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Condition prep

How long, with a date.

When something has dragged on, the useful question is what changed and when. Ojava keeps the start date, the temperature readings, what you took, and how the last few episodes went, so the visit starts with a timeline instead of an estimate.

Free to start, no card. Everything you import stays exportable and deletable.

Visit brief
Day of illness
Day 9
Highest recorded temperature
100.8 F
Turn for the worse
Day 7

3 questions ready to ask, and 3 gaps named rather than filled in.

Read together
  • Onset date
  • Temperature notes
  • What you took
  • Prior episodes
One brief
What this page prepares

Four lanes,and four clear limits

Each lane turns something you already have into something you can hand over. None of them decides anything. The line under each card is the specific thing that lane refuses to do, written the same way on all nineteen condition pages.

Start your record
  • Day by day timeline

    A single line from first symptom to today, with temperatures, sleep and anything you noted alongside them.

    No infection is identified and no test is ordered.

  • What you have taken

    Everything you logged, when, and what you wrote about the effect, ready to be read out in one go.

    No antibiotic guidance and no medication recommendation.

  • Prior episodes

    How often this has happened before, and how long each one ran, from your own record.

    No frequency is called normal or concerning.

  • Questions to bring

    The two or three worth asking, given what the timeline actually shows.

    Never a reason to delay care. If it feels urgent, get seen.

The brief it builds

What is on it,and what is missing

Every figure below was computed from a record you imported or entered, the same way each time. Nothing here is estimated to fill a hole, and where the record is thin the page says so instead of smoothing it over.

Build yours
Colds and sinus infections briefDraft, updated today
Day of illnessDay 9
From the first symptom you logged, not an estimate
Highest recorded temperature100.8 F
Entered by you on day 6, evening
Turn for the worseDay 7
You noted improvement on day 5, then a change

Example screen, with illustrative values.

Still missing
  • No temperature entered for the first four days
  • Previous episode has no end date recorded
  • No note about whether anyone at home had the same thing
Questions to bring
  • The improvement then the change on day seven: does that matter?
  • What would you want me to watch for over the next few days?
  • Is there anything I should have recorded that I did not?
How it works

Three steps,then it is quiet

Setup is a file and a permission, not a project. After that the work is invisible: things arrive, get read, wait for you, and become a page you can hand to someone in the ten minutes you actually get.

ImportedPDF, XML, CSV, ZIPIn reviewyou accept or correctOn the briefdated, with its source
  1. Bring in what you already have

    A lab PDF, a records file, a health export, or the food and training you are already logging. The type is detected from the file itself and each type has its own parser.

  2. Review it before it counts

    Extracted values are checked back against the source text and the result waits in review. Nothing joins your record until you have seen it, and anything wrong can be corrected by hand.

  3. Walk in with the page, not the memory

    The brief is a summary of what happened, what is missing, and what to ask. You take it to your own clinician, who makes every decision that follows.

Worth writing down between visits
  • The first day you felt it, and the first day you logged it
  • Any temperature you took, with the time
  • Sleep, and whether it broke
  • What you took and what happened afterward

References

What this page is built on

Published guidance and reference sources behind the education on this page. Ojava uses them to explain and organize, never to diagnose or treat.

Review sourcesHide sources
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2015.

Supports structured symptom and record organization as part of a collaborative diagnostic process with clinicians.
QuestionBuilder App

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2026.

Supports preparing questions before appointments and saving those questions for the visit. It is not a substitute for clinician review or emergency care.
Laboratory Tests

MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025.

Supports lab-prep reminders that food, medicines, instructions, and timing can affect results. It does not support ordering tests or changing medicines.
The common cold

Heikkinen and Jarvinen, 2003.

Supports cough and upper-respiratory education around symptom timing and supportive context. It does not make Ojava an infection diagnosis, contagiousness, or treatment service.
Where the line is

General wellness,stated plainly

Ojava brings your own data together, explains what markers generally mean, shows how yours have moved, and helps you write down questions before an appointment. That boundary is not a limitation being worked around. It is the design, and it is why the product can be honest about what it knows.

  • Name a condition, or tell you what you have
  • Prescribe, dose, or change a medication
  • Order a test, or read one as safe or unsafe for you
  • Suggest you delay or skip seeing a clinician

If something concerns you, speak to a clinician. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.

Next

Start with one file you already have.

A lab PDF, a records export, or the food and training you are already logging. The brief gets more useful with each thing you add, and the first one costs nothing.