After a long hiatus, I am Excited, Delighted, Elated, Ecstatic and Pleased to bring you an update to the Mood-Log app! I am also extremely Grateful to all of you who’ve given feedback over the years.
If you look back, you’ll see that version 2.0 of Mood-Log came out on June 1, 2019, so it’s been five years to the day since you saw an update. A lot has happened in those years; a lot of emotions, a lot of feelings, a lot of moods to log. And I’m amazed that so many of you still use and love this app. The feedback you’ve sent via email and in the App Store means a lot to me. Thank you.
What’s New?
Here’s a rundown on what’s new, in a bit more detail than you can read in the App Store:
See that little alarm clock? That’s the Reminders button
• New feature! Reminders can now be set to activate at random times during the day. You can set quiet hours when you don’t want to be reminded, and set up to 50 reminders per day.
Sometimes it can be useful to be reminded randomly to pause for a minute and think about how you are feeling right now. You don’t have to make a log entry every time, but of course you may want to. I maxed it out at 50 times/day; and I try to make sure two notifications don’t come within ten minutes of each other.
You can set quiet hours when you don’t want to be sent notifications.
Let me know if this new feature works for you, and any ideas you have on tweaks to make it better.
• Several of you noticed that if you’re writing long journal entries, Mood-Log wasn’t scrolling, so text you typed was hidden underneath the iPhone’s keyboard or below the bottom of the screen. Now when the entry gets long, the text area scrolls and you can see everything you type, as you type it.
• In landscape mode, in a Mood-Log entry, the text for journal entries is no longer cut off on the left and right.
• On your very first launch of Mood-Log, it used to ask if you wanted to enable notifications. Well, if you never set reminders, you would never need notifications, so now I only ask to enable notifications the first time you attempt to set reminders. Assuming you say ‘yes,’ that’s the only time you’ll be asked.
• Updated to run with latest versions of iOS and MacOS with Apple silicon processors. It should even run on the Apple Vision Pro.
• I added a single mood—Grateful—based on feedback from a user several years ago. If you look carefully, you’ll see the face of Grateful was actually borrowed from another emotion. I really am Grateful to all of you who’ve written to express your support for Mood-Log!