Vibe checks & 2 things
I used to use an excellent app called How We Feel. A few times a day, it sends you a push notification asking to check in, and you just tap one of four quadrants: high or low energy and pleasant or unpleasant. You can add more data too.
But I of course wanted to pull this into Congruence. Now, four times a day, it sends me a notification which brings me to this screen:
I select one of the boxes, optionally add an annotation (below) and I’m done.
The selected color shows up in the smiley face on my schedule (see the yellow one?):
And I can go into the Streaks view and see the history:
It’s really cool to visually skim how I was feeling month-over-month. When I look back I can see clear periods that corresponded with different life events.
How We Feel has a similar-ish view — you should get the app and try it out for a few months. I’ve found it really useful in retrospectively noticing trends and making decisions.
Somewhat adjacent to this, I have a practice where every night I write down at least two things that made me happy or I really enjoyed that day. I’m just a few months away from ten years of doing this.
I also strongly recommend this practice. It’s very cool to look back at random days and see what I was excited about. And of course, it’s now in Congruence.
My evening checklist each day links to a “2 things” module, where I enter in my two or more items for that day. (This module is also Face ID protected.)
I can then look at dots for every day in the past, and tap on them and see what I recorded that day.
Next up: barcodes & Freedom Phone. (Blog post coming soon…)