krausefx / mood

Keeping track of current level of happiness

[deprecated] I'm now using FxLifeSheet for my mood tracking

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mood

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Steve Jobs

Background

I've been a heavy user of 1 Second Everyday, where I created a very personal video of the full year for the last 730 days. (Check out a public sample video here)

One thing I noticed is that I associate the mood and happiness when seeing the videos, however, I know that this will slowly fade away as time passes.

I wanted a way to track my overall happiness and excitement in my life, allowing me to monitor, analyze and react to it. As Steve Jobs said, if you notice a downwards trend, it might be time to apply some changes to your life.

How it works

It's a simple Telegram Bot that will send you a message 3 times a day:

• One in the morning (I'd never reply to the bot before showering)
• One after lunch
• One when going to bed

You can always just text your bot a number, however, I know I'd forget it. That's why the bot sends you those reminders.

It then pulls up this really nice, optimized keyboard in Telegram, with a short description of what each number means.

If you forget to track a day, that's no big deal at all. The database is simple, it looks like this:

@_db.create_table :moods do
  primary_key :id
  DateTime :time
  Integer :value
end

I decided not to store the information about breakfast, lunch and dinner, as it would make time zones more complex, as I'm traveling quite a bit.

Future

Graphs

I want a nice visualization page & dashboard for this. Maybe even just send a weekly and monthly summary via Telegram?

Right now, just send /graph to your bot to get your historic mood as a simple graph.

Alerts

I want my bot to alert me when it detects a downwards trends. Similar to the stock trading approach, I was thinking of using the 7d average (7 days, 3 times a day => 21 data points). It's all relative, so if there is a downwards trends for 2 weeks, there probably is something bothering you

Integration into 1SE

I usually edit the 1SE videos slightly to have "subtitles" for some of the important life events. Additionally, I throw in the classic Every day of my life music.

Additionally, with that data, I want to overlay my happiness level somehow, probably in the form of a graph, a bar, or a wave. Not sure yet, but I got 11 months to figure that out.

How to use it

You'll have to setup a few things

• Create a Telegram bot using @BotFather and get the API key, and message ID with you
• Provide those values using TELEGRAM_TOKEN and TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID
  • To get the TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID, send a message to your bot and then access the following URL in your browser https://api.telegram.org/bot[TELEGRAM_TOKEN]/getUpdates. You'll see a message, and within that, the Chat ID to use
• And host it on any server, like Heroku, and use the Heroku scheduler feature to call rake morning, rake noon and rake evening
• Make sure the Heroku worker is enabled

mood's Issues

Request: Instructions to start running the server locally

I wanted to start up the server locally but I'm very unfamiliar with ruby, I suggest adding a Makefile with any commands necessary to get started locally.

Porting to Google Script

I am interested in using the project to another service, hopefully free, for personal use. Heroku seems to be a great solution but it is limited to restrictions such as Dynos down and not using Webhooks seem to be an issue.

The main targets could be:
1- Porting to a service such as GoogleScript
2- Rewriting the time triggering for the three request each day.
3- Plotting or reporting section.

Do you think if could be done based on this project?

Scheduling Add-on?

Hey, just curious how you automate the tasks for rake morning etc? Do you use a Heroku Add-on? Or have a server somewhere?

Undefined method `strip` for nil:NilClass

First off, I wanted to say that Mood has been pretty awesome so far.
Thank you for building it, I really enjoy using it 👍

I noticed that my bot stopped responding after a bit so I checked out the Heroku logs and noticed that there was a crash. I'm unsure how this happened as it seemed like no invalid input was entered.

2018-02-22T17:29:52.170356+00:00 app[worker.1]: error sending the telegram notification
2018-02-22T17:29:52.170379+00:00 app[worker.1]: undefined method `strip' for nil:NilClass
2018-02-22T17:29:52.170381+00:00 app[worker.1]: /app/telegram_handler.rb:31:in `block (2 levels) in listen'
2018-02-22T17:29:52.170383+00:00 app[worker.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/telegram-bot-ruby-0.8.6.1/lib/telegram/bot/client.rb:38:in `block in fetch_updates'
2018-02-22T17:29:52.170385+00:00 app[worker.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/telegram-bot-ruby-0.8.6.1/lib/telegram/bot/client.rb:33:in `each'
2018-02-22T17:29:52.170386+00:00 app[worker.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/telegram-bot-ruby-0.8.6.1/lib/telegram/bot/client.rb:33:in `fetch_updates'
2018-02-22T17:29:52.170388+00:00 app[worker.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/telegram-bot-ruby-0.8.6.1/lib/telegram/bot/client.rb:25:in `listen'
2018-02-22T17:29:52.170389+00:00 app[worker.1]: /app/telegram_handler.rb:30:in `block in listen'
2018-02-22T17:29:52.170391+00:00 app[worker.1]: /app/telegram_handler.rb:85:in `perform_with_bot'
2018-02-22T17:29:52.170394+00:00 app[worker.1]: server.rb:3:in `<main>'
2018-02-22T17:29:52.170393+00:00 app[worker.1]: /app/telegram_handler.rb:29:in `listen'

This below screenshot is what I last entered prior to the responses stopping.
I added a small workaround to check for a nil message.text prior to parsing the input which happened at 1:32pm which seemed to resolve the issue. I'm curious to how this became nil though...

If you're accepting PRs, I can send a fix that checks if the text is not nil but otherwise I wanted to give a heads up.

Heroku free tier: dynos going idle after 30 minutes and then not waking up

Hi,
I have hosted this bot on the free tier of Heroku. As the bot uses long polling, when the dynos go idle after 30 minutes, they aren't awoken anymore when I send new requests through Telegram.

Some of you are running this bot successfully on the free tier of Heroku, right? How? Have you implemented webhooks onto this or something?

Can I self host the db?

Not saying I don't trust you, and this PII isn't too bad to leak, I was simply wondering if you had thought about this at all

EDIT: PS this is awesome. I'm loving all these side projects you're pushing out 🙃

Implicitly setting TELEGRAM_TOKEN and TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID values?

How can we implicitly set the values of TELEGRAM_TOKEN and TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID? So that the actual values aren't in plain sