Your own data
Mood & Energy Tracker
Three numbers, one tag and a sentence — twenty seconds a day. After a few weeks it will tell you more about your own rhythms than any generic forecast can.
Today's prompt
If today were a tarot card, which one — and why that one?
mood
Even
energy
Steady
clarity
Workable
Tags
In short
Log mood, energy and clarity in twenty seconds a day, tagged and matched to the moon phase, then read your own streaks, weekday patterns and drains against restorers.
- Energy and mood usually diverge before anything goes wrong — a run of high mood with low energy is worth noticing early.
- Weekday averages are often the most actionable output: a reliably bad Wednesday is a schedule problem, not a mood problem.
- Log the ordinary days. Only recording extremes produces a distorted picture of your own baseline.
- If you break the streak, log today rather than backfilling a week you cannot honestly remember.
20 sec
Time per entry
3
Scales tracked
~20
Entries before patterns
29.5 d
Lunar cycle length
Self-tracking predates the app store by several centuries. Benjamin Franklin ruled a grid of thirteen virtues and marked a dot against each failure daily; commonplace books, ships' logs and Victorian weather diaries all rest on the same instinct — that a memory of how the last month felt is far less reliable than a record of it.
Mood charting entered clinical use in the twentieth century for exactly that reason. Retrospective recall is heavily biased by the present moment: ask someone on a bad Tuesday how their month has been and they will describe a bad month. A daily line written at the time is immune to that.
Tying the log to the lunar phase is the astrological contribution, and it is worth being honest about it. The evidence for a lunar effect on mood in the general population is weak. What a moon-tagged log does reliably do is give you a neutral thirty-day frame to notice your own cycles against, which is useful whether or not the Moon has anything to do with it.
Questions Readers Ask
Where is my data stored?
Entirely in your own browser's local storage. Nothing is uploaded, and clearing your browser data removes it.
What do the scales mean?
One is the worst version of that day for you, five the best. They are personal scales, not a clinical instrument.
Can I log a past day?
Yes — change the date before saving. Try not to go back more than a couple of days.
Is this a mental health tool?
No. It is offered for reflection and entertainment and is not a substitute for medical or psychological advice.
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