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How to Use the Water Intake Tracker

Set a daily water intake goal (based on your body weight and activity level), then log each drink of water throughout the day — the tracker shows running progress against the goal and saves the history in your browser to track consistency over time.

The Water Intake Tracker saves entries locally in your browser and shows daily progress — here's how to set it up.

Setting a personalized goal

Rather than defaulting to a generic figure, setting a goal based on your body weight and typical activity level (as covered in the guide on actual water needs) gives a more personally meaningful target to track progress against.

Logging throughout the day

Logging each drink as it happens, rather than trying to reconstruct total intake at the end of the day from memory, gives a much more accurate running total and makes it easier to notice and adjust if intake is falling behind the daily goal.

Frequently asked questions

Does the tracker account for water from food?

Most trackers focus on logged beverages specifically — as covered in the food-vs-drinking guide, food contributes meaningfully to total hydration too, so a tracked total slightly below the full goal isn't necessarily a sign of inadequate total hydration.

Is my logged data private?

Yes — entries are saved only in your browser's local storage, never sent to a server, keeping the data private to whoever has access to that specific browser and device.