The LifeWell blog
The LifeWell blog is the writing that sits beside the product: forty-seven posts on keeping a record of a life, covering health tracking, nutrition, fitness, pregnancy and babies, mental health, family relationships and the software questions underneath all of it. Posts are filed by subject and searchable, the newest is always at the top, and every one of them is also carried in full by a plain RSS feed. Nothing here is medical advice — it is the reasoning behind a tool for writing things down, and the honest limits of what writing things down can do.
What people use it for
Working out what is worth recording at all
The first month of any record is guesswork, and most people track either everything or nothing. Several posts here work through what is genuinely worth noting for a given goal — hydration, weight, a cycle, a baby's feeds — and, more usefully, what can be skipped without losing the thread. Knowing what to leave out is what makes a record survive past week three.
Understanding a number before reacting to it
A BMI figure, a body-fat percentage, a heart-rate zone and a macro split are all easy to measure and easy to misread. The explanatory posts say what each number does and does not tell you about a person, where the common thresholds came from, and at which point the honest answer is that a clinician has to look at it rather than an app.
Holding a family record somebody has to hold
Blood groups, allergies, who is related to whom, which relative saw which doctor and when — in most families this lives in one person's memory. The family posts cover building a tree when half of it is missing, recording uncertainty as uncertainty, and staying connected to people across distances without turning it into another chore.
Deciding whether to trust an app with any of this
The technology posts are the ones about us: where data is stored, what syncing actually does between devices, what happens when you are offline, and what a backup to your own Google Drive changes about who controls the files. They are written to be checkable rather than reassuring.
Questions
Is any of this medical advice?
No. Everything here is general information about tracking and about the app. It does not diagnose, treat, prevent or interpret any condition, and it is not a substitute for a clinician. Where a post mentions a range or a threshold, that is reference information, not a judgement about any particular person.
Do I need a LifeWell account to read the blog?
No. Every post is public, needs no account, and is readable in a browser or through the RSS feed. The posts that describe LifeWell features naturally assume you might use them, but nothing is gated.
How do I follow new posts without giving you an email address?
Use the RSS feed at /feed.xml. Your reader fetches one file from this site on whatever schedule it chooses; no address changes hands, there is no newsletter, and there is nothing to unsubscribe from. There is also a readable version of the same list at /feed.
Who writes these?
The LifeWell team — in practice a very small one. Posts about the product describe what it actually does at the time of writing rather than what is planned, and where something has changed since publication the post carries an updated date.
Are older posts kept accurate?
Corrected rather than quietly deleted. When a factual claim stops being true — a backend that moved, a sign-in method that no longer exists — the sentence is fixed and the post's modified date moves. Posts that describe a past release stay written as history, because that is what they are.
Can I search or filter the archive?
Yes, and both live in the address bar. Choosing a category or typing in the search box updates the URL, so a filtered view is a link you can send to someone and a refresh puts you back exactly where you were.
By Ahsan Mahmood · updated 2026-07-31
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