Track lab results getbased does not recognize

getbased ships with a core schema of 196 markers across 19 categories, plus specialty-panel adapters. When you import a lab report that contains a result the app doesn’t recognize — a specialty marker, a newer test, or one with an unusual name — it is automatically created as a custom marker rather than discarded. You can also create custom markers by hand at any time.

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How custom markers are created during PDF import

When you import a PDF, the AI identifies any results that don’t match a known biomarker. For each unrecognized result it suggests:

• A category to place it in (e.g. biochemistry, hormones)
• A name for the marker in plain English
• The unit it is measured in
• A reference range (minimum and maximum) when the source report provides one

These suggestions appear in the import preview with a blue New badge. You can review each one before confirming — accept, adjust, or exclude any suggested marker before it is saved.

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Creating custom markers manually

You can create a new biomarker without importing a PDF:

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Editing custom markers

Custom marker definitions are set when first created and are not overwritten by future imports of the same marker. You can edit them at any time:

• Reference and optimal ranges — click the range values in the marker’s detail modal to edit them inline. If no ranges are set, a clickable “Reference: – – –” placeholder appears.
• Open-ended ranges — clear one side of a range using the × button to create a bound like “>59” with no upper limit.
• Name and unit — editable in the marker’s detail modal.

The public Suggest a better range action is for untouched built-in catalog ranges only. It is hidden for custom markers and personal or laboratory overrides.

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Grouping custom markers

Custom markers follow the same category system as built-in markers:

• Category — assigned when you create the marker manually or during import. Markers in the same category appear together in Labs and chart views.
• Moving a marker — open its detail modal, choose Change category, and select a compatible destination. This changes where it appears for the current profile without changing its values, history, notes, import mapping, or identity. Choose Restore original category to undo the placement.
• Renaming categories — click the category name in the category view header to rename it. The display label changes; the underlying key and all your data are unaffected.
• Category icons — click the icon next to any category name to open the emoji picker. The picker includes categorized tabs (Science, Health, Nature, Food, Objects), a search field, and a Reset button to revert to the default.

If a custom marker belongs to a category that does not yet exist, a new category is created automatically with an auto-inferred icon. The category picker follows the Labs sidebar order and shows categories already present in your profile first. It hides incompatible single-point/time-series destinations, the calculated-only category, and destinations that would create an internal key collision. Marker placements are included in export, backup, profile sharing, and sync, so reorganizing a profile does not require migration or re-import.

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Where custom markers appear

Once created, custom markers are treated identically to built-in markers throughout the app:

• Labs charts with reference range bands and trend detection
• Data tables alongside every other biomarker
• AI chat context — the assistant knows about your custom markers when Blood marker results are enabled in Manage → Context
• JSON backup — included in exports and restored on import
• Future PDF imports — the AI uses your existing custom markers to avoid creating duplicates

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Specialty lab pipeline

For non-blood tests (OAT, DUTCH, HTMA, fatty acids, and similar panels), the import AI assigns markers to test-type-prefixed categories (e.g. oatNutritional, dutchHormones) and adds a group field that determines Labs navigation placement. These groups appear as collapsible headers — for example, an OAT import creates categories like “Nutritional Markers” and “Microbial Overgrowth” organized under an OAT header. When the app ships a built-in specialty adapter for a test type you have previously imported as custom markers, those markers are auto-migrated to the structured adapter — your historical data is preserved and gains the adapter’s richer reference ranges and display names automatically.

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Custom markers vs. specialty lab adapters

Use custom markers for anything not yet covered by a built-in adapter — omega-3 index, deuterium levels, functional medicine panels, home monitoring devices, or any specialist test. If getbased later ships an adapter for that test type, your data migrates automatically.

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Deleting custom markers

To delete a custom marker and all its recorded values, open the marker’s detail modal and click Delete this marker at the bottom. If it was the only marker in its category, the category is removed as well.