I picked this up a while ago. I first started with one of those mood tracker apps on a lark, because for a while I'd been thinking that my general mood was heav

I picked this up a while ago. I first started with one of those mood tracker apps on a lark, because for a while I'd been thinking that my general mood was heavily seasonal and I wanted some data to back that up. Eventually I got tired of seeing streams of frowns on the tracker, so I switched to text, and because I wanted it to be completely private it's an org file that I sync with git to a private server. Apart from taking the time to think about the good as much as the bad, one understated benefit has been that it's helped build a general sense of self. Thoughts are so... ephemeral, we hardly remember the things we thought or felt a day or a week ago unless it's persistent. Noting down what I felt during the day sort of hardened it in my brain, and then reading it a couple weeks later when I remembered it in context established a sense of continuity in my mind. It's been wonderful for my personal development One tip, or rather, opinion, from my side: I've generally found that prompts, like the ones in TFA, felt too restrictive. They're good to start with, because I suspect a lot of us (myself included) generally don't think about how we feel most days. But being more freeform has unlocked a broader set of emotions that I now write about.