Inside Aura mood tracking: two numbers, one timeline, real patterns

Two numbers and an optional word. Mood (how positive or negative the day feels, 1-10) and energy (how activated or drained, 1-10) are separate axes on purpose: anxious-but-wired and sad-but-calm are different states with different remedies, and a single "how are you" score collapsides them. The optional context — one tag or word like work, sleep, people — is what later makes correlation possible. Entries take seconds by design: the feature's accuracy comes from daily comparability across months, not from rich single entries. Log at roughly the same time daily, ideally evening when the day is complete.

Three views over the same data. The history is the raw diary: every entry, scrollable, with context tags. The trend view smooths entries into lines so the baseline slope is visible — this is where a slow two-month decline stops hiding behind noisy days. The AI insights layer then cross-references: mood against habit completions, sleep, journal tone and weekday, surfacing repeats like the short-night crash or the fixed weekday dip. Nothing here is magic; it is the same record-keeping a meticulous spreadsheet keeper would do, automated and plotted.

Four rules. Same time daily — comparability beats detail. Full scale — living between 5 and 7 flattens the trend into noise, so use the ends honestly. One context word minimum — untagged moods cannot correlate with anything. No backfilling — memory of mood is biased toward recent intensity, and backfilled days import exactly the bias the log exists to remove. Give it four weeks before judging: below that you are reading weather, not climate. Premium adds longer history and deeper AI reads, but the free tier holds the complete core loop.

Three hard lines. Never diagnose: the app shows correlations and trends, and any clinical-sounding label would be overreach — persistently low mood belongs with a professional, and the app says so. Never sell or share: entries are encrypted, excluded from any training or advertising use, with working export and deletion as required for health-adjacent data. Never nag punitively about gaps: a missed day is a gap in the chart, not a broken streak to mourn — the feature wants your honesty, including the days you skip.