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My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

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Re: My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

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Tangential but nevertheless related: I appreciate how as a culture we’re finally realizing, and sharing, as the author does here, that alcohol is not always a positive. In fact, for most people, it has a significant negative impact on mood and health.

I used to drink more but seeing broader studies and anecdotal notes like this helps me socially and culturally moderate in a healthier way.

Re: My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

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I’ve had an Apple Watch for years but I very rarely use it for anything I couldn’t do with my Pebble Time Round all those years ago. Set timers, control music, check the weather… all possible with a device that was cheaper, had a longer lasting battery and looked better (subjective opinion of course). RIP Pebble. You were always doomed because you couldn’t have the kind of OS integration a first party device could, b…

I've always felt the Pebble was superior to the Apple Watch for controlling music playback, because you could control the playback with tactile buttons you can operate without looking at. With the Apple Watch you don't really have any choice but to raise your wrist (to make the screen turn on), look at the screen to know where to tap, and tap precisely on the right spot on the screen. With the Pebble you can just fee…

Exactly. I looked for a long time to replace my pebble. Garmin sort of does it, but most of the time I actually control music playback via my AirPods, which don’t need to be in the right state in order to control anything.

Re: My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

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When Pebble died, I switched to a Garmin watch. It replicated the features of the Pebble that I held most dear, most importantly, the long battery life and physical buttons. Sadly, it isn't possible to develop apps for it, though. To this day, there isn't a watch that adequately replaced the full glory that is the Pebble.

I did the same, and I still miss my pebble, I miss how well it handled my calendar - and agenda. Now after a number of years with my fenix 5, without it really changing, I'm eyeing up an apple watch, to fill that agenda shaped hole on my wrist/

Same. Wish Apple made an AWU that was less focused on rugged sports and more focused on maximizing battery life.

It’s bizarre that xiaomi and amazfit make nice looking watches with 8x as much battery life as an Apple Watch. What is Apple’s problem?

I would have stuck with the amazfit but the physical buttons won’t control music (and I don’t trust their data policy enough to wear a gps-enabled device on my person 24/7).

Re: My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

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Hi, I'm working on How We Feel. I'm eager to make it more useful. If there is anyone on this thread interested in helping, please send a note to ben@howwefeel.org. So far, I've learned that the biggest benefit of mood tracking is the process of tracking: taking a moment to reflect on how you feel, name the emotion, and think about why you feel the way you do. The next big opportunity is to teach people effective stra…

Hey thanks for work on the app! Is there any possibility of translating the app to different languages? I can drop a note to email if you want, since as I understand you are based on Yale's Mood Meter - https://moodmeterapp.com/science/ - it might have some more or less official translations in some languages.

Yes, we will do translations in the future!

Re: My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

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Hi, I'm working on How We Feel. I'm eager to make it more useful. If there is anyone on this thread interested in helping, please send a note to ben@howwefeel.org. So far, I've learned that the biggest benefit of mood tracking is the process of tracking: taking a moment to reflect on how you feel, name the emotion, and think about why you feel the way you do. The next big opportunity is to teach people effective stra…

I recently discovered How We Feel so I just wanted to thank you for your work. I really enjoy using the app! I found a small bug in the analyze tab though. If you look at e.g. weekly and select a tab that is not the left most one, then scroll down, then tap the top of the display (the universal scroll to the top feature of iOS), the content disappears.

Thanks for finding this bug. We'll get it fixed soon.

Re: My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

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> the Digital Crown on an Apple Watch could in theory be a great input. However, ... it's hard to know how far you have rotated it without looking for some kind of visual feedback from the watch

You could make each step give haptic feedback, which seems to be standard behaviour for stuff like time pickers

Re: My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

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When Pebble died, I switched to a Garmin watch. It replicated the features of the Pebble that I held most dear, most importantly, the long battery life and physical buttons. Sadly, it isn't possible to develop apps for it, though. To this day, there isn't a watch that adequately replaced the full glory that is the Pebble.

Garmin has an app store & SDK,its absolutely possible to develop apps for it.

Not for my model. I have an Instinct, which is their cheapest line and doesn't allow app development. Their more expensive offerings do, though, you're right.

I went for the Instinct because I use it heavily when backpacking in the wilderness, and it's the most rugged. Plus, it's inexpensive enough that if I bash it against a rock or something and destroy it, it's not a crisis.

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