Twice a day. That’s it.
Tidenote asks how you’re doing this morning, and how the day actually went tonight. The gap between those two answers is where the real pattern lives.
How are you starting today?
Logged. See you tonight.
Most mood trackers know what you felt. Almost none know why.
Tap-and-go trackers are fast — but a streak of emojis with no context is just a streak of emojis.
Deep symptom trackers capture everything — and hand you a wall of charts to interpret alone.
AI journaling apps promise insight — and mostly hand back a generic pep talk that could’ve been written about anyone.
Tidenote does one structurally different thing: it asks twice. Once when the day is still ahead of you, once when it’s behind you.
“What’s one thing you’re excited or worried about today?”
One tap for your mood, one short line for what’s on your mind. Fifteen seconds, and the day has a starting point on record.
“What moment stood out today — good or bad?”
Same speed, looking the other direction. Not a full journal entry — just enough for the pattern underneath to have something to hold onto.
Most days, morning-you and evening-you don’t fully agree. That gap is the most useful data point in the whole app — and no once-a-day tracker can see it.
This week your morning mood dipped on Monday and Tuesday, but recovered by the weekend.
You mentioned “deadline” twice, both times before noon. If this keeps happening, Monday and Tuesday mornings might be worth protecting on your calendar.
Not a chart you have to interpret. Not a tip that could apply to anyone. A pattern, pulled from what you actually wrote, said back to you in one paragraph.
- Weekly insight, every 7 days
- A real recap at the end of each month
- A full Wrapped — like the one everyone shares every December, but for your year of mood, not your music
Your history view also shows a simple grid of your last few months — same idea as a GitHub contribution graph, but it tracks whether you showed up, never how good your mood was. A rough week fills the grid exactly the same as a great one.
The one time a year Tidenote stops whispering.
Every December, you get a Tide Wrapped — your standout weeks, your most-used words, your longest streak of actually showing up for yourself. It’s the one part of the app built to be shown to someone else, on purpose.
42days
Your longest streak of showing up for yourself this year.
Your vocabulary shifted from stressed to peaceful around October.
312
Check-ins
You showed up for yourself on 85% of days this year.
No leaderboard. No comparing your week to anyone else’s.
Other habit apps turn everything into a competition because competition is an easy way to keep people opening an app. We didn’t build one here, on purpose. Your mood isn’t a score, and a bad week isn’t a loss. The only thing Tidenote ever measures you against is your own data — never anyone else’s.
If you’re going through something heavier than a rough week, Tidenote will say so plainly and point you toward real help — not analyze it for content.
Your entries are private by default. No one reads them but you.
AI looks for patterns across your data — it never publishes, shares, or shows your raw entries to anyone.
You can export or delete everything, anytime, from Settings.
Free to start. Cheap enough to keep.
| Feature | Free | Tidenote+ |
|---|---|---|
| Twice-daily check-ins | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weekly insight | Last 4 weeks | Full history |
| Monthly recap | ✓ | ✓ |
| Yearly Tide Wrapped | Preview only | Full version |
| Deep pattern history | — | ✓ |
Tidenote+ — $7/month, or $49/year
Start free — no card neededMorning or night, there’s a question waiting.
Logged. See you tonight.
Takes about fifteen seconds. Your first real insight arrives in a week.