Guide

Bullet journal mood tracker

A bullet journal mood tracker is a small grid or chart in your notebook where you colour or mark one square a day. Draw a key, rule thirty one squares, and fill one in each evening. These layouts show how.

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Start with the key

Pick five moods and a colour or symbol for each, and write them at the top. Five is enough to tell a good day from a flat one without making you stop and think. Do not add colours mid-month.

Layout one: the monthly grid

Rule a row of thirty one small squares, or a block of seven columns for the days of the week. Colour one square each evening. At the end of the month you can see the whole month as a strip of colour.

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Layout two: the line graph

Draw a vertical axis with 1 to 5 and a horizontal axis with the days. Put a dot for each day and join them. It shows swings better than colour does.

Layout three: the year in pixels

One page, twelve rows, thirty one columns: a year of mood squares in one view. It is slow to fill in at first and rewarding by the end of the year.

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When you miss a day

Leave the square blank. Do not fill it in from memory a week later. A gap is honest, and a few gaps do not spoil a tracker.

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If drawing the grid puts you off, print the mood tracker printable and glue it in. It has a ready thirty one day grid with five mood rows, and it prints in black and white.

Questions

How do I make a bullet journal mood tracker?

Write a colour key for five moods, rule thirty one squares and colour one each evening.

How many moods should be in the key?

About five. More makes it hard to choose quickly.

What if I forget to fill it in?

Leave that square blank. Filling it in later from memory makes the record less honest.

Is there a printable version?

Yes. The mood tracker printable here is a free monthly grid in A4 and US Letter.

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