UFeels is an Android application designed to help users track, categorize, and reflect on their emotions. With a privacy-first, offline approach, UFeels allows users to log and analyze their feelings without needing registration or data sharing. The app offers a unique take on emotional tracking, providing options for custom emotion categorization and insightful data visualization.
"What is a feeling, and how should it be categorized?" - UFeels tackles this complex question by allowing users to define and track their emotions in a way that suits them, rather than following rigid psychological classifications.
- Emotion Tracking: Users can log their emotions with timestamps, location (optional), and custom categories.
- Data Visualization: Emotions are visualized over time, allowing users to identify patterns and triggers.
- Custom Categorization System: Users can define their own emotional categories, moving beyond traditional "positive" or "negative" labels.
- Offline-First Design: Data is stored locally, ensuring user privacy without requiring cloud storage or user accounts.
- Monetization: In-app purchases are available through the Google Billing API, allowing for a monetized, ad-free experience.
UFeels was developed to address some of the challenges involved in emotional self-tracking:
- Defining Feelings: The app encourages users to differentiate between mind-related emotions (e.g., joy, anger) and physical states (e.g., hunger, fatigue).
- Flexible Categorization: UFeels doesn’t limit users to standard categorizations of emotions; instead, it allows for personal, subjective categorization.
- Enhanced Self-Reflection: The app is designed to discourage default responses (like "I’m fine") that can make self-development data less meaningful.
The journey to create UFeels involved exploring various perspectives on emotions and how to categorize them. Here are some unique considerations that guided its development:
- What Constitutes a "Feeling"?: The app differentiates between emotions related to mental states (e.g., happiness, anger) and physical conditions (e.g., hunger, fatigue).
- Categorization Flexibility: Psychological interpretations often label emotions as positive or negative, but UFeels allows users to interpret their emotions subjectively.
- Response Authenticity: Common responses like "I’m fine" are minimized through the app’s design, encouraging genuine reflections for meaningful data.
For further reading on emotional categories and concepts:
- Download: Install the app from the Google Play Store.
- Explore Settings: Use the settings menu to customize your tracking preferences, turn on/off ads, or manage premium features.
- Begin Tracking: Start logging your emotions and discover insights over time with UFeels’ unique data visualization tools.
- Enhance visualization options to offer interactive data graphs.
- Add more customizable options for emotion categories and subcategories.
- Explore cloud-based data backup while preserving user privacy.
Thank you for exploring UFeels! If you have any questions, feedback, or collaboration ideas, feel free to reach out or connect via GitHub.
- Feelings Data CSV: Contains collected emotional data for research and analysis.
