User interface features for a diabetes management application

A computer-implemented method for contextualizing manual entries of blood glucose measures for a patient into a patient log of a portable computing device, comprising:

• administering, by the computing device, a structured collection procedure, where the structured collection procedure specifies two or more collection actions for obtaining blood glucose measures from a patient;
• generating, by the computing device, a reminder notification for a given collection action of the structured collection procedure;
• displaying, on a display of the computing device, a data entry interface upon receipt of an acceptance input from a user in response to the reminder notification, where the data entry interface includes a first input for a blood glucose measure and a second input for specifying a type of collection action associated with the blood glucose measure, such that value for the second input is defaulted to the given collection action from the reminder notification.
• receiving input via the data entry interface from the user of the computing device, including a value for a blood glucose measure in the first input;
• and
• creating a data entry in a patient log using the input received from the user, the patient log residing in a data store on the computing device.