Printable pill chart: a weekly medication chart to fill in

A pill chart is the simplest medication record there is: medicines down the side, days across the top, a tick when a dose is taken. It works on a fridge door, in a folder or on a phone.

How to fill it in

• One row per medicine per time of day. "Metformin, morning" and "Metformin, evening" are two rows, so a tick means one dose.
• Copy the name and strength from the label. The chart is for recording, not for working anything out.
• Tick when taken, cross when skipped, and write why in the margin if there was a reason.
• Start a fresh chart every week and keep the old ones for a month. They are the answer to "how has it been going" at the next appointment.

When a chart is not enough

• Several people in the house each with their own medicines.
• Medicines taken every few hours, or every few days, that do not fit a weekly grid.
• As-needed medicines, where the question is "when was the last one", not "was it taken today".

A list and a log on the phone handles those; a chart on the fridge handles the rest.

How Pillfolk does it

Pillfolk is the chart with the arithmetic done for you: each person's medicines with their schedule, what is due today by time, Take and Skip with the time recorded, and a History tab that shows doses taken per week. Print the medication list for one person or the whole household.

Pillfolk stores what you type. It never calculates a dose or gives medical advice. The web version sends no reminders.

Price: Free for one person. $14.99 once to add everyone else. No account.

• Open Pillfolk in your browser
• See a sample household first
• More about Pillfolk

Pillfolk stores what you type and shows it back as a list and a log. It never calculates a dose, suggests a timing, checks interactions or gives medical advice. Strength is shown exactly as you entered it. The web version sends no reminders.