4 Ways to get the most out of your Insights

 

image showing the correlation between being In Nature and Energy Levels and Average Mood
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Note. To view this report, visit the Insights tab and rotate your phone.

❗1. Collect Your First Week Of Data

After a week of using Bearable, you may unearth insights along the lines of; There’s a strong relationship between high Mood scores and spending time in nature.

You’re probably thinking something like; That’s not very insightful!

There’s actually a lot that we can learn from this insight and it underpins the way in which anyone can get the most out of Bearable: The quality of your insights will only be as good as the quality of the data you collect.

So how do you start collecting better data?

🤓 2. Ask Questions About Your Insights

By asking questions about your insights you can begin to uncover what they really mean.

    1. Why is your mood score low when you’re not in nature?
    2. What are the other factors associated with being in nature?
    3. Why does your mood improve so much when you’re in nature?

By asking these questions you can begin using your Insights Reports to try to answer them. For example, you could look at your factor effect on mood report* to uncover the Factors associated with low mood scores.

If you’re not able to find answers, it may be because you need to create some custom Factors that are unique to you.

🔧 3. Refine & Customise Your Factors

Custom Factors allow you to create tracking for almost anything that you want so that you can begin to answer the questions you have about your Insights.

You could begin to track factors associated with being in nature, such as:

    1. Exercise
    2. Screen time
    3. Sleep habits
    4. Who you socialise with
    5. How much you’re working
    6. Weather conditions

Whilst the insight that “spending time in nature has a positive effect on mood score” isn’t a revelation. It may enable you to unearth the more granular factors impacting your mood.

🚀 4. Start Using Your Data IRL

Now that you’re tracking your custom factors, you can begin to identify patterns. You might start to see that:

    1. The amount of exercise you get has a positive impact on your mood.
    2. That your mood is lower when you socialise with certain people.
    3. That weather conditions have a big impact on your mood score.

You could use this information to form new habits that improve your mood. For example, you could test different exercise routines to determine which one has the biggest impact on your mood score.

Or, If you’re tracking factors related to symptoms of a health condition, you could also share the data with a medical professional.

Ultimately, by taking this approach you can begin to make choices – driven by data – to help impact your overall wellbeing.

*If you want to know more about some of the features available to Bearable premium users, you can read about them here.

✋ Looking For More Info?

    1. Check out our support blog for answers to common questions.
    2. Chat with other Bearable users on our discord server.
    3. Take a look at our blog to see how Jesse learns about his health with Bearable.

Remember, if you’re not sure what questions to ask about your insights; We have a dedicated community on Reddit.

The community is a group of other users and people with a wide array of health conditions that may have already found interesting ways to customize the app, question their insights, and improve their Health Outcomes. You can post questions to the community on Reddit AND even search for posts by users with similar goals to you.

Visualising your health data in many forms

Once you’ve made a few entries it might be useful to know all of the ways you can visualize your data with Bearable:

📊 Comparison Graph

One of the best ways to spot patterns is by using our comparison graph.  Access this by rotating your phone on the Insights Page. 

You can then compare your Mood, Symptoms, and Energy Levels to anything else, such as; Sleep, Water Intake and Health Measurements like Steps and Heart Rate (plus any custom measurements you’ve created). 

You can also highlight days with certain Factors (including medication) by pressing the “Select Factor” button in the top menu.  

image showing the effect of sleep on stress
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🗓️ Calendar

See how your Mood or Symptoms change over time via the Calendar button on the homepage. 

You can highlight days with certain factors here too by pressing the “Select Factor to Highlight” button at the bottom of the page.

image showing a calendar view of mood tracking
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📝 Timeline

If you want to see your entries listed out in more detail, including things like additional notes, visit the timeline by pressing the 3 horizontal lines in the top menu of the Homepage. 

