Zendia is a self-improvement platform that blends journaling, to-do lists, wellness tracking, and AI to drive meaningful, measurable personal progress.
After you build the Custom Trackers to collect the data, you are ready to create Custom Charts showing the results. Custom Charts can help you understand the causes of some issues you are experiencing and how they affect other aspects of your day. You can also include Mood, Activities, and Symptoms Trackers to add to the outcomes on the Custom Chart.
But how do you organize a Custom Chart, and build it to show the information in a meaningful way? Let’s look at the Sleep Chart as an example:
When you review your sleep pattern, you can consider what made Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday so different from Monday and Tuesday. You can start to add other Trackers you have collected on top of this pattern to ask those questions.
For the most part, Custom Charts are tables that show a variety of foundational results (represented as bars) with other metrics laid over top of them that may have a causal effect (represented as lines).
It may take time to evaluate which elements are causally related to the results you are seeing. You may think of new data elements to add to the study to see what effects that data has on the results. These elements require thought, consideration, and perhaps some coaching from medical or other professionals with a background in the data you are studying.
To get started follow these steps:
1. Define the goal of the chart.
Think through what you are trying to learn or illustrate using the Custom Chart. Are you interested in what affects your energy level, pain, stress, or focus? Do you want to sleep better, exercise better, or make more time for friends?
2. Define the elements that affect that outcome.
Review the existing list of trackers to see which ones might impact the goal. Use the Mood, Sleep, Diet and Activity, and Symptoms Trackers and any Custom Trackers that you have created to see how they impact those goals.
3. Build a Custom Chart.
Use the instructions below to build a Custom Chart with the Trackers and data you have collected.
4. Try out some ideas. This is the fun part. Try adding different Trackers to see if different data shows up in the results. This helps you see patterns emerge.
5. Ask for some expert advice. Work with fitness experts, doctors, therapy practitioners, and anyone with advanced knowledge about the goals you are trying to achieve and see what they recommend as goals and elements.
For example, I started collecting Diabetic medical data using a Custom Tracker (Fasting Blood Sugar and Grams of Sugar Consumed) to build a picture of my overall health every week. I use the Fasting Blood Sugar numbers as the bar and the Grams of Sugar Consumed as the line to see how the level of sugar I consumed affected the Fasting Blood Sugar data I was collecting.
Zendia uses three elements to build each Custom Chart:
Metric (Tracker)
A Metric list contains all of the Trackers that Zendia provides (Mood, Sleep, Diet and Activity, and Symptoms) plus the Custom Trackers you create (such as Fasting Blood Sugar and Grams of Sugar Consumed). Review this list and consider which entries apply to the Chart you want to create.
Plot Type
The Plot Type describes where the data element appears in the Custom Chart. Since we are using a bar chart as a foundation, there are two options for creating the plot of the Custom Chart.
Multiplier
The Multiplier allows you to quantify two Tracker’s values in relation to each other. You cannot compare two data elements with different measurements and have a valid comparison.
When someone talks about sweating when it is 19 you know they live in a place where they use Celsius rather than Fahrenheit to measure the temperature. You can use the Multiplier to create a functional equivalent between these two measurement systems so you can compare the temperatures more precisely.
In the example we are going to discuss below, a person with Diabetes might create a Custom Chart using the data from the two trackers Fasting Blood Sugar and Grams of Sugar Consumed, to see how these two elements show up in the Custom Chart.
In each of these cases, the data for these Trackers is based on information collected on a single day, so the Multiplier for each of these metric trackers would be 1.
With these elements in mind, selecting the Trackers as Metrics, the Plot Type, and the Multiplier, you are ready to get started in building your Custom Chart.
To add a Custom Chart:
1. From the Snap Journal page, click the Insights icon.
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the button.
The Add New Custom Chart box displays.
3. In the Chart Title field, enter the chart's name and click the + Add Metric to Chart button.
You add the Trackers for the Custom Chart one at a time as follows.
4. From the Metric list, choose the first Tracker for the Chart.
5. From the Plot Type list, choose either bar or line.
6. In the Multiplier field, enter the multiplier you want to use for Tracker in the Chart.
7. When you complete these entries, click the + Add Metric to Chart to save this metric and add a new one.
8. Repeat steps 4 through 6 to add the second metric to the Custom Chart. Charts need to have at least two metrics.
You can continue adding new metrics if your multiplier relates to the bar metric you set.
9. When you have completed the chart metrics, click the Save button.
After adding data each day using the Daily Trackers, you have enough information to see the results in the Custom Chart at the end of the week.
