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How to log your period, symptoms and mood in Plum

By the Plum team · Checked against the app on September 19, 2026

Logging in Plum is meant to take a few seconds. Home asks one question a day, the answer is a handful of taps, and that is the whole routine. Everything below is what to do when you want more than that, whether it is fixing last Tuesday or cutting the list down to the four things you actually care about.

One thing surprises people who come from a journalling app. Plum records a day as choices, not sentences. There is no free-text box, so the record you build is a set of tick boxes that Plum can count and chart. That is what makes patterns show up in insights, and it is why the list of what you track is worth a minute of setup.

Period days are the part worth getting right. They are what Plum predicts from, so a missed start date moves your next expected period and a stray one moves it the other way. If you are bringing history over from another app, the Clue import fills those dates in for you.

Step by step

  1. Answer the card on Home. Home asks whether there is anything to note today and shows the things you track as tappable options. Pick what applies and tap Save. Add more opens the full list for that day.
  2. Use the calendar for any other day. Open Calendar and tap the date you want. The day opens for editing, you change what you like, and Save writes it. Clear all empties that day.
  3. Choose what you actually want to see. Open Me, then Customize tracking. Search or scroll the list, tap anything to add or remove it, and Save. Only what you keep here appears when you log.
  4. Check that your period days are right. Period days drive every prediction Plum makes, so they matter more than the rest. A day you marked by mistake comes off the same way you put it on.

Common questions

What can Plum track?

Twenty-seven things, sorted into Physical, Feelings, Leisure and Medication. Physical holds period, flow, spotting, pain, discharge, skin, hair, digestion, stool, breast, urine, hot flashes, vulva, sleep and air travel. Feelings holds feelings, energy, PMS, social life and cravings. Leisure holds sex life, exercise and partying. Medication holds oral contraceptives, pregnancy tests, ovulation tests and recreational drugs.

Can I write a free-text note about my day?

No. Plum records a day as choices rather than a paragraph, so there is no notes box to type into. If you want to keep your own words about a day, keep them somewhere else for now.

Which things does Plum track before I change anything?

Period and flow are always on, and feelings, sex life and exercise start on as well. Everything else waits in Customize tracking until you add it.

How do I log a period that already ended?

Open Calendar, tap the first day it started, mark it, and do the same for the rest. Plum recalculates your averages and your next expected period once you save.

Can I add periods from before I installed Plum?

Yes. Home has an add past periods screen for exactly that, and it is the quickest way to give a new account enough history to predict from.

How do I undo a day I logged by mistake?

Tap that day on the calendar and turn off what you added, or use Clear all to empty the whole day. Saving replaces what was there.

Does logging more make predictions better?

Period days do. Plum predicts from the start dates of the cycles you log, so a complete record of when bleeding started changes the forecast. Symptoms and moods feed the insights instead.

Do I have to log every day?

No. A gap is a day with nothing in it, and Plum does not read it as an answer. Nothing resets either. Plum counts a logging streak, but predictions do not depend on it.

Can my group see what I log?

No. A group sees your period dates, and your workout days if you track exercise. Symptoms, moods, flow details and test results stay with you.

Where did my old logs from another app go?

They come over only if you import them. Plum reads a Clue export today, and there is no import from other apps yet.

Still stuck?

Write to plumsupport@stickyricelabs.com and a person will answer, usually within a couple of days. Say what you were doing and what you expected. Leave health details out, we never need them to help.

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