The iMoodJournal I talked about above is really good. I had trouble finding something that let me document frequently (because that's necessary for me) but was on more than a 5 point scale which was too restrictive. It lets you add tags to each entry although I'm not completely sure what good they do: I think when there is more data is shows you but I'm not using that much now. It reminds you 3 times a day (you can turn that off) and has a 10 point scale. It exports to dropbox so you don't lose data and then you can email the data to yourself to turn into a spreadsheet (it comes as one, you just have to move a column to be set up for your chart and then depending what kind of chart you want you may have to click a few options). It did cost $2.00 but it was worth it. It's made something very painful for me in the past painless. I don't want to do this forever but for now it is clearly showing what I'm experiencing (although you'd have to have me explain how I am using the scale to understand that but I tried I think 4 or 5 programs and that was true for all of them) right now.

I see my dr at a very large hospital and they have everyone who comes in do a little computerized assessment before every visit. The reminder always comes on Wednesday night and I do it then so I don't forget. By Monday when I see my pdoc things have always shifted and so the data isn't very accurate. So the mood charting is I think a way to see why things don't match up although I'm pretty sure it's the 5 days between and my increased mania at night and I see her in late afternoon when it's at least incrementally better.

It was handy to email the charts to her the other day even though she would have gotten them on the holiday and so never saw them. But I tried and when I email again tomorrow she can look back for the prior email.