A daily vibe-tracking app that makes emotional check-ins fast and frictionless, so you actually stick with it.
Most journaling apps ask too much — a blank page, infinite flexibility, and the implicit pressure to write something meaningful. theFEELS takes the opposite approach: just log your vibe for the day. It’s a lightweight mood-tracking app that strips journaling down to the essentials, giving you a fast daily check-in without the ceremony.
Built with Next.js and TypeScript, the app is designed for the kind of consistency that more elaborate tools make difficult. The friction is deliberately low — open it, rate your day, add a note if you feel like it, move on. Over time the log becomes a useful emotional record, the sort of data that’s hard to reconstruct from memory but easy to maintain when the daily habit costs almost nothing to keep.
theFEELS is the kind of project that exists because the builder needed it. It’s live at thefeels.tjw.dev and open source for anyone who wants to self-host, fork the approach, or build something similar for their own needs.