Months of Moods

I finally finished my April Mood Tracker, so I decided to go back through my past mood trackers and show what they look like finished.

My mood trackers have been the easiest for me to keep up with. I wanted them more than any other spread when I decided to get into Bujo.

My very first spread is February’s. It was so basic I didn’t post it.

It is a bit of a mess. I didn’t know what I was doing, so I set it up in such a way that I could only do one color a day, but that’s not realistic, at least for me. A single day doesn’t always fit into one category. If I get sick in the afternoon, it doesn’t erase the good morning I had. It’s important to me to keep a log of that.

I used a bunch of different pens to all mean the same color, which I hate :see_no_evil: .

But hey, it was a good start. Everyone starts somewhere

March was a lot better on the bujo front. I am obsessed with how this one turned out

The first major change was the addition of a color for “sick”, which I defined as physically ill or incapacitated by pain for a large portion of the day. I put that in because sometimes sick days don’t fit another category very well. If I’m sick, I will sleep for 20 hours and in February I was like ???

In March I had some major scheduled events, which I can easily see because they are the space ships.

I added the dates as I filled it in, so I could pick the space with the right number of color slots.

What I didn’t like about it was that it’s hard to see progression because there’s no clear order and it’s very hard to read the numbers.

Which leads me to take three.

*Drumroll*

I haven’t found anything I dislike about this one yet. I still kinda like March more artistically, but this one works well. I can see trends easily and check specific days. The major emotion for the day is the tummy of the plushies. I added another color option to distinguish “eh this was a pretty good day” from “OMG THIS WAS AMAZING YESSSS”

I put a memories column for future reference, which is nice alongside the moods.

If anyone has recommendations for the future, I’m always open, but I really wanted to share this because it took a long time but I’m really proud of it.