Moodie

Moodie is a web application, designed to help people in relationships share their feelings more easily.

Shouldn't people just talk?

Yes - if anything, moodie is intended to incentivise conversation, rather than be a substitute for it. The project was incepted from the idea that having to continually update someone on how you're feeling, if you're already in a trying time, can be emotionally burdensome.

It is deliberately designed to not replace talking to the people you're in a relationship with. Instead it can allow other members of the relationship to "temperature check" how everyone is feeling.

What does Moodie record?

The "mood logs" of Moodie require three core things:

• Feeling: A score from 0 to 5 of a person's emotional capacity and energy
• Mood: This is how a person is feeling
  • Moods are loosely categorised as positive, negative and neutral
• Need: This is what a person feels they need
  • Needs are categorised as active or passive, which is whether it requires action on the part of another relationship member

The logs also record the name of the person and the time at which it was recorded.

What's a relationship?

Moodie makes very little assumption of what a relationship is, or who can comprise one:

• A person can have as many relationships as they want
• Relationships can have as many or as few members as desired
• The application doesn't assume sex or gender
• Individuals in a relationship can independently configure their moods and needs

The things that Moodie does enforce:

• A mood log is identical to all members of a relationship, including the name of the person
  • This is because a relationship is intended for all members of it to communicate around
  • People are not limited to sharing only one relationship, so it's possible to have different names/moods within different relationships, which may contain the same people
• A mood log is immutable
  • This means a person can't edit their mood, but they can post a new mood log at any time
• A mood log can only express one mood and one need
  • People and people in relationships are much more complicated than this, obviously
  • The intent is to express the "top of mind" feelings, to aid in communication