diff --git a/src/components/card/commit-history.tsx b/src/components/card/commit-history.tsx
index 5a0a6e1..63d16b4 100644
--- a/src/components/card/commit-history.tsx
+++ b/src/components/card/commit-history.tsx
@@ -49,15 +49,25 @@ export function CommitHistory({ commits }: { commits: CommitRecord[] }) {
               className="mt-[7px] h-1.5 w-1.5 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-border-strong"
             />
             <div className="min-w-0 flex-1">
-              <p className="text-sm text-text-secondary">
-                {/* Fall back to the raw subject — never render nothing. */}
-                {commit.summary || commit.subject}
-              </p>
+              <div className="flex items-baseline gap-2">
+                <p className="text-sm text-text-secondary">
+                  {/* Fall back to the raw subject — never render nothing. */}
+                  {commit.summary || commit.subject}
+                </p>
+                {commit.source === "manual" && (
+                  <span className="shrink-0 text-[10px] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-priority-medium">
+                    Logged
+                  </span>
+                )}
+              </div>
               <p className="mt-0.5 text-[11px] text-text-muted">
                 {relativeTime(commit.authored_at)}
               </p>
 
-              {showRaw && (
+              {/* No real diff or hash sits behind a logged entry — showing one
+                  anyway, even honestly labelled, would be the fabrication this
+                  feature deliberately avoids. */}
+              {showRaw && commit.source !== "manual" && (
                 <p className="mt-1.5 rounded bg-surface px-2 py-1.5 font-mono text-[11px] text-text-muted">
                   {commit.url ? (
                     <a
diff --git a/src/components/dashboard/recent-activity.tsx b/src/components/dashboard/recent-activity.tsx
index 5a13f41..b47ed22 100644
--- a/src/components/dashboard/recent-activity.tsx
+++ b/src/components/dashboard/recent-activity.tsx
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ export function RecentActivity({ commits }: { commits: CommitRecord[] }) {
             <p className="min-w-0 flex-1 text-sm text-text-secondary">
               {commit.summary || commit.subject}
             </p>
+            {commit.source === "manual" && (
+              <span className="shrink-0 text-[10px] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-priority-medium">
+                Logged
+              </span>
+            )}
             <span className="shrink-0 text-[11px] text-text-muted">
               {relativeTime(commit.authored_at)}
             </span>
diff --git a/src/components/linking/unassigned-list.tsx b/src/components/linking/unassigned-list.tsx
index 3f53a6e..ec43bc6 100644
--- a/src/components/linking/unassigned-list.tsx
+++ b/src/components/linking/unassigned-list.tsx
@@ -72,7 +72,13 @@ export function UnassignedList({
                   {commit.subject || commit.short_sha}
                 </p>
                 <p className="mt-0.5 flex items-center gap-2 text-xs text-text-muted">
-                  <code>{commit.short_sha}</code>
+                  {commit.source === "manual" ? (
+                    <span className="text-[10px] font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-priority-medium">
+                      Logged
+                    </span>
+                  ) : (
+                    <code>{commit.short_sha}</code>
+                  )}
                   <span>{relativeTime(commit.authored_at)}</span>
                   {commit.type && commit.type !== "other" && (
                     <Pill tone="neutral">{commit.type}</Pill>
@@ -82,7 +88,9 @@ export function UnassignedList({
               </div>
 
               <label className="shrink-0">
-                <span className="sr-only">Attach {commit.short_sha} to a card</span>
+                <span className="sr-only">
+                  Attach {commit.source === "manual" ? "this logged entry" : commit.short_sha} to a card
+                </span>
                 <select
                   defaultValue=""
                   disabled={pending}