Mood Landscapes

Mood Landscapes turns the feelings you record into a landscape you can walk back through. You log a feeling by drawing a single stroke. Four strokes, learned in about a minute: a rising line for joy, a slow sweep down for sorrow, a short flick for anger, an inward curl for fear. Draw one and something grows — a bioluminescent flower, a still pool with reeds, a bramble, a bank of fog closing in. Every day is one screen. Swipe back through them and the landscape continues, day after day, as far as you have gone. Tap anything that grew to see when it happened. FOUR STROKES, NOT A QUESTIONNAIRE Drawing takes a second and asks nothing of you beyond the gesture. How hard and how fast you draw sets how strongly it reads — the shape says which feeling, the vigor says how much. The app shows you what it understood, and one tap corrects it if it read you wrong. It is a small vocabulary you learn,…