Searchable food catalog
Type a food, pick it from the list, set the portion. Macros and calories populate automatically from a curated catalog — no manual data entry.
Food Journal
Food journaling patients will actually do.
Photo-first meal logging with AI-assisted macro and symptom tagging. Clinicians see trends, trigger foods, and adherence — without asking patients to count grams.
- Searchable food catalog
- Meal-by-meal logging
- Macro & calorie tracking
- Clinician dashboard
Food journaling is the therapeutic modality with the best evidence and the worst adherence. Patients hate it. Clinicians know they hate it. Three days in, the journal becomes a spreadsheet of uneaten guesses — if it survives at all.
Ona's food journal is built around the two things that actually move the needle: fast logging for patients, and a clean trend view for you. Search a food, pick a portion, save the meal. The clinic dashboard rolls those entries into daily and weekly charts you can scan before a visit.
01 · Why it matters
The best care plan fails if the log doesn't.
Patients keep journals when the tool respects their time. Clinicians read them when the data is already summarised.
Asking a patient to count grams by hand is asking them to become a dietitian for eight weeks. Asking them to search a food and pick a portion takes under a minute — and is a thing humans will actually keep doing past week two.
On your side, a week of entries rolls up into a dashboard of calorie and macro trends, meal patterns, and progress against the targets you set. Visits start at “let's talk about Wednesday dinners,” not “remind me what you ate last week.”
02 · What you get
Journaling that patients stick with.
Meal-by-meal structure
Entries are grouped into breakfast, snacks, lunch, and dinner. Patterns show up in the structure itself — not just the total at the bottom of the day.
Notes when it helps
Optional notes on any entry — “emotional day, comfort food” or “felt bloated afterwards.” The context patients want to share, without a required field.
Per-patient targets
Set daily calorie and macro targets per patient from clinical presets or by hand. Adherence is scored against the target you actually chose.
Trend charts, ready to read
Calories over time, macro distribution, and meal-pattern charts for any date range. Click a bar to jump straight to the day that caused it.
Pre-visit summary
The patient's recent journal sits alongside their chart. Open it on the way into the room and start the visit from what happened, not what they remember.
03 · How a week looks
From entry to insight.
Patient logs a meal
Open the portal, pick the meal, search for what they ate, confirm the portion. Most entries take well under a minute.The day assembles itself
Calories and macros add up as entries come in. Patients see a running total against the targets you set; no math required on their end.Trends emerge over the week
After a few days, patterns show up — low-protein mornings, late dinners, weekend spikes. The charts surface them without anyone having to hunt.You open the visit from the data
The clinic dashboard lets you scan the last week in seconds before the room visit. Conversation starts where it should: at the pattern, not the paperwork.
“I used to spend the first fifteen minutes of a visit reconstructing the patient's week. Now we start with the chart already on the table.”
04 · In practice
Where the journal proves its worth.
Weight management
Calorie and macro accountability without the shame spiral.
Patients see their own trends. Off-plan days show up as data, not a lecture — and the conversation next visit can be about why, not what.
Metabolic health
Macro distribution over time.
Protein, carbs, and fat balance across the week, alongside your targets. Useful for anyone working on insulin sensitivity, performance, or body composition.
Functional medicine
Notes plus food, side by side.
Encourage patients to leave a note when they feel off. Over weeks, the qualitative and quantitative start to tell the same story.
Pediatric nutrition
A parent logs, a child stays a child.
Parents record meals for younger children. Teens can log their own. The clinician sees the same unified view either way.
FAQ
Common questions.
How do patients log their meals?
Patients log through the portal by searching for a food and picking a portion. Macros and calories are pulled from a curated catalog so entries don't require manual gram counting.
Can I set dietary targets per patient?
Yes. Daily calorie and macro targets are per-patient, starting from a clinical preset or set by hand. The dashboard scores adherence against the target you actually chose.
What does the clinician view show?
A summary of the patient's recent journal with daily totals, meal-type breakdown, and trend charts across calories and macros. Date range is adjustable and click-through jumps into any specific day.
Does Ona integrate with wearables or CGMs?
Not today. Direct integrations with Apple Health, Oura, Whoop, and CGMs are on the roadmap; for now the journal is about the food side of the picture, and that's already enough to change most visits.
Is patient food data private?
Yes. All journal data lives inside your workspace, encrypted at rest and in transit, and is never used to train external models.
Ready when you are
Ask the thing you couldn't ask before.
“What did Wednesday look like?” — answered in thirty seconds. Book a fifteen-minute walkthrough.