Set Default Entries.

4. Choose the default state for each habit.

These defaults will automatically apply to each new day.

Bevel offers reminders to help you stay consistent:

• Evening Reminder:
  Prompts you to reflect on and log your day before bedtime. 

Manage in: Profile → Notifications → Journal

• Morning Reminder:
  Prompts you to log habits from the previous night
  Manage in: Profile → Customization → Journal → Reminders

• Streak Reminders:
  Receive alerts when you maintain consistent logging over time

Manage in: Profile → Customization → Journal → Reminders

You can tailor Journal to your needs:

• Manage data sources (e.g., Apple Health for caffeine, alcohol, supplements)

• Set and adjust your Daily Water Goal

Manage in: Profile → Customization → Goals → Daily Water Goal

This reflects a correlation, not a cause-and-effect relationship. Higher step counts may coincide with other factors like fatigue, travel, or increased activity levels that impact recovery.

This tracks your exposure to daylight within the first hour after waking, based on Apple Health’s “Time in Daylight” data.

This is directly sourced from Apple Health’s daylight tracking. Bevel uses Apple’s definition for this metric.

You can customize thresholds here: Journal → “…” → Customize Journal → Tap the gear icon on a tag

Log it in the Apple Mindfulness app, and Bevel will automatically sync the data into Journal.

Bevel uses Apple Health’s State of Mind API, which requires writing data to Apple Health in order to display it properly in Journal and Insights.

• Yellow = Journal is partially complete

• Green = All entries for the day are complete

Yes: Journal → “…” → Set Default Entries

Yes: Journal→”...”→Customize Journal→Custom→”+”

Not currently, custom tags are limited to yes/no inputs.

Not currently. Journal entries must be logged manually or through connected data sources like Apple Health.