How to Read Your Drinking History

The History tab is where you see what your drinking actually looks like over time, not just for tonight. It packs a monthly overview, a trend graph, a calendar heatmap, and a session list into one scrollable screen. This tutorial walks through what each piece shows you, how they cross-reference each other, and what changes when you use Sober Mode.

# Step 1. Open the History tab

Tap the History tab in the bottom navigation bar. The screen loads with the current month in the Monthly Overview carousel at the top.

Below the carousel, the sections stack in this order: the Trend graph, the Units by Day calendar heatmap, a Check-in notes section (only once you’ve written notes in Sober Mode daily check-ins), and the All Sessions list. Scroll the page to move between them.

If you haven’t logged a session yet, History counts your alcohol-free days instead: “N Sober Days since you installed AlcoLog”, with the calendar below it. On the day you install, it simply reads “No sessions logged yet.”

# Step 2. Read the monthly overview

The carousel shows one month per card. Swipe left or right to step from the first month you logged a session through to the current month. Months in between with nothing logged still get a card: it shows “-” in every row and is dimmed.

Each card lists Sessions, Drinks, Units, Calories, and Cost (one cost row per currency if you’ve paid in more than one). A red up arrow means that number went up versus the previous month; a green down arrow means it went down; a blue dash means no change or no previous month to compare. A 🎊 appears next to the month name when every number went down.

If Sober Mode is on, or you’ve ever done a daily check-in, each card adds two rows: Sober days and Check-ins. For sober days, more is better, so an up arrow there is green.

# Step 3. Watch the trend graph

The Trend section is a line chart with a range picker on the left (1M, 3M, 6M, 1Y, All) and metric icons on the right: 📅 sessions, 🍻 drinks, μ units, 🔥 calories, 💰 cost. With Sober Mode or check-ins, a 🙂 mood metric joins them and plots your check-in mood from Awful to Great. When you pick cost and have spent in more than one currency, a row of currency chips lets you choose which one to chart.

The solid line (Actual) is the value per period; the dashed line (Avg) is a rolling average so you can see the direction without the noise.

Tap the chart to open it fullscreen in landscape. Tap the collapse button in the corner to close it. In the 1M range you can swipe left and right on the chart to step between months.

# Step 4. Read the calendar heatmap

The Units by Day heatmap shows every day of a month. Use the arrows beside the month name to change month. A drinking day shows its units (for example 4.2μ) on a teal cell; the more units, the stronger the color. Today has a teal outline.

Sober days show a 🏆 trophy. From the second day of a run, the trophy gets a running count, so 🏆 ⭐5 is the fifth sober day in a row. Your best-ever run sits in the legend under the calendar as 🏆 ⭐ N days, next to the Less to More color scale.

What a tap does depends on whether you use Sober Mode:

• Without Sober Mode or check-ins, tap a drinking day to jump to its session in the All Sessions list. Tap a past sober day to turn it off if you drank that day and didn’t log it, so your streaks stay honest.
• With Sober Mode on, or once you’ve done a check-in, each day that has a check-in gets a small mood dot in its corner (amber if you logged a drink that day), and the legend adds “Mood at check-in. Tap any day for its mood, note and session.” Tapping any day up to today opens that day’s sheet. It shows your check-in mood (for example “Great day”, or “Had a drink”) with your note, a Cravings card listing each one you rode out (“Rode out a craving at 9:14 PM”), a Sessions card with a Show link to each session, and, on eligible days, the Sober day switch.

# Step 5. Drill into a session

The All Sessions list at the bottom of the page shows every session you’ve logged, newest first. Tap the month heading to open Jump to Month and pick a month. Each card shows the date, time range, duration and units, with calories, cost and any medication doses below.

Tap the chevron on a card to expand it. You get the session timeline and the Drinks Logged list, with Add drink and Meds buttons. Tap a drink’s pencil to edit it, or tap its X and confirm Delete to remove it. The session totals recalculate immediately.

To delete an entire session, tap and hold its card, then tap Delete Session. This permanently removes the session and all its drinks, and they drop out of your monthly overview, trend graph and heatmap.

That’s the full picture: the carousel gives you the month, the graph gives you the trajectory, the heatmap gives you the rhythm, and the list gives you the detail.

# What’s next

History is the descriptive view; understanding your AlcoScore is the analytical one. To take your history out of the app, see exporting your data.