I don’t know if this is in your blog anywhere because I have not checked yet, but what are you using for your journal app or software needs now? Do you feel the CBT helpers found in many popular apps are necessary?
I'm using Daylio for my mood journal. It's private. I use it every day, sometimes multiple times per day. (I _always_ use it when a significant emotional event happens.)
I love it because I can explicitly pick my mood based on five options (rad, good, meh, bad, awful), can create and pick unlimited additional identifiers to associate with each journal entry, and can see reports showing me not only my average mood for the month/year but also which identifiers corresponded to what mood.
Example. I slept well today, felt really good, wrote code, spent time with my wife and worked out. So in my entry today I picked the "Good" mood (internally a 4/5), then picked the "good sleep", "home", "sunny", "time together", and "wrote code" identifiers. I also have a custom identifier called "do i need alone time" wherein I can pick how badly I need it on a scale of 0-2. I didn't feel like I needed time alone, so I picked "0". Then I wrote my entry.
At the end of the month, Daylio will send a push asking me if I want to see how I did this month. In that report, I'll be able to see a line graph of my mood along with the number of times I selected identifiers like "good sleep" or "time together", in descending order.
It would be REALLY powerful to connect these entries to Apple Health, as I track my sleep and what I eat. This would answer questions like "how does my mood change when I cut carbs to 150g/day max and 1800 cals/day max? how long does it take for changes to set in?" or "how does my mood affect how much I can push it in the gym, or vice versa?"
For my work journal, I track that in Git and have Alfred shortcuts to make that easy.
> It would be REALLY powerful to connect these entries to Apple Health, as I track my sleep and what I eat. This would answer questions like "how does my mood change when I cut carbs to 150g/day max and 1800 cals/day max? how long does it take for changes to set in?" or "how does my mood affect how much I can push it in the gym, or vice versa?"
Aye captain - tis what I'm working on. We should zoom sometime.
