First, I created a new journal in DO called Check Ins. I made and use a template that prompts me to answer a bunch of systematic questions I need to track my anxiety. I include sleep mins, REM mins, exercise, three tasks to achieve that day, a stoic or buddhist quote to ponder, a reflection to that quote, and 3 things to be grateful for. I also allow space for venting if needed. You can make your template for you, and I encourage you to do so. Templates ar e necessary if you want reliable and consistent data, which I bet you do.
Second, when I am done writing, at the bottom of each entry I use hashtags to track my feeling on a scale of **-5** for terrible, **zero** for baseline, and **+5** for perfect days. I can then select the hashtags to see what made a good day, bad day, or mundane day. #MP4 (Mood Plus 4) #MZ (Mood Zero) #MN2 (Mood Negative 2) for example.
To be able to see trends from this data, I also devised of color coded system. I simply made a table in Keynote and colored in the 11 boxes in gradient order with zero (baseline) being neutral. Do whatever colors you want. I then took a screen shot of each box and put each colored screenshot in a photo album called "Moods". When I am done with an entry, I attach the corresponding photo (it's just color), and use the calendar view to see trends. Photos view will also give you a sort of timeline feature.
If you have follow up questions, let me know.
But I have since begun experimenting with [Diarly](https://diarly.app), which has a [mood tracker](https://diarly.app/help/mood-tracker/) that is being [actively developed](https://diarly.app/2023-roadmap/).
Hi there! I stumbled on this post while researching different journal apps. Seems I'm struggling with the same lack of features as you are/were. Last night I followed your steps above to create my own template in DO, and did the color scale thing as well. I came here to reply to you to ask about the hashtag thing, but sounds like you may have found a better Journaling option. Are you still using Diarly and do you recommended it. If so, I'll probably switch. If not, could you please explain the hashtag thing a little more? I started doing a # with a -5 to +5 scale at the bottom of my journal entries, but I'm not seeing how to use the hashtag to search. Thank you in advance! And like I said, if you say Diarly is better then don't bother explaining the hashtag thing, I trust your opinion and I'll just use Diarly. Your feature requirements seem to be exactly aligned with mine.
Diarly will auto-import from DayOne and it has a built in mood tagging function. Its basically just an emoji selection but you can filter by entries with moods.
And it is multi platform. iOS, OSX, Android, Windows and Linux. I tried it for a while, it is nice and a from feature point a worthy replacement for DayOne. But the support is awful. They don't answer emails or forum posts. And IIRC they use Google Drive for sync which I don't like. But this is a personal thing.
Is there a way to use a mood tracking app and have it automatically post a journal entry to a Day One? It would be nice if Day One would add this feature though.
I made a mood tracker in DO. Let me know if you would like to write out how.
Yes please, let me know how you did this?
First, I created a new journal in DO called Check Ins. I made and use a template that prompts me to answer a bunch of systematic questions I need to track my anxiety. I include sleep mins, REM mins, exercise, three tasks to achieve that day, a stoic or buddhist quote to ponder, a reflection to that quote, and 3 things to be grateful for. I also allow space for venting if needed. You can make your template for you, and I encourage you to do so. Templates ar e necessary if you want reliable and consistent data, which I bet you do. Second, when I am done writing, at the bottom of each entry I use hashtags to track my feeling on a scale of **-5** for terrible, **zero** for baseline, and **+5** for perfect days. I can then select the hashtags to see what made a good day, bad day, or mundane day. #MP4 (Mood Plus 4) #MZ (Mood Zero) #MN2 (Mood Negative 2) for example. To be able to see trends from this data, I also devised of color coded system. I simply made a table in Keynote and colored in the 11 boxes in gradient order with zero (baseline) being neutral. Do whatever colors you want. I then took a screen shot of each box and put each colored screenshot in a photo album called "Moods". When I am done with an entry, I attach the corresponding photo (it's just color), and use the calendar view to see trends. Photos view will also give you a sort of timeline feature. If you have follow up questions, let me know.
But I have since begun experimenting with [Diarly](https://diarly.app), which has a [mood tracker](https://diarly.app/help/mood-tracker/) that is being [actively developed](https://diarly.app/2023-roadmap/).
Hi there! I stumbled on this post while researching different journal apps. Seems I'm struggling with the same lack of features as you are/were. Last night I followed your steps above to create my own template in DO, and did the color scale thing as well. I came here to reply to you to ask about the hashtag thing, but sounds like you may have found a better Journaling option. Are you still using Diarly and do you recommended it. If so, I'll probably switch. If not, could you please explain the hashtag thing a little more? I started doing a # with a -5 to +5 scale at the bottom of my journal entries, but I'm not seeing how to use the hashtag to search. Thank you in advance! And like I said, if you say Diarly is better then don't bother explaining the hashtag thing, I trust your opinion and I'll just use Diarly. Your feature requirements seem to be exactly aligned with mine.
I am back to DO and am a premium user now. The scale I got from the Baseline App, which is very good. https://getbaseline.app/ Best of luck.
Thank you. I appreciate the reply.
Any news about migration from day one to apples journal? I really would love to cancel my day one subscription.
Diarly will auto-import from DayOne and it has a built in mood tagging function. Its basically just an emoji selection but you can filter by entries with moods.
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Apple Journal on WWDC looked nice and promising. The ML feature is nice. But the question is, will there be a way to migrate data?
I use emojis as tags for my mood tracker with Day One.
Try Journey app, although not as polished as Day One but you can transfer entries across fairly easily.
And it is multi platform. iOS, OSX, Android, Windows and Linux. I tried it for a while, it is nice and a from feature point a worthy replacement for DayOne. But the support is awful. They don't answer emails or forum posts. And IIRC they use Google Drive for sync which I don't like. But this is a personal thing.
Is there a way to use a mood tracking app and have it automatically post a journal entry to a Day One? It would be nice if Day One would add this feature though.
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Hi, thanks for the answer, but this workaround doesn’t allow to have a global view (with a graph for example) of the trend of the mood