Happiness diary app thought by psychologists

Penguin Diary is a mood diary application developed to make it easy to use the calendar method, which was introduced in the TV program "Doppuri App". Most of the features are available for free.

[What is the Calendar Marubatsu Method]

At the end of the day, evaluate the day by "circle", "batsu", and "triangle".

nice day

bad day

so-so day...triangle

By writing reasons in your diary, you can discover what words are associated with good and bad days. The criteria for judging good days and bad days change. The feature of this method is that it can notice changes in the judgment criteria.

[About the developer]

The developer has published numerous international papers in the field of psychology. My research theme is subjective well-being. It is the study of happiness. I also studied abroad at the forefront of happiness research at the University of Virginia Department of Psychology in the United States. The calendar method was devised by the developer based on numerous papers and his own research and experiments. This app was developed so that you can easily practice the Calendar Marubatsu method with a smartphone app. Penguin Diary is an app that incorporates plenty of know-how cultivated in happiness research. Research on the Calendar Marubatsu method has been presented at the Japan Society of Behavioral Economics. I also have knowledge in positive psychology and social psychology.

[Features]

- Security - protect your diary with password, fingerprint or face recognition

- One random background photo per day will heal you

- Photos - Not only a text input diary, but also a photo diary

- Calendar - save your best memories and bring them back anytime

- Mood tracker - record your mood and track your emotions

- Daily Reminder - Helps develop a journaling habit

- Easy to use - enjoy the simplicity and beauty of the app

- Easy to look back - You can look back on your diary in various ways

- Resistant to model changes - Data can be transferred from Android to other OS

[For situations like this]

- When you want to go on a journey of self-discovery

- When you want to be happier

- When you want to know what events are related to your happiness

- When you want to look back on the past in the camera roll

- When you want to leave happy memories

[Recommended for people like this]

- People who use the diary app for the first time

- People who want to know their values

- People who want to keep a diary but can't keep it

- People who feel like they are in a rut these days

- People who want to keep a diary for a long time

- People looking for a simple diary

【Functions list】

- Main screen switching function

There is a calendar view that allows you to see the marks at a glance, and a card view that allows you to take a closer look at each day. Both are very stylish and simple. Easily reflect on your emotions and cognitive assessment of your day. Switch between calendar view and card view depending on your mood.

- You can use one photo per day as a background

By default, the app has nearly 1000 types of photos, such as cute animals and beautiful flowers. There are penguins, dogs, cats, wild birds, otters, and flowers in the photos. A photo of the day is randomly selected from these photos and can be used as a background photo. Of course, you can also use your own photo as the background. You can keep a diary while being healed by many pictures of animals and flowers.

- Automatic analysis function

It analyzes the data of Marubatsu Triangle and displays today's condition out of 100 points. Since you can easily check your mental state, it is convenient for mental health and happiness management. In addition, you can see the words and categories that were frequently used on good days, so you can see what is related to your good days. The automatic analysis function is displayed in the form of stories, so you can easily look back on each day. You can manage your mental health as easily as a scale. I think it will be useful for self-analysis in job hunting.

- Word ranking

When you keep a diary, the content of the diary is analyzed, nouns are extracted, and the app counts the number of occurrences of the word and displays the ranking. If you write the reason why you put a circle in your diary, you will be able to understand what words you wrote in your diary on the day you put a circle. If the values ​​change, the ranking should also change. Notice the change in values!

- tagging function

You can add tags to your diary. Category tags and mood tags are available. For category tags, select categories related to the diary of the day, such as friends, work, health, and play. Moods record moods and emotions. Mood tags can be positive or negative. Negative is anxious, frustrated, etc., and we use keywords that are used in research that measures emotions such as positive psychology and clinical psychology. You can also add your own new categories and moods. You can add your own original tag.

- Search function

There is a keyword search function. The search target is the text of the diary text. In addition, it is very easy to look back because you can display by tag such as category and mood.

- Tons of themes

There are many stylish dress-up themes available. Switch according to your mood. All are stylish. There are some themes even in the free plan, and you can use even more dress-up themes with the premium plan.

- Passcode lock function

Equipped with a passcode lock function, so you don't have to worry about being seen by someone. It also supports face authentication and fingerprint authentication, so you can easily unlock it when you use it yourself. Diary data is saved in the terminal. Since it is not saved on the cloud, even confidential content can be recorded. Also available on the free plan.

- Function to look back on 10 years worth of photos

There is a function to automatically look back on photos from the same day for 10 years. Also available on the free plan.

- 3-choice mark change function

A good day, a bad day, and a fair day are shown with a triangular triangle by default, but you can switch to a cute penguin illustration. Also available on the free plan.

- Adjust character font

You can also increase or decrease the character size of the diary, and you can also adjust the size between characters and lines. For those who find it too small to read or have difficulty typing, we can make the font size large for your peace of mind. Also available on the free plan.

- Reminder function

If you set the time to your liking, you will be notified by push notification! You can prevent forgetting to write in the diary. If you allow notifications, the diary will continue, so please allow notifications and use it. Also available on the free plan.

- Backup function

Although it is limited to the premium plan, you can back up the diary data on the cloud. It is safe because it supports model changes between Android and iPhone.

- Ranks and trophies

The rank will go up by continuing the diary. Diary continuation trophies and trophies for when good days continue are prepared, so it will be a motivation to continue diary. Also available on the free plan.

- Diary data is saved in the terminal

Diary data is saved in the terminal. It is safe because it is not saved on the cloud.

[Recommended usage of the app]

Diary, diary, memo, idea book, one-on-one, creative notebook, material notebook, growth/childcare record, diet, training, muscle training record, sleep, cooking, food, place you went out, medication record, TODO list, travel destination Memories, emotions, future plans, lifelogs, dream diaries, bullet journals, journals, etc.

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