Health Journal Is Here
Use Pencil and the new Health Journal to track your food, movement, and wellness with live data from your Apple Watch.
Your Apple Watch tracks everything. Move calories, exercise minutes, stand hours. But that data lives in the Fitness app, disconnected from the rest of your day.
Health Journal brings your activity rings into Penbook.
Your live Activity data appears directly on your journal pages, updating in real time as you move through your day. But unlike the Fitness app, you can pick up Apple Pencil and journal right next to your rings. Write what the numbers don't capture: how you felt, what you ate, why today was hard or great.
Daily Health Journal
A journaling page with your activity rings built in. The rings pull directly from HealthKit, so they fill themselves as you move through your day. Below them: sections for Food, Activity, and Wellness. One goal at the top to set your intention.
It's a place to connect the numbers to the story. What did you eat? How did you feel? What made today a good (or bad) day for movement?
Monthly Activity Spiral
Your whole month, unwound into a spiral. Each day is a segment showing Move, Exercise, and Stand progress. Patterns emerge that you can't see day-to-day. That week you crushed it. That week you didn't. Make notes and get better over time.
Your monthly chart will change with each day, and slowly fill in. It's a great motivator to keep moving.
Why Keep a Health Journal
Fitness apps are great at collecting data. They're less great at reflection.
Health Journal gives you a reason to look back. Not just at numbers, but at context. The rings tell you what happened. The journal helps you understand why.
Digital Data, Paper Feel
There's something satisfying about seeing your live activity rings sitting on what looks and feels like paper. Real data, updating in real time, but surrounded by your own handwriting.
You can scribble notes right next to your rings. Circle a day on the spiral and write why it mattered. Draw an arrow from your Move goal to a note about that morning run. It's the best of both worlds: the precision of HealthKit, the warmth of a journal. Your watch collects the data so you can give it meaning.
So if you haven't downloaded Penbook yet, go to the App Store and give free trial a go.
