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Remove character limit for mood notes

This would add the ability to write notes that are as long as you like, giving you the ability to treat this more like proper journalling if you wanted to.

This isn’t something we’re planning on changing, but we wanted a central place where you can vote for this feature if you’d like it and get updates if we do consider this in future.

Update: unlimited length doesn’t really make sense, but we’ve expanded the limit to 1000 characters, 4x the old limit.

36 votes

Tagged as Development

Created 19 August 2017 by Belle Cooper

Moved into Completed 18 August 2020

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  • 19 August 2017 Belle Cooper created this task

  • 19 August 2017 Josh Sharp edited this task

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    This please - I have tried some diary apps but always revert back to Exist.

    25 February 2018
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    agree remove limit or extend character limit.

    30 March 2018
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    Agreed–I hit it nearly every day!

    29 June 2018
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    I’ve also voted for this feature. As I hit the limit “every” day. I also see it as a kind of journal. Rating the mood every day needs discipline, if I take myself time for this, why not adding also some context. I’m joining the “1000 chars would be nice” crowd, as 250 chars are very limiting no matter how much I summarize everything. Writing 1000 chars about a day could also be a good habit to self-reflect and set data in a much better context.

    09 April 2019
  • 19 October 2019 Belle Cooper moved this task into In progress

  • 19 October 2019 Belle Cooper moved this task into Planned

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    This sounds very helpful. Sometimes, I feel like writing a bit more, but then the limit makes me use only keywords to describe the day.

    21 October 2019
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    Would love to downvote this too. Psychologically speaking - micro-journaling is better and helps people to get used to the service more, and to get into the habit of journaling.

    Should they wish to do journaling properly, there are other tools for this.

    26 January 2020
  • 22 April 2020 Josh Sharp moved this task into In progress

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    Noticed this went to “in progress”. Does that mean this is being implemented? Yay!

    23 April 2020
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    Yep! It’ll be made possible as part of our manual tracking changes.

    23 April 2020
  • 18 August 2020 Josh Sharp moved this task into Completed

  • 18 August 2020 Josh Sharp edited this task

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    Unlimited length doesn’t really make sense, but I’m calling this done as we’ve expanded the limit to 1000 characters, 4x the old limit.

    18 August 2020
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    1000 characters still not enough for me sometimes :) haha but okay, I agree can use other platforms for extended notes.

    10 January 2021
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    I write my notes during the day in Google Keep (because it’s safe, stable and cross-platform) and in the end of the day I copy them to Exist, but in 1 day of 10 I have to reedit my note to cut it down to a smaller one.

    It would be good at least not to strictly cut the text on 1000th character, but show that it is over the limit for N characters, so I have to edit it right in Exist.

    16 December 2022