A shoulder noted on Saturday, a lemon on Sunday, the shoulder again on Wednesday. Each note was filed, but in three different drawers: you never saw them together. The timeline puts them side by side, and signals tell you when something keeps coming back.
What changes
- The dog's timeline. The dog file's journal becomes one stream, grouped by week: runs and races with their note, lemons and oranges, per-dog notes, pairs, the debrief signs, the return and meal check, care, blood panels, weigh-ins. Each line leads to the screen that corrects it. Four filters: All · Health · Runs · Remarks. On the phone (the dog file's health carnet) and on the website (Health tab). The CSV export follows the same stream.
- Signals. Six simple rules look at what you noted:
- the same check point, on the same side, twice in ten days;
- three lemons in fourteen days;
- appetite, stools or urine noted twice in a week;
- the same lab value outside the lab's range on two panels in a row;
- the same debrief sign (gait, motivation…) twice in ten days;
- several different things noted for one dog in the same week (a check point, a lemon, a sign, an injury, a weight drop).
- Where they show. In Today on the phone, in the Dogs card of the dashboard on the website, and at the top of the dog's timeline. The lines that make up a signal carry a mark on their edge; "See the entries" shows only those.
- "Seen". The signal is put away until a new note reopens it.
What others see, and what never leaves the kennel
The timeline and the signals are read inside your kennel, by its members. Marking a signal as seen stays with the owner and handlers. Nothing goes to the club, the public leaderboard or a share card.
What it does not do
- No diagnosis. A signal says "this keeps coming back, have a look", never "the dog has". It sets no rest, no injury and no vet visit for you.
- No email, no notification. A signal shows when you open the app; it does not ring.
- Your free notes are not read. They are in the timeline, but no rule searches them for words.
- No timeline of the whole pack. The whole-pack view is the list of signals in Today; the timeline belongs to one dog.
Three choices made against the obvious
Signals don't read text. Searching notes for "limping" or "off his food" would be tempting. But notes are in several languages, abbreviated, sometimes ironic, and a signal you can't explain ends up ignored. That's why the check exists: what matters is said in a box, and the rule can say exactly what it saw.
A signal doesn't ring. A weak signal that sends a notification becomes noise, and noise makes people switch off the real reminders, for vaccines or care. Here it waits until you open the app.
"Seen" only lasts until next time. Putting a signal away for good would silence the next repeat, which is exactly what you want to see. A new note reopens it.