+ Add → Bowel Movement.
Yes, really. It is a genuine digestive-health signal, it takes two seconds, and
we would rather ask than pretend it does not matter.
Three states, not two
This is the unusual part, and worth understanding:
The third is a real answer, and different from “none”.
“I definitely had none today” and “I did not think about it” are completely
different facts. Collapsing them would mean the app inventing zeroes for every
day you did not open it — and a chart of fabricated zeroes looks exactly like a
chart of real ones.
What to record
Whether it happened and roughly how many times. Optionally the Bristol type —
a standard seven-point scale describing consistency, with a plain-language note
beside each (“soft blobs, clear edges”). Useful if you are tracking gut health;
ignorable if you are not.
Why it is asked at all
Digestive regularity tracks with a lot: diet, hydration, stress, illness,
travel, and gut health generally. It is one of the cheapest signals available
and one of the least collected, because nobody builds it into a watch.
If this is not for you
Skip it entirely. Never logging it is a perfectly good
answer, and we fully expect it to be among the
least-used markers — which is itself one of the things we are measuring.