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A 6 on the mood scale is not negative, it should not have a yellow “meh” face

A 6 or 6.4 is a pretty ok grade where I am from. I don’t quite understand why a full 1-1.4 points above middle is seen as negative. 1-5 should be negative with the 5 yellow as a warning, and then 6-10 should be positive. The way it is now is making me feel bad for having a “fine” day, while I haven’t even reached or dipped below middle. Even my partner asked if I wasn’t having a good day when he saw my 6.4 average, I shudder to think the conclusions a doctor or therapist might draw from a quick glance through someone’s data.

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Suggested 07 December 2020 by user Frankie

Moved into Not currently planned 14 December 2020

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  • 07 December 2020 Frankie suggested this task

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    I’d suggest basing the scale on your OWN average day. So if you say a 6 or 6.4 is actually a decent day for you, maybe you would actually consider putting days like this as a 7?

    10 December 2020
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    I’d say there’s a fair difference for me between a 6-day and a 7-day, which In turn doesn’t come near an 8-day, so I’m not sure that would work for me unfortunately. We just don’t categorize a 6 as a bad grade as it is above the middle point, we categorize it as satisfactory.

    Maybe the disconnect happens because in the Netherlands (as well as I think India, Germany, and probably some other countries around Europe.) our grade system for schools and everything else works with a 1-10 system, so we use it for almost everything. A 6 has a pretty defined spot in the middle area around this part of the world. the 4-8 range is where most of my mood action is, so skipping an entire grade would be too big of a jump as I use that 6 often

    10 December 2020
  • 14 December 2020 James @Bearable moved this task into Not currently planned

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    I completely agree! I end up not using the 5/6 mood because it doesn’t feel right, yellow seems negative when it should be neutral, maybe gray. Really disappointed to see this in the not possible section, it would be an easy change.

    16 August 2022
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    I know this labeled as not possible, but I wonder if it would be possible by being able to set custom icons? As in, choose which icon you want for each number.

    10 January 2023
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    This is my question as well. As I said in my comments on “mood groups,” the ability to customize the mood scale even in a superficial way (i.e. change the label/icon but not the underlying code) would be a massive improvement and eliminate the only reason to use a competitor like Daylio for mood tracking.

    21 February 2023
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    I agree this seems easy to change. I think, in general, we are talking about just the colors. But I wonder if adding onto this, maybe having an indicator of our own baseline and then the colors adjust from there. For example, I consider my baseline a 4 or a 5. But someone else has a 6. Maybe our baseline could be set in the settings, and then the colors could adjust based on that setting?

    02 March 2023
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    Suggesting “my own scale” is kinda sad. I’ve been sick for less than a year and I would really prefer to recover completely. I can’t just whipe out a lifetime of having 8/10 days, without ever remembering or looking forward to better times, just for the duration of this disease.

    18 June 2023