Mood trackers

[danaeris]

So, I was looking for ways to track all that data I wanted to gather. Here's what I found in my search.

MoodViews: this tracks the moods of LJ users in various ways. Not what I was looking for, but very cool.

Mood Tracker v0.1: A freeware palm app for tracking moods, food types, etc. Looks fairly basic, and looks like it hasn't been maintained since 2004, but still cool.

Mood Tracker: Same as above, but a shareware version that costs $12 and may actually be maintained.

MoodTracker.Com: Supported by donations, this web app is designed for use by depressives and bipolars. It says it can graph things... haven't logged in to take a serious look at it.

apollolight.com's mood tracker: Free, but run by a company that sells stuff for treating SAD, I know nothing about this online web app mood tracker. Might be worth checking out if you suspect SAD, since if they're smart, they'll have correlated it with sunlight in your area, or at least, with the season.

And, in case any of you are interested, the place I go for monitoring my food intake: FitDay. This can be used to monitor the food you eat, to watch your intake with regards to specific nutrients, to compare calories in versus out, and to monitor your exercise as well. Not the best interface, but free and effective. There's also a daily journal which I'll be using to track everything else until I choose a mood tracker application.

What I WISH I could have was something that did it all in one: tracking sleep, season, mood, medications, food, exercise, nutrients, menstrual cycle, etc.

This looks like it claims to be able to do all that and a bag of chips: Health Tracker, but there's no real info on what it really tracks. There's a free trial, and the program is $20. You download it to your computer, and it claims to be both Mac and PC compatible. However, it runs on Mac 9.x, so that's kinda annoying. And, here's a negative review of the newer version, 3.x: macupdate.com

If anyone has the coding capabilities to design a software which accomplishes all of the above, and could sync between a web app and a palm app, I think there is a real market for a program that could do this.

Comments

[tocityguy.livejournal.com]

I went looking for this kind of thing not that long ago and didn't particularly like what I saw. I was kind of surprised there isn't more so I assumed that I used the wrong key words and would do a search later.

Right now I'm using Google Calendar to track my mental and physical states. Mostly I picked that because, in calendar format, it's easy to see patterns based on chronology. Of course, if you want to see possible causes any other way, a calendar format hardly helps.

I'll keep looking (occasionally) and let you know if I find anything. Please let me know if you find anything too.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

The problem with writing something like that isn't the tracking so much, it's the specification of what wants to be tracked.... Good specification makes the rest a Simple Matter of Coding.