Calendar with forgiving streaks

A streak that resets on a hard day is the wrong incentive in a mood tracker. The whole point is to log honestly. MoodSync uses a streak that counts the times you showed up, not the times you were perfect.

What the calendar shows

Each day shows a colored mood pill, with the color reflecting the average of your mood entries for that day. A run of green-ish days reads at a glance. A patch of red-ish days does too.

Tap a day, and the full record opens — every scale, the sleep hours, and which meds you took. The day-tap is the part that matters. Ambulatory assessment in psychiatry depends on entries that capture what was actually happening in the moment2013; the calendar is the way back to those entries.

What "forgiving streaks" means

A traditional streak resets to zero the first day you miss. Smartphone monitoring works because it is sustainable for months2015 — the failure mode you are trying to prevent is a person quitting after one missed day.

In MoodSync the streak counts the days you logged this month, not consecutive days. Miss a Tuesday, log Wednesday, and Wednesday still counts toward your month.

Why the calendar matters for visit prep

Clinical rating scales have long used short ordinal anchors to summarize a stretch of days1960. The MoodSync calendar borrows the same compact daily-snapshot idea (it is not a clinical instrument): a stretch of days you can scroll back through with your clinician, without trying to remember what last Wednesday felt like.