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On this page, you are going to find any special terminology we have in the application domain (i.e., not programming terms). Using the list below, you can find useful informational references or links to related or competitive products.

Terminology

Mood-tracking app: An application that helps you record your feelings and moods and analyze them in a timeline.
Emotion: A natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances; briefly felt.
Mood: A long term state of mind or feeling; holding an emotion for a consistent period. In the application, a Mood is associated with an emotion, an emoticon, and a colour.
Happiness Emotion: Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.
Trust Emotion: Inclined to believe or confide readily; in a state of trusting.
Fear Emotion: A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.
Surprise Emotion: The feeling caused by something unexpected or unusual.
Sadness Emotion: Affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful.
Disgust Emotion: Marked aversion aroused by something highly distasteful; repugnance.
Disgust Emotion: A strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism.
Anticipation Emotion: A state of preemptive reflection that takes into account or forestalls a later action; looking forward.
Love Emotion: Warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion.
Event: An event can be anything from daily individual activities to social events that a user can respond to with a mood event.
Mood Event: Feelings/opinions about an event on a specific date.
Mood Change: A user going back on a mood he recorded, and changing properties related to it.
Mood Location: Where a mood event occurred; GPS longitude and latitude coordinates.
Mood History: A collection of mood events. The user can add to their mood history or, edit and delete a particular mood event from their collection. The user can request to view the latest moods of users that they follow in a follower's mood history.
Participant: A user that participates in an event/mood.
User: An individual that uses the application to record moods.
Primary User: The user using the app and in a particular session.
Second User: A nonprimary user that isn't in session, but is registered with the app.
State of a user: The state of a user corresponds to the last mood of a user.
Mood context: The users can post reasonings for their moods.

Choosing Emotions and Colours

You can find more information on how we picked emotions on this page.

Competetive Apps on Mood Tracking

Daylio Android | IOS
MoodKit IOS
Worry Watch IOS
eMoods Android | IOS
MoodTrack Diary Android | IOS
aiMei Android | IOS
Breathe2Relax Android | IOS
RealifeChange IOS
SmilingMind Android | IOS
iMoodJournal Android | IOS
MindShift Android | IOS

Citations

Mood definitions are taken from:

Oxford Dictionary

Merriam Webster

License

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