Mood Meter Check-Ins
How We Feel turns a quick emotional check-in into the starting point for a personal wellbeing journal. The Mood Meter groups feelings by pleasantness and energy, then lets you move from broad color areas to precise words such as Calm, Focused, or Uneasy. This makes it easier to name a feeling when a simple happy-or-sad choice is not enough.
After choosing an emotion, you can record context and return to that entry later, building a timeline that reflects ordinary days as well as difficult moments. The visual grid, clear labels, and short flow suit a morning check-in, a pause after a difficult conversation, or a quick evening reflection. Repeating the habit gives the journal useful language for noticing how your emotional state changes.
Short Strategies for the Moment
How We Feel pairs check-ins with practical regulation guidance rather than leaving a mood label on its own. Its strategy library is organized around themes such as Change Your Thinking, Move Your Body, Be Mindful, and Reach Out. Each theme uses step-by-step video ideas that can fit into about a minute, so you can choose an approach that matches the moment instead of searching for a long lesson.
These prompts are useful after naming a tense, restless, or low-energy feeling: try a cognitive reframing exercise, use movement to shift attention, pause for mindfulness, or contact someone you trust. The flow emphasizes small, repeatable actions, making it suitable for a desk break, a commute, or a reset before a conversation.
Patterns, Health Signals, and Data Control
Over time, the journal becomes more useful when entries can be compared rather than viewed in isolation. How We Feel provides trend views for emotional patterns and can connect check-ins with signals such as sleep and exercise; Health charts and body-sensation mapping add another way to relate feelings to daily routines. This lets users look back at recurring states, notice relationships with habits, and bring a clearer record to personal reflection.
How We Feel keeps data on the device by default, with optional sharing and a Google Drive backup choice for Android. Use these tools to keep a personal history available when changing phones while deciding what leaves the device. The result is a journal that supports private review and deliberate data management instead of a one-off mood score.
Friends, Sharing, and Everyday Reflection
Reflection does not have to stay solitary. How We Feel Friends lets you share how you feel with people you trust, giving close relationships a simple way to notice when support might help. Sharing is selective: you decide how much to reveal and when, so a check-in can remain private or become a prompt for a real conversation.
Use the journal around situations that benefit from a pause—before a meeting, after a hard exchange, or while building a steady wellbeing habit. The onboarding flow introduces precise emotion words, short strategy guidance, and a privacy explanation in clear steps, which keeps the first interaction approachable. For individuals, couples, or trusted friends, the app turns emotional vocabulary into a repeatable reflection practice.