There is a quick filter at the top of the timeline page for you to immediately just see e.g. only your mood entries.  To type a keyword search and go into more detail you can press the magnifying glass icon.   There is also the option to export these entries by pressing the Share icon in the top menu.

image showing the timeline view of symptoms, moods, meds, and other health tracking in the Bearable interface
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💎 More detailed insights

Once you’re ready to gain deeper, more detailed insights you can unlock premium. 

This will give you access to unique charts and correlations, such as the % effect each factor has on your Mood, Symptoms, and Sleep, plus how these change based on time of the day/week.  

You’ll also be able to view reports for individual Symptoms (under Symptoms Breakdown) and Factors (under Factor Count) for more specific insights.

image showing an example of advanced mood reports including an Average Mood Per Day Graph
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image showing an example of a symptom score report including Associated symptoms and average symptom levels
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As always feel free to reach out to our community on Reddit or Twitter for more advice, support, and inspiration. 

✋ Looking For More Info?

    1. Check out our support blog for answers to common questions.
    2. Post questions on our subreddit or chat with users on our discord server.
    3. Take a look at our blog to see how Jesse learns about his health with Bearable.

Getting started – Personalising Bearable


Thanks for joining the Bearable community!

I’m James, the founder of the Bearable App.  I’m here to help you on your journey towards reclaiming control over your health and wellbeing.

Here are a few quick tips to help you get started:

🏠 1. Edit your Homepage

Use the “Edit” button at the bottom of your homepage to hide, unhide and reorder the different tracking options in Bearable. Lots of our users suggest starting out by tracking just a few important things and then adding more options over time.

For example, you could begin by tracking just your Mood, Symptoms, and Factors. Then, over time, you could add Sleep, Energy, Nutrition, and Custom Ratings.

📝 2. Add Custom Factors and Categories

Personalize your tracking further by adding new Factors and Categories.  This can be done by clicking the “Add/Edit” button in the menu in the top right corner of the Factors section on your Homepage.  In time you’ll be able to see how each Factor impacts your Mood, Symptoms, Energy levels, Sleep, and more! 

For example, you could add your friends, colleagues, and family in the Social Category if you’re interested in discovering who really makes you happiest, or perhaps who makes your headaches worse!

❤️ 3. Import your Health Data

Interested in importing health data like Steps, Weight, and Heart rate from your device?  Go to the Health Measurements section and tap “Sync off” next to any item to connect to either Google Fit or Apple Health.  If you choose to sync your Sleep data, this will show up in the Sleep section on your Homepage.  

You can even create your own unique Health Measurements by pressing “Add Health Measurements” at the bottom of the section then “Create Custom Measurement”.   This is just one of our premium features.

I hope these tips help you start to make Bearable more insightful and relevant to you.  I’ll be back with more soon!

💡 Don’t forget to reach out to our community on Reddit or Twitter for more advice, support, and inspiration. 

Using the same Bearable account on multiple devices

For the time being our app is designed to work and sync seamlessly on one device. This is what most of our users require, but we understand that some people could really benefit from being able to sync Bearable on multiple devices.

We do indeed have plans for multi-device capabilities (i.e. instant updates across devices), but this is very complex to implement, hence why you usually only see it done by bigger companies (e.g. Google Docs, etc.).

In the meantime, to make sure you get the best experience possible, please use Bearable on one device. Using multiple devices simultaneously can lead to data conflict issues and thus result in data loss. We plan to make this much clearer to users in the very near future with a warning message when a new device is detected to make sure there is less uncertainty around the issue.

To clarify you can still move permanently to another device, simply by logging out of device A and staying logged in on device B, you just can’t be logged into both simultaneously.

Change units of measurement (e.g. Weight and Temperature)

On the homepage, simply click on the “ADD HEALTH MEASUREMENTS” at the bottom of the Health Measurements section.

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⚖️ Weight

Click on Weight, and you’ll see the option to change from kg (kilograms) to lbs (pounds).  Note that this will not convert any previous manual entries you have made in kilos (and vice versa), it will only convert previous auto-synced entries.

🌡️ Temperature

Click on Temperature and you’ll see the option to change from Farenheight to Celcius.  Again, this will not convert any previous manual entries you have made.

