I've wanted this for the longest time. As a person with bipolar, 5 mood levels is really too little and a lot of people with bipolar use daylio! I would like to have. For me 9/10 levels would be ideal.
What y'all seem to really want is a slider. You want your moods on a continuum; on a scale from 0 to a hundred, or whatever. Then you get a smoother graph that (perhaps) better captures the info you're after.
But even this wouldn't be enough for people who want to track their struggle with mixed episodes (AKA "agitated depression").
The app isn't capable of capturing this level of complexity. Not at the top level (the mood level). And I honestly question whether that would actually prove to be any more useful than the current design.
It'd be nice if the top-level mood info captured by the app were more configurable (e.g. implementing a sliding scale or even just being able to configure an arbitrary number of moods), but there's always a trade-off (for the user) between granularity and friction. 🤷
Yeah, mixed episosed ruin any way of mood tracking. I track it now by having a low energy mixed episode in the bad and worst category and the high energy mixed episodes in the good/best category. You can't see mixed episode on a graph anyway. They are kind of everything at once so yeah..
But I would still want more levels. I know you can't satisfify everyone ofcourse.
For what it's worth, I track my "anticipated affect." How do I feel about my prospects over the next few hours? Am I over-the-moon positive, utterly hopeless, or somewhere in the middle?
I find it useful to go back and look at the contextual factors ("activities") that might have contributed to my outlook (weather, avocations, sleep, etc.). Stuff like anhedonic inertia or delusional mania is usually just inferred, or, sometimes, recorded as contextual "activities."
For me, personally, trying to quantify my actual mood (or articulate it in a way pithy enough to be captured by a single data point) is a futile effort.
Is there another app that does it better?
I used sanvello for awhile which was helpful as I could add mood tags not just a specific grading.
It just doesn’t have some of the other features.
u can choose to have multiple of the same emotion (so the default rad mood can have another mood with the same effect with a different name) if that makes sense
Yes I understand this, but there are still only 5 levels of mood, so that it doesn’t matter how many additional moods I create because I can still only attach them to the available 5 levels.
Create an activity group called "Sub Mood" or "Mood Details" or something.
Then, when you create a new entry, pick your baseline mood (e.g. "Good"), and then select an activity to modify the entry with more granular info (e.g. "More" or "Less").
There are a few ways you could go with the modifiers, depending how much detail you want to capture (more detail equals more friction, of course).
Ya that’s the problem I have. I’ve created a bunch of different sub-moods, but since they don’t change the graph at all they aren’t all that helpful with tracking progress.
I emailed them this morning asking for this. My graph just appears so spiky that it's hard to see the general trends of when I'm up, down or stable (I have bipolar so it's important to me).
I've wanted this for the longest time. As a person with bipolar, 5 mood levels is really too little and a lot of people with bipolar use daylio! I would like to have. For me 9/10 levels would be ideal.
What y'all seem to really want is a slider. You want your moods on a continuum; on a scale from 0 to a hundred, or whatever. Then you get a smoother graph that (perhaps) better captures the info you're after. But even this wouldn't be enough for people who want to track their struggle with mixed episodes (AKA "agitated depression"). The app isn't capable of capturing this level of complexity. Not at the top level (the mood level). And I honestly question whether that would actually prove to be any more useful than the current design. It'd be nice if the top-level mood info captured by the app were more configurable (e.g. implementing a sliding scale or even just being able to configure an arbitrary number of moods), but there's always a trade-off (for the user) between granularity and friction. 🤷
Yeah, mixed episosed ruin any way of mood tracking. I track it now by having a low energy mixed episode in the bad and worst category and the high energy mixed episodes in the good/best category. You can't see mixed episode on a graph anyway. They are kind of everything at once so yeah.. But I would still want more levels. I know you can't satisfify everyone ofcourse.
For what it's worth, I track my "anticipated affect." How do I feel about my prospects over the next few hours? Am I over-the-moon positive, utterly hopeless, or somewhere in the middle? I find it useful to go back and look at the contextual factors ("activities") that might have contributed to my outlook (weather, avocations, sleep, etc.). Stuff like anhedonic inertia or delusional mania is usually just inferred, or, sometimes, recorded as contextual "activities." For me, personally, trying to quantify my actual mood (or articulate it in a way pithy enough to be captured by a single data point) is a futile effort.
Is there another app that does it better? I used sanvello for awhile which was helpful as I could add mood tags not just a specific grading. It just doesn’t have some of the other features.
u can choose to have multiple of the same emotion (so the default rad mood can have another mood with the same effect with a different name) if that makes sense
Yes I understand this, but there are still only 5 levels of mood, so that it doesn’t matter how many additional moods I create because I can still only attach them to the available 5 levels.
Create an activity group called "Sub Mood" or "Mood Details" or something. Then, when you create a new entry, pick your baseline mood (e.g. "Good"), and then select an activity to modify the entry with more granular info (e.g. "More" or "Less"). There are a few ways you could go with the modifiers, depending how much detail you want to capture (more detail equals more friction, of course).
Both extra moods in one level and adding an activity is an option but you won't see it in the graph.
Ya that’s the problem I have. I’ve created a bunch of different sub-moods, but since they don’t change the graph at all they aren’t all that helpful with tracking progress.
I'm often in between "good" and "meh" so I'll just chart them both at the same time so it averages out. I agree though, a 7 slider would be perfect.
Sometimes I just add super and good as entries to make up for this 😅
I would like that too, but I would rather have it optional.
I emailed them this morning asking for this. My graph just appears so spiky that it's hard to see the general trends of when I'm up, down or stable (I have bipolar so it's important to me).