How to track mood beside daily activities
Choose an activity, record a quick mood rating before it, then add a second rating afterward. The activity can be ordinary: working, resting, taking a walk, doing chores, spending time outside, making something, or seeing another person. Ordinary moments often make a tracker easier to sustain than rare, dramatic events.
- Rate your mood just before the activity begins.
- Add the activity and an optional short note for context.
- Rate your mood afterward without trying to produce a better score.
- Review several entries together rather than judging one moment.
What the comparison can—and cannot—show
Once you have recorded at least three moments, the summary calculates the average difference between your before and after ratings. An activity receives its own comparison after two entries. A positive number means later ratings were higher in the moments you logged; a negative number means they were lower. That is a description of your entries, not proof that the activity caused the change.
Sleep, expectations, relationships, health, timing, and many other factors can sit beside the same moment. Use the result to form a smaller question—“Do short walks often feel different on workdays?”— rather than a fixed conclusion.
Keep the log light enough to use
A useful log does not need every hour of every day. Pick one or two activities you are genuinely curious about and record them consistently for a short period. Notes should preserve context, not become a second job.
Your browser is the storage
This frontend-only tool saves its activity log in local browser storage. There is no account or cloud sync. Use the clear control to remove the log, and remember that browser cleanup or private mode can remove it automatically.