Import a case list from a document

A backlog is almost never text you can select. It is a list somebody else's software produced — usually a PDF you saved to Files. This is the lane for turning that into cases.

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   There is no format to follow

   No “one case per line,” no example row, no “put the date first.” You are holding a list you did not design, and telling you to reformat it would be handing you our problem. The reader's job is to read what you have.

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   Paste it, or import the file

   “Import a PDF” reads a file on this device and puts what it found into the same box you would have pasted into. That is deliberate: you see the text before anything becomes a case, in a box you can edit. A file import that silently turns into rows is a file import you cannot check.

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   Answer the year, if the dates do not

   Optional year chips ask which year these belong to when the dates are ambiguous. Your answer outranks any guess the reader would make, and skipping the question is a real answer rather than a dodge.

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   Review is where it becomes cases

   The review screen says honestly what it could read and what it could not. Nothing is written until you accept it, and anything it is unsure about is shown to you rather than filled in quietly.

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   It will not re-log what you already have

   The import is compared against the cases already on your device, so a list that overlaps what you have logged does not double it. Cases already on your official list are held out too.

The document and the text read out of it are the densest patient data the app ever touches. They live in that screen while you are looking at them and nowhere else — not written to a file by Capnolog, not logged, not sent anywhere.