🩸 Blood glucose

You can also change Blood glucose from mmol/L to mg/dL.

 

Still need some help? Get in touch with our Support Team.

Bearable isn’t opening properly anymore

In some very rare cases, users have experienced a constant loading screen or crashing upon opening the app.

The first thing to try is uninstalling and reinstalling Bearable (don’t worry you won’t lose any data).

If this does not work then please email us at support@bearable.app detailing exactly what happened and when it happened.   We have backups for all accounts, so we should be able to restore your account to an earlier working date.

Sync with other devices & apps (e.g. Samsung Health, Garmin & Fitbit)

We’re currently working on plans to offer direct integrations with devices such as Fitbit & Garmin watches, Oura rings, and apps such as Samsung Health.

BUT In the meantime, we can give you some instructions as to how to link some of these to Google Fit and Apple Health:

1. Fitbit

For Android & iPhone

You can now sync a number of health metrics directly from Fitbt, including; Resting Heart Rate (RHR), Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Sleep, Steps, and weight.

To sync any of these metrics from Fitbit:

    1. Click the profile icon in the top left-hand corner of your home screen.
    2. Scroll down to the Customise section and click on Sync with Fitbit.
    3. Then tap on any of the metrics you’d like to sync from Fitbit.
    4. You’ll then be able to select Fitbit as the source to begin syncing this data directly into Bearable.
    5. When setting up this integration, you might also be taken to a page within the Fitbit app to finalise the process.

Note. For syncing any metrics that can’t be integrated directly with Bearable:

    • Android users can use the Fit2Fit app and follow their instructions for syncing Fitbit data via GoogleFit.
    • iPhone users can use apps like IFTTT and Sync Solver to sync Fitbit data via AppleHealth.

2. Samsung Health

For Android

The app will ask you to sync Google Fit to Samsung Health, or go in the other direction and sync Samsung Health to Google Fit.   Be aware that if you choose the latter option, you should make sure that you have disabled steps and activity tracking in Google Fit or it could lead to some data conflict issues.

Note: Health Sync will sync your data 4 times per hour, though you can increase or decrease the syncs per hour to up to 6 times per hour.  Health Sync is free to use for the first week, but after that, you will either have to subscribe to the app or purchase it for a one-time fee.

For iPhone

If you want to use a Samsung tracker (such as the Samsung Gear) with an iPhone, you will need to download the Samsung Health App for iPhone.  The Samsung Health App will auto-sync the steps data to Apple Health.  Apple Health is where Bearable will receive your steps data.

3. Garmin

For Android

See above – the same steps apply here as for connecting Samsung Health.

Remember, if you sync using the HealthSync app,  you should make sure that you have disabled steps and activity tracking in Google Fit or it could lead to some data conflict issues.

For iPhone

According to Garmin, Garmin Connect Mobile (GCM) version 2.6 and above provides support for the Apple Health Kit.

Once Connect sharing is enabled in Health, the steps data will begin syncing with Apple Health after each successful device sync in Connect Mobile. Please note that, at this time, data is shared with Apple Health while the Connect Mobile app is in the foreground. If the app is closed or sent to the background, the transfer of data will not complete until there has been a successful sync with the device while the Connect Mobile app is open.
 

Follow these steps to enable sharing:

    • Open the Apple Health Kit app.
    • Go to your profile (top right icon).
    • Tap Apps
    • Tap Connect
    • Toggle to enable the data you want to collect, e.g. steps.
You should then be sure to fully sync your Garmin tracker with the Connect app before opening and restarting Bearable. (Again, syncing must be completed fully while the Connect app is in the foreground, or your data will not be shared.)
 
 

4. Oura

 
For Android
 
It’s relatively simple to connect to Google Fit, check out Oura’s website here.
 
 
For iPhone
 
Similarly, you can use the same method to connect Oura pretty easily.  For full instructions check their website.
 
 
Still need some help? Get in touch with our Support Team.

