Use Emoji to Track Your Mood With the Thyself Chrome Extension
How do you feel now, at this moment? Okay, which emoji best conveys this feeling? Thyself is a free Chrome extension that tracks your mood throughout the day. It asks you to choose one emoji that represents your current feelings and add an additional text note. Then everything is ready until the next race.
The best part is the wide range of emoji moods that you can customize (and define what emotion each emoji represents) in the settings. This provides more subtlety than the simple “rate your mood 1 to 5” range. Sometimes you feel like a poop emoticon; sometimes you feel like you are vomiting. It turns out that I often grimace.
When it’s time to rate your mood, Thyself will show you all the emoji options arranged in a circle. You drag the corresponding emoji to the middle of the circle. If you drag it to the very center, Sam will also ask you to write a small note about your mood. So you can always talk about your state of mind in detail, but you never have to.
You can choose how often Thyself will request registration, with one trick: when it’s time to check in, Thyself will wait until you load a new web page or open a new tab the next time. (You can choose which one.) To keep it from loading while you read the fascinating Lifehacker post.
But once Thyself loads in a tab, if you ignore it, it starts loading on your other tabs as well, forcing you to check in before you can go elsewhere on the web. When you’re done, it reloads your tab.
This can be very annoying – that’s why it works. I’ve tried many mood trackers in the past, and it’s easy to get lazy and stop responding to their warnings. It throws itself in your face until you answer. This is a tough love for the Chrome extension. If it makes you feel “not,” you should try it.
Created by Wholesome Technology Company , which makes several wellness apps. (They have an Instagram account that asks you if it’s time to stop scrolling on Instagram.) While you have the option to create an account for yourself and sync your mood across devices, they promise not to track users or share their moods.
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