# Give your AI a notebook: how I keep my cancer care in Notion AI only knows what's public. What matters most for your care isn't. I keep it all in a Notion notebook that my AI writes to and reads from before it answers anything. Start with 3 pages. ![Article illustration](https://kevinwimer.com/media/b2eaa756-37d2-432b-9efe-51b28c31519a) Author: Kevin Wimer Canonical URL: https://kevinwimer.com/cancer/resources/ai-health-notebook/ Stable ID: 2a74a16b-3c6d-458f-a871-c95e0b847f58 Revision: f44b9124-cf4a-43bc-97a2-3d0e8b5c798a Published: 2026-10-27T18:02:51.853Z Updated: 2026-10-27T18:11:21.665Z Reviewed: 2026-10-27 ## Who this is for For patients and caregivers juggling several doctors, trials or treatment options who want one place that holds the whole story, so their AI can use it and they can find things fast. AI only knows what's public. The stuff that matters most for your care isn't: what your doctor said last visit, when a symptom started, what the trial nurse told you on the phone. So I keep it all in one notebook. Mine is in Notion, and it's 20+ pages now. My AI writes to it and reads from it before it answers anything. If you only set up one thing from these guides, make it this one. Everything else gets better once your AI knows your story. ![My Notion cancer hub. A Quick access table has three columns. Start Here: To Do, Appointments and Doctor Questions, My Profile. Strategy and Treatment: Current Strategy, Personalized Vaccines, Tissue, Sequencing and Biopsy Planning, Imaging and Treatment Response, Trials and Future Treatments, Treatment Options, Promising and Watchlist, Strategy Archive. Records and Research: Symptoms and Events, Detailed Symptom Log, Important Dates, Contacts, Company Ledger, Conversations, Company Backburner. Orange arrows point to Detailed Symptom Log, Trials and Future Treatments, Company Ledger and Conversations. Caption: What no AI model knows on its own.](/media/1ffda0e4-0e5b-4f0f-b055-fcd29e2681cc) ## Start with 3 pages If you're starting from zero, don't build 20 pages. Start with 3: 1. **Symptoms log.** What, when it started, when it stopped, pain 1-10. 2. **Visit notes.** What each doctor said, plus questions for next time. 3. **Options.** Every treatment or trial anyone has mentioned, and who said it. That's it. You can add pages when you need them. ## Let your AI do the logging None of mine is by hand. One AI finds new trials, and another helps me research treatments. When one's worth tracking, they add it to the notebook and label it for me. After an appointment, the important parts get logged there too. (Here's [how I record every appointment](/cancer/resources/record-every-appointment/).) The point isn't a pretty database. The point is that the next time I ask a question, my AI already knows what happened last time. ## Fast answers during calls The notebook is also my fastest lookup. When someone on a call needs a detail like my HLA type, I don't dig through portals and old emails. I ask my AI, and it pulls it from the notebook while I'm still on the phone. That matters more than it sounds when you're on a stressful call. ## Why it's worth it **Each doctor sees their own slice. Your AI sees all of it.** I see a lot of doctors. Nobody else has the whole picture in one place. My notebook does, and that's what lets my AI catch things no single visit would. ## Keep going - [Record every appointment](/cancer/resources/record-every-appointment/) and let AI log what matters. - [Connect your real records with ChatGPT Health](/cancer/resources/chatgpt-health-medical-records/) so your AI sees your labs and scans too. - [Ask AI about your health with rules, not open questions](/cancer/resources/ask-ai-about-your-health/) - [Get your reports, raw data and sample details](/cancer/resources/medical-records/) - [Use AI to do the paperwork and research](/cancer/resources/ai-cancer-research/) - [AI and your care](/ai-your-care/) I'm not a doctor and this isn't medical advice. It's what's working for me. Please talk to your care team before you change anything. ## Limits and context One patient's personal setup, not medical advice. A notebook is only as good as what goes into it, and AI can still misread or mislabel things, so check what matters against the original record. Decide for yourself what health details you're comfortable storing in any app. ## Relationships and disclosures No paid placement. I use Notion as an ordinary user. I have no investment, advisory role, paid partnership or other financial relationship with Notion. ## Sources - [My Notion treatment tracker](https://x.com/kevinace/status/2112908143244063084) — Kevin Wimer on X; experience; checked 2026-10-27; Personal experience, read in Kevin's supplied X export. Not independent clinical evidence. Topics: ai-your-care, records Capabilities: Related record IDs: af2e7c15-d7c9-4b91-af55-0a9a764eb515, 9f20f130-cad1-494e-bf40-bd02d30f01cd, 892119f9-0439-4e43-b467-66c99bc7be7c, 5209b08a-d248-40cd-bad2-dc8bf8518a23, eb3bb171-b7b6-4a5e-9466-bcab2b26f1c9, a2420711-3cbc-4edc-868b-da3c4dcd5bef Follow Kevin on X: https://x.com/kevinace Educational information, not an individualized treatment recommendation.