The reconstruction problem is specific and predictable: it happens to almost everyone who stops tracking during the stable-feeling period in the middle of a long treatment journey, and it produces a specific quality of appointment conversation — vague, impressionistic, front-loaded with the last two weeks of experience, missing the pattern that only the previous eight weeks could have revealed. It's not a failure of paying attention. The changes were real — the patient lived them.
The problem is that unrecorded experience is hard to retrieve accurately at twelve weeks, and the things most worth discussing at the appointment — the slow shifts, the outlier weeks, the pattern that emerged over two months — are precisely the things that human retrospective memory handles least well. The fix is the minimal viable log: not a comprehensive journal, just three fields once a week. Dose taken yes or no.
One side-effect observation or 'nothing notable.' One sentence on what changed since last week. Two minutes. Those three fields at twelve weeks give you a timeline that a five-minute pre-appointment read converts into appointment-ready material.
One side-effect observation or 'nothing notable.' One sentence on what changed since last week.
The weeks where you wrote 'nothing notable' are as useful as the weeks where something changed — they establish the baseline that makes the change weeks legible. The goal isn't a perfect record. It's a recoverable one — enough structure that in twelve weeks you're not reconstructing from memory, you're reading from a source.
Titra is built around the minimal-viable-log principle — the weekly entry structure has three fields by design, not ten, because the field count determines whether the habit sustains past week three. A log you keep for twelve weeks is more useful than a comprehensive journal you kept for two.