After selecting your mood (a sliding scale from very unpleasant to very pleasant), the function asks you to describe your feelings by selecting from a list of words. For example, if you chose “Neutral” to describe your overall mood, you can elaborate on that emotion by selecting indifferent, calm, drained, peaceful, and so on.
Curious about how tracking my mood in this way could help my overall mental health, I called up clinical psychologist Chloe Carmichael, Ph.D. “This can help to expand your emotional vocabulary or even just stimulate you to translate your internal experiences into words,” she explained.
After that, you’ll select forces influencing your mood. There are many options here, including health, family, partner, work, money, current events, and many more.
This, Carmichael says, helps improve your situational awareness—especially if you go back and look at your data after logging. You’ll be able to spot patterns in which spheres of life tend to make you feel good and which ones don’t.
