Time/happiness diaries just got a lot easier: There’s now a Track Your Happiness app for the iPhone. How does it work?
Answer a few questions
First we’ll ask you some questions for statistical purposes. This will
take about 10 minutes.Track your happiness
Using your iPhone, you’ll be notified by email or text message and asked
to report how you are feeling and what you are doing. You decide when
and how often you want to be notified.Your Happiness Report
This report will show how your happiness varies depending on what you are
doing, who you are with, where you are, what time of day it is, and a
variety of other factors.
I’m still not sold, but if I do get an iPhone, this will be my first app to add.
READER COMMENTS
aretae
Mar 10 2010 at 11:20am
Happiness tracking is good, but only measures one kind of happiness.
Alex
Mar 10 2010 at 11:56am
Its not really an iPhone app. The survey’s they require you to fill out are web pages you access through the phones browser.
It’s currently formatted best to be used through an iPhone. I have an Android based phone and have no real problem using the service (the look of the web page could be a little cleaner).
As long as you have a browser you should be able to use the service I would think…I wonder why they are being so specific with the iPhone.
Justin Martyr
Mar 10 2010 at 12:14pm
No way. The RSS readers are the best app. I’m surprised that a blogger wouldn’t agree. Stuck waiting to get your oil changed? Check your blogs.
I’m also mildly addicted to doodle jump.
Steve Z
Mar 10 2010 at 12:57pm
Grossarth-Maticek has made some pretty sweeping claims about the relationship of happiness (or attitude) to health. See here: http://www.attitudefactor.com/index.htm
(Hat tip to Hans Eysenck.)
It would be interesting to see an attitude jogging iPhone app. More interesting still is the possibility of validating Maticek’s findings (that attitude jogging significantly increases longevity) using said iPhone app (in tandem with a “dummy” app).
wesley
Mar 10 2010 at 4:50pm
I just signed up for it. I like it. Lots of sliding scale questions (how happy are you? how focused are you?) and check-the-box questions (are you talking with people? how many people are you talking with?), but they’re quick and easy to answer. I’m excited to see what the report eventually says. Maybe you can get your hands on the aggregate data in a few years…
wcublogger
Mar 11 2010 at 4:41pm
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Braden
Mar 13 2010 at 1:03pm
@Alex
Quite right. Bryan, if you have any phone with a good browser or can get to a computer at most times of the day, you don’t need an iPhone for this.
@aretae
This study actually somewhat responds to your criticism: not only does it have an initial survey about general life satisfaction, but it asks you every time you report about whether something in your past or future is making you happy or sad. IMHO, if something in your life isn’t actively affecting your emotions on a regular basis, it’s not meaningful to describe it as affecting some sort of meta-happiness.
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