Your Mood Diary
Twenty seconds a day
One line a day — how you felt, how you slept, what was going on. After a week or two the diary starts showing you things you cannot see from inside a bad month: which days run low, what keeps turning up when they do, and whether sleep is driving any of it.
Today
How was your day?
Nothing here is a test and there is no right answer. Skip anything you do not feel like answering.
How did the day feel?
optional
What was going on? optional · pick any
optional · stays on this device
Your diary is saved in this browser, on this device. It is never sent to PsySupport unless you choose to share a summary at the bottom of this page, and you can delete the whole thing at any time.
Your weeks
The last eight weeks
Every square is a day. Empty squares are days you did not fill in — they are gaps, not failures, and the diary works fine with holes in it.
Patterns
What the diary is noticing
These only appear once there is enough logged to mean something. A pattern found in three days is a coincidence, so the diary stays quiet until it is not one.
Patterns need about a week of entries before they say anything useful. Keep going — there is nothing to see here yet, and that is expected.
Bring it to a session
Prepare for a first conversation
The hardest part of a first session is answering “so how have things been?” on the spot. This turns your diary into a few plain lines you can read out, copy, or send ahead.
Nothing to summarise yet
Save a few entries and your summary appears here.
Sending opens WhatsApp with this text ready — nothing goes anywhere until you press send there, and you can edit it first. The summary carries the numbers and patterns only; anything you wrote in the notes box stays on your device.
Why bother
What a diary gives you that memory does not
A bad week is not a bad month
When things are hard, the hard days are the ones you remember. Written down, most people find the picture is less uniform than it felt — and the good days become evidence rather than a fluke.
Causes stop being invisible
Sleep, a particular weekday, one recurring situation. These are almost impossible to spot from inside the week, and obvious across eight of them.
It makes the first session easier
Counsellors ask what has been happening. Arriving with two months of actual days beats trying to reconstruct it under pressure, and it saves a session's worth of guessing.
Keeping your diary
Two minutes now saves two months later
A browser can clear its own storage — phones do it to free space, and iPhones do it automatically if you go a few weeks without opening a site. Either of these stops that happening.
The surest fix, and it opens like an app
Installed to your home screen, the diary gets storage the browser will not quietly clear, it opens in one tap without the address bar, and it works with no signal. Nothing is uploaded — it is the same page, kept properly.
- Tap the Share button at the bottom of Safari (the square with an arrow).
- Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
- Tap Add. The diary appears as an icon with your other apps.
It has to be Safari — Chrome on iPhone cannot install pages.
- Open the browser menu (the three dots, top right).
- Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
- Confirm. The diary appears with your other apps.
✓ You are running the installed diary. Your entries are kept properly here.
Also how you move the diary to a new phone
A backup is a small file holding everything you have logged. Save it somewhere you keep things — it restores onto any phone or computer, including a new one.
Restoring merges the backup with anything already here. Where both have the same day, the backup wins.
Your data
The diary lives in this browser only. It is not backed up, and clearing your browsing data, switching phone or opening this page in a private window will lose it. There is no account and no copy on our side.
When you want to talk it through
A diary shows you the shape of things. Working out what to do about it is what a session is for — the first conversation costs you nothing.