Moodie is a web application, designed to help people in relationships share their feelings more easily.
Yes - if anything, moodie is intended to incentivise conversation, rather than be a substitute for it. The project was incepted from the idea that having to continually update someone on how you're feeling, if you're already in a trying time, can be emotionally burdensome.
It is deliberately designed to not replace talking to the people you're in a relationship with. Instead it can allow other members of the relationship to "temperature check" how everyone is feeling.
The "mood logs" of Moodie require three core things:
- Feeling: A score from 0 to 5 of a person's emotional capacity and energy
- Mood: This is how a person is feeling
- Moods are loosely categorised as
positive
,negative
andneutral
- Moods are loosely categorised as
- Need: This is what a person feels they need
- Needs are categorised as
active
orpassive
, which is whether it requires action on the part of another relationship member
- Needs are categorised as
The logs also record the name of the person and the time at which it was recorded.
Moodie makes very little assumption of what a relationship is, or who can comprise one:
- A person can have as many relationships as they want
- Relationships can have as many or as few members as desired
- The application doesn't assume sex or gender
- Individuals in a relationship can independently configure their moods and needs
The things that Moodie does enforce:
- A mood log is identical to all members of a relationship, including the name of the person
- This is because a relationship is intended for all members of it to communicate around
- People are not limited to sharing only one relationship, so it's possible to have different names/moods within different relationships, which may contain the same people
- A mood log is immutable
- This means a person can't edit their mood, but they can post a new mood log at any time
- A mood log can only express one mood and one need
- People and people in relationships are much more complicated than this, obviously
- The intent is to express the "top of mind" feelings, to aid in communication