Decided to look at my Daylio year in review and well
Not in the know: Daylio is a journaling app that mostly you just tap buttons on, and optionally add comments
Well honestly it's a lot better than I expected.
I acknowledge this isn't great for colour blind people, sorry about that, it's just the better mood indicators for me and it is a personal thing. Teal to Red is "Rad", "Good", "Meh", "Bad" and "Awful"
Daylio is something I never thought I'd do, but I was going through a rough patch in late 2021, and saw FamilyJules talk about it and I thought it'd be useful to at least log things. Like pain hahahahaaaaaaaaa, which granted it doesn't do the best on but I at least can have a look on a bad day and see what pain category I gave it.
I normally bounce off these types of things, I've attempted to physically journal since 2018 but not one of them stuck for more than a few days. Daylio prompting me every day (and the next day) kind of meant I actually did it and well, here we are.
It's helped a lot though, there were a lot of days I've had where I've been feeling really down and opening Daylio kind of made me look back on the day and go "well no, overall you've been decent you just had a few things that impacted your mood" and I marked the day as "meh".
Hoping maybe this can help me self care more? Who knows, at least I have a view of things.