A mood tracker on its own
Tuesday was low. That is the whole record. Why it was low is in your memory, which is the exact faculty the chart was supposed to compensate for.
Mood tracking
Mood tracking that explains itself
Log how you feel in one tap, on the entry you just wrote. Because the mood is attached to the writing rather than logged on its own, every point on the chart comes with the reason behind it — a mood tracker and journal that are the same object.
The mood vocabulary
- Thriving
- Happy
- Calm
- Focused
- Neutral
- Anxious
- Low
Seven moods, one tap, on the entry you just wrote. No scale to calibrate, no questionnaire.
01 · The difference
A datapoint you can open
The same week, in two products. On the left the bar is where the trail ends. On the right it is a door back into what you wrote that day.
A mood on the entry
LowTuesday
“Third late night this week, and the same meeting is back on tomorrow.”
Every point on the chart links straight back to the entry that produced it.
A mood tracker on its own produces a line that goes up and down. After three months you have a chart showing that March was worse than February and no information whatsoever about why.
The fix is not a better chart. It is attaching the mood to a few sentences of context at the moment you record it, so that six months later “bad Tuesday” is one click from what actually happened on that Tuesday. That is why Compline does not ship mood tracking as a separate feature — it is a property of an entry.
Moods are on the free plan
Moods, tags and full-text search are included on every plan, including the free one — forever.
02 · In practice
What that buys you day to day
One tap while you are already writing, and the rest is reading — six ways back into your own record.
One tap, as you save
Tag any entry with a mood as you save it. No scale to calibrate, no questionnaire, and nothing extra to open — the mood lives on the entry you were writing anyway.
Every point opens its entry
Every point on your mood chart links straight back to the entry that produced it. A bad Tuesday is always one click from the reason it was bad.
Search the archive by mood
Filter and search your archive by mood — read every entry from a difficult fortnight in one go, rather than hunting for the dates by hand.
Your weekly shape
Mood by day of week and by month, which is where the rhythms you cannot feel from inside a single week become obvious.
Against last year
The same month, a year ago, next to the one you are in — so a bad stretch has something to be measured against other than how this week feels.
The last two are where it stops being record-keeping and starts being useful. Compline’s AI insights read the mood series alongside the text, so instead of “your Thursdays trend low” you get “your Thursdays trend low, and here are the six entries where you wrote about the same recurring meeting.”
03 · Limits
What mood data can and cannot tell you
Worth being straight about, because mood tracking attracts more over-claiming than any other feature in this category.
It can show rhythms you cannot feel
Weekly cycles, seasonal drift, the fact that a fortnight you remember as uniformly awful had four good days in it.
It can correct recency bias
It is good at correcting the bias that makes this week feel like how things always are.
It cannot establish cause
Higher mood in weeks you exercised is a correlation across your own data, and the arrow could point either way — feeling better may be what got you out of the door.
It is not a clinical instrument
Mood tracking here is for self-knowledge, not screening or diagnosis.
Compline reports correlations as correlations rather than implying otherwise, which is a deliberate choice about what a self-reflection tool should assert.
And if what you are tracking is worrying you, that is a good reason to talk to someone qualified — an export of your journal is a genuinely useful thing to bring.
Mood tracking questions
How does mood tracking work in Compline?
Each entry carries a mood you set in one tap. Because the mood is attached to writing rather than logged in isolation, every point on your mood chart links back to the entry that produced it — you can always click a bad Tuesday and read what happened.
Is a mood tracker useful without journaling?
Less than people expect. A standalone mood score tells you that something changed and nothing about what. Pairing the score with a few sentences is what converts a chart into an explanation, and it is why Compline does not ship a mood tracker as a separate feature.
Can Compline show which habits affect my mood?
Yes, on Bloom and above — that is what the correlation view is for. It compares habit completion against mood over time and reports the associations that hold up across enough days to be worth mentioning. These are correlations, not proof of cause, and Compline says so rather than overclaiming.
Start tracking with the context attached
Mood tracking is on every plan, including the free one, because a journal that cannot tell you how you felt is only half a record.
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