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Tutorial Mood and Mind
Mind is NOOP's daily mood check-in. You spend a few seconds logging how you're feeling, and over time NOOP looks for connections between your mood and your own metrics — sleep, recovery, HRV, strain. It's a quiet, private way to notice patterns like "I feel flat the day after a short night" without guessing.
A note up front, because it matters: Mind is self-tracking, not a clinical assessment. It doesn't score, diagnose, or flag your mental state, and nothing you log ever leaves your device. If low mood persists, please talk to a qualified professional — NOOP is a journaling tool, not a substitute for care.
It is:
- A daily mood check-in — a lightweight log of how you're feeling.
- A way to correlate mood with your biometrics — so you can see whether your sleep, recovery, or strain track with how you feel.
- Completely private — on-device, like the rest of your NOOP data.
It isn't:
- A diagnosis, screening, or treatment. It doesn't tell you you're "stressed" or "depressed".
- A score or grade of your mental health.
- Anything that sends data anywhere. There's no cloud, no account, no sharing.
Non-clinical, by design. Mind treats your mood the way a paper journal would — a note to yourself, useful for spotting your own patterns over time. It is informational self-tracking, not a mental-health assessment. If you're struggling, reach out to a professional.
The mood check-in lives in Insights. Open Insights from the sidebar (macOS / iOS) or the app menu (Android), and you'll find the daily mood check-in alongside the behaviour and correlation cards.
- Open Insights.
- Find today's mood check-in at the top.
- Log how you're feeling and confirm.
What you'll see: today's entry recorded, with a gentle confirmation. You can update it if your day changes — it's your note, so adjust it freely.
A good habit: check in around the same time each day — many people do it in the evening, looking back on the day. Consistency makes the correlations below more meaningful, but there's no streak to break and no pressure. Miss a day and nothing bad happens; the patterns just lean on the days you did log.
A single mood entry on its own doesn't tell you much. The value comes from accumulation. After roughly 7 days of check-ins, NOOP has enough paired data points to start surfacing relationships between your mood and your metrics.
What you'll see over time:
- Connections between mood and sleep — e.g. whether better-rested nights line up with better-feeling days.
- Connections between mood and recovery / HRV — whether your physiological readiness tracks with how you feel.
- Connections between mood and strain — whether hard days (or rest days) show up in your mood.
These read like the rest of NOOP's correlation work (see Explore & Compare): a plain-English line, a direction (does mood go with or against the metric), and a sense of strength. They're descriptive, not prescriptive — NOOP shows you what moves together, and you decide what it means.
Why ~7 days? Correlation needs paired observations: a mood reading and a metric on the same day. With only two or three days, any apparent pattern is noise. Around a week in, the picture starts to be worth reading; it keeps sharpening the longer you log.
Reading them honestly: correlation isn't cause. "Lower HRV days track with lower mood" is an interesting prompt to reflect on — not a verdict, and not a diagnosis. Treat these as nudges toward your own awareness, the same way you'd treat a note in a journal.
- On-device only. Your mood entries are stored locally with the rest of your NOOP data. They never leave your device — no cloud, no account, no sync.
- Yours to keep or clear. Delete them anytime by wiping NOOP's local data (see Importing History for where the database lives), or uninstalling the app.
- Included in your CSV export. When you export your data from NOOP, your mood check-ins are part of it — so you own a portable copy. That export is a file you choose to create and where it goes; NOOP doesn't send it anywhere.
The point of keeping mood this private is simple: people are honest in a journal precisely because no one else reads it. Mind keeps that bargain.
- Be consistent, not perfect. Same-ish time each day beats occasional detailed entries.
- Pair it with the rest of Insights. Once correlations appear, jump into Explore & Compare to plot mood against any single metric and look closer.
- Give it a couple of weeks before drawing conclusions. Early patterns are tentative; let the data breathe.
- Notice the prompt, not the prescription. A correlation is a question to ask yourself ("am I sleeping enough?"), not an instruction.
- Explore & Compare — plot mood against any metric and read correlations in depth.
- Recovery, Strain & Readiness — the metrics Mind correlates against.
- Importing History — where your local data lives and how to clear it.
- Privacy and Security — how NOOP keeps everything on-device.
- FAQ — including "Is the Mind / mood feature medical?".
Reminder: Mind is non-clinical self-tracking, not a mental-health assessment, diagnosis, or treatment. NOOP is an independent, unofficial tool for a device you own — not affiliated with WHOOP, Inc., and not a medical device. If low mood persists, talk to a qualified professional. See the Disclaimer.
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