Noting sleep, energy and mood
You are not ill, exactly. But something has shifted, and a few weeks of plain notes will show you what a description never quite manages.
Not every record is about being ill. Sometimes the question is quieter than that — you have been flat for a while, or sleeping badly, or something has changed and you cannot say when. That is hard to describe and easy to record.
Three numbers and nothing else
How you slept, how much energy you had, how your mood was. Roughly, on a scale that means something to you. It takes seconds and that is the point — the value here is entirely in doing it most days for a few weeks, not in doing it carefully once.
Do it at the same time
Whichever time suits, as long as it is consistent. Mood noted at 8am and mood noted at 11pm are not the same measurement, and comparing them across a month tells you nothing.
You cannot see a lag while you are living it. Three weeks of dots shows it plainly.
Look for the lag, not the day
The interesting thing is rarely a single bad day. It is that a run of poor sleep shows up in energy a day or two later, or that a stretch of low mood follows something else. You cannot see that in the moment and you cannot recall it afterwards. You can see it plainly in three weeks of dots.
It gives you something to say
“I have been tired” is easy to say and easy to move past. “I have slept under six hours on nineteen of the last thirty nights” is a different conversation, and it is one you can only have if you wrote it down.
This is about noticing your own patterns, not diagnosing them. If your mood is low for a sustained stretch, or you are struggling, please speak to your doctor or practitioner — a record is a useful thing to bring, not a reason to wait. Underweather is not a diagnostic tool.
Notice the shape of your weeks.
Note sleep, energy and mood in seconds a day, kept on your device.
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