I HATE doing it and have never succeeded at it in the past. Because I'm always mixed and always have dysphoric mania it is really hard to know what to mark. But my psychiatrist has been asking for several months so I've been doing it for the last 2 1/2 weeks. I'm using a phone app called iMoodJournal (which works on android and iPhone, just sounds iPhone-ish). Since I'm in the midst of a nasty episode it's been interesting. The program has these fancy graphs that are great on the phone but don't download that I can see and when I contacted the company about that they never responded so I have to get the data sent to me, shift it to google sheets and make a chart using the spreadsheet. This takes about a minute now that I finally figured it out (it took a while to do that because I've not used a spreadsheet for something like that since college 20 years ago).

Right now all it shows are that my moods are way up and way down, all the time. I can make entries as many times per day as I want and they inevitably show mixed, mixed, mixed.

I will do this though because the only thing I hate more than mood charting is being asked to rate things on a 1-10 scale. When they do that they are just asking severity of whatever is going on and since I may be happening to feel depression that isn't as severe as the manias at the moment I'm asked I can be totally inaccurate. It really annoys me. (And then the hospital uses 1-10 scale another way entirely so that it is even more complicated than it started out which was plenty complicated.) So my theory is if I do the mood charting for a while maybe it will stop people from asking me to put things on that awful 1-10 scale. (I did have to kind of modify the scale iMood gives to meet my own needs but it even lets you change the labels of the various points although I've been too lazy to do that and it doesn't matter since the graph that goes to the dr with me is in number form).

It's still not my favorite thing by any means but I am used to it now which is a good thing.