A mental-health journal no wellness company owns.
Mood data has become one of the most quietly monetised categories on your phone. A file is a very different bet.
The mental-health app category is enormously helpful for some people, and enormously extractive as an industry. If you'd rather keep the log and skip the industry, a file is a reasonable middle path — usable alongside therapy, medication, and everything else.
What to log
Mood, sleep hours, medication and doses, therapy takeaways, triggers, what worked. Kept in your own words, in a file only you (and your therapist, if you show them) will read.
For the appointment
Bring the last month. Fifteen minutes of context become five, and the session goes further.
Not a crisis tool
The Mindfulness Log records; it doesn't intervene. In a crisis, use the local emergency number and the crisis lines listed for your country.
What to reach for
Common questions
Is this therapy?
No. It's a private log, useful alongside therapy or medication, and not a substitute for either.
For teenagers?
Yes, if they want it. The file is theirs; you don't get to read a teenager's journal — that's the entire point.
HIPAA?
HIPAA governs how businesses handle your data. A file on your own machine is outside its scope.
Compared to Daylio / Bearable?
Those are apps with a business model. This is a page. Use whichever fits.