Health Sync not working properly

Here are some instructions to follow for each platform if your synced data, such as; steps, sleep, heart rate etc. are not being correctly uploaded to Bearable.

Android 

    • First, make sure that the relevant toggles are turned on in Bearable in “Google Fit data” on your ‘Profile’ page.

    • Make sure Bearable is properly synced by opening Google fit > Click on the profile tab in the bottom menu > settings button > manage connected apps.  You should see Bearable there, if it’s not then you did not give Bearable permission when it was originally asked in the app.  

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Note: you might have a few email addresses connected to Google Fit, make sure the one listed at the top of this page is the email address you gave permissions to in the Bearable app.

If this is not working then follow the following steps:

    • Uninstall the Bearable App (you won’t lose any data).
    • As shown above, go to connected apps in Google Fit and press disconnect.
    • Reinstall Bearable, log in to your account and you should be asked to give permissions again to Google Fit, make sure to allow all of these.   As above, make sure you give permission to the correct email address that has the health data on Google Fit.

iPhone

    • First, make sure that the relevant toggles are turned on in Bearable in “Apple Health data” on your ‘Profile’ page.

 

    • Make sure Bearable is properly synced by opening Apple Health Kit > Click your profile icon (top right) > Apps > Bearable should be there.  You can click here to see which permissions are set up.

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If this is not working then follow the following steps:

    • Uninstall the Bearable App (you won’t lose any data).
    • Reinstall Bearable, log in to your account and you should be asked to give permissions again to Apple Health Kit, make sure to allow all health data permissions you want to sync.   

Sync with Google Fit or Apple Health

Google Fit:

IMPORTANT – Make sure you choose the correct email address on the initial “Choose an account” screen i.e. the one that you are signed into Google Fit with, as this is where your data (e.g steps, heart rate etc.) will be pulled from.

    • Navigate to your ‘Profile’ in the top left-hand corner of the home screen.
    • Click on “Google Fit data”
    • You’ll then see a few permissions screens.  Make sure to press “Allow” for all of these and then confirm these selections on the final screen.

 

  • You can confirm that Bearable is now properly synced by opening Google fit > Click on the profile tab in the bottom menu > settings button > manage connected apps.  You should see Bearable there.  Click on Bearable to make sure all permissions have been given.  It should look like this:

  • Everything will then be automatically turned on. You can then manually turn off the toggles for data you don’t want Bearable to fetch for Google Fit.
  • Go back to the homepage and look for the Health Measurements section.  You’ll now see all of your synced data being shown. If not, restart the app and it should show up after being nudged into action again.

Apple Health

    • Navigate to your ‘Profile’ in the top left-hand corner of the home screen.
    • Click on “Apple Health data”
    • You’ll be greeted with a permission screen.  Turn on the toggles for the data you want to sync.

  •  You can confirm that Bearable is now properly synced by opening Apple Health Kit > Click your profile icon (top right) > Apps > Bearable should be there.  You can click here to see which permissions are set up.
  • These will then automatically be turned on in Bearable.
  • Go back to the homepage and look for the Health Measurements section.  You’ll now see all of your synced data being shown. If not, restart the app and it should show up after being nudged into action again.

Note – These instructions are for setting up sync for the first time.  If you have already denied permissions the first time, you may have to uninstall Bearable and reinstall to be asked for those permissions again (on Apple).  On Google you will need to uninstall Bearable and disconnect Bearable from your list of connected apps in Google Fit – then when you reinstall Bearable you should be asked for the permissions again.

Still need some help? Get in touch with our Support Team.

Can I change to 12h clock format?

We’ve had a lot of requests from the lovely folk across the pond to change to a 12-hour format, instead of 24-hour military time. 

It’s actually hard to display extra text (i.e am and pm) in such a small space without making it ineligible, given our current designs,  hence why we don’t have this yet.   We also have times in a lot of different places, so it would be a big redesign job to sort this out optimally.

However, we are already considering the best way to make a 12-hour option in the future.  Thanks for your patience!