RA Joint + Med + Flare Tracker

You know your body better than any clinical app gives you credit for. This is the 28-joint count rheumatology actually uses, turned into something you fill in daily, with a biologic-cycle-day formula so day 11 of Humira stops being invisible. Flares get logged in your own words, and 30 days fold into a one-page view your rheumatologist can read in 30 seconds.

What is in the drawer

One workspace for the daily tracking, plus a paper backup for the days when typing feels like too much.

Print & Editable Files

• Fillable PDF in A4 and Letter. One page, tick the joints, scale pain 0-10, write one trigger guess. By hand, no app needed.
• Printable card set for the fridge, the desk, and the clinic bag.

Digital Workspaces (Notion)

• Notion template with 7 databases: Joint Map (the 28-joint count), Daily Symptom Log, Med Log with the biologic timing formula, Flare Log, Rheumatologist Visit Prep, Brain Dump, and an AI Access Checklist.
• Severity 0-3 per joint, swelling vs tenderness vs both, morning stiffness logged in minutes.
• Biologic-cycle-day calculated from your last injection date, so the data sees day 11 of Humira.
• Flare log with a free-write trigger guess. Weather, infection, missed med, stress, food, overexertion, your period, or your own words. No clinical dropdown.
• A 30-days-into-one-page visit view with a 4-line summary and a 3-question rule that prints clean.

AI Scaffolding

• AI body-double helper: 5 RA-specific prompts with one-tap deep-links to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. The free tier of Claude works fine.
• AI Access Checklist database with 12 pre-seeded chronic-illness workspace categories (biologic insurance correspondence, FMLA, partner communication, and more) and a 4-state permission model.
• 1-page AI integration setup PDF with three paths: Claude.ai free, ChatGPT Plus, and Claude Desktop MCP.

Guidance & Support

• Welcome PDF from Wren, a warm walk-through for your first 24 hours.
• Step-by-step quickstart, 4 minutes 30 seconds, paced at 0.92x for brain-fog days.
• 30-Day Wren Email Support, 48-hour response.
• Lifetime Updates.

Why this drawer exists

The 1-star reviews on the clinical RA apps say it for you: too clinical, they miss the biologic-timing window, no room to write in your own words, and they export nothing useful for the visit. This is the patient-built workflow that fixes those things first, with the load kept low for flare days.

• The 28 joints rheum already uses, so your tracking and their assessment speak the same language.
• One trigger guess in your own words, not a forced clinical category, so logging takes seconds.
• Biologic-cycle-day done by formula, so you never do the date math on a hard day.
• A one-page visit view, so 12 weeks of data is something your rheum can actually glance at.
• A paper backup for brain-fog days, so the system bends to your energy, not the other way around.
• Unsettled areas like weather and diet are framed as your hypothesis to test, never as fact.

What this is not

• This is not medical advice. It is an organizational symptom-tracking workflow tool.
• It is not a diagnostic tool. It does not treat, manage, cure, or diagnose RA or any condition.
• It is not a substitute for clinical care. For individual medical advice, work with your rheumatologist.
• ACR frameworks are referenced as research context, never as clinical guidance.

Resources I would hand a friend at the kitchen table

(No affiliate links)

• American College of Rheumatology (rheumatology.org) - the source of the 28-joint count and the treat-to-target framework.
• Arthritis Foundation (arthritis.org) - plain-language patient education on flares, morning stiffness, fatigue, and bringing a log to every visit.
• CreakyJoints and ArthritisPower (creakyjoints.org) - patient-led research and real community data on biologic patterns and flares.
• Bateman Horne Center (batemanhornecenter.org) - energy-envelope and pacing principles that carry over to RA fatigue.
• National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society forum on HealthUnlocked (healthunlocked.com/nras) - a conversational international forum, strong on insurance and pre-auth questions.

The Fine Print

• Refunds: 30 days, no questions. Simply reply to your purchase email with the word "refund" or email wren@templatedrawer.com, and I will process it within 24 hours.
• Disclaimer: Template Drawer products are organizational workflow tools. They do not constitute legal, medical, or financial advice. Use alongside certified professionals. SIA Cyber Unicorn 40203002129.