mymood.tools

mymood.tools tracks three things separately: how happy you are, how much you're suffering, and how much meaning you feel. The reason they're independent is that they actually are. You can have a happy day that doesn't feel meaningful. You can be suffering and still feel deeply connected to what matters. Most mood trackers collapse these into a single up-or-down score, which is why so many of them feel thin once you actually use them.

The triangle chart is how you see the shape of that, not just the size. Suffering points down because it's the axis that pulls in the other direction; happy and meaning point up because they don't. The bold triangle is your average across the range; the faint ones behind it are individual entries. Together they show whether your days are loud or quiet, expansive or narrow, balanced or pulled toward one corner.

The framing comes from the Buddhist practice of metta — extending care first to yourself, then outward. Adding meaning as a third axis was the part that made it feel honest. Two axes weren't enough.

Everything is local-first. Your entries live on your device. You can optionally create an account (passkey only, no email or password) to sync across your devices — see Privacy & how this works on the Tools page for what that means. You can export a PDF whenever you want to share something with a clinician or a partner.

Local-first. When you open mymood.tools without signing in, your entries live in this browser's storage (IndexedDB) on this device only. Nothing is sent to the server. Close the tab and your data stays put on this device.

What changes when you create an account. You register a passkey — there is no email, no password, no name. The only thing the server learns about you beyond your entries is the device label you pick (e.g. laptop) and the cryptographic keys your browser/device needs to recognise you next time. After that, your entries sync to the server and across the devices you've enrolled.

Your account is yours. Other users on this server cannot see, read, or affect your entries, your devices, or your sessions in any way. This isolation is enforced at the database query layer, not just the UI — it's been verified end-to-end with a hostile test.

What's stored, exactly. The three mood readings (happy / suffering / meaning, each 0–9), an optional suffering-type tag (body / mind / both), an optional note you type, and a timestamp. Plus the passkey metadata mentioned above. That's it. No analytics, no third-party tracking, no advertising integrations — not because of any compliance promise, just because the code doesn't include any.

Deletion is "hide", not "destroy". Removing an entry sets a tombstone flag that syncs everywhere and hides it from view, but the underlying row stays. This is deliberate — your record isn't pruned by accident. If you want to physically erase data: Tools → Danger zone → tick the Hard erase box, type ERASE, and click. That removes every mood entry you own from this device and from the server. No undo, no recovery path.

This is a personal reflection tool, not medical care. It doesn't diagnose, treat, or monitor mental health conditions. If you're in crisis, please reach out to someone you trust or a professional. There's a crisis-resources line on the Tools page.

Who runs this. mymood.tools is an individual-run service, not a company. There is no compliance program, no SOC2, no formal data-processing agreement. The whole thing runs on one small server. The operator (the person who owns the server) has technical access to the database — your entries are not encrypted in a way that would prevent that. If that matters for what you're tracking, the safest option is to use the app without signing in: your data never leaves your device, and the Tools page lets you export a backup whenever you want.

Source code. Open at github.com/Burnout-Guide/mymood-tools. Anyone can audit how this actually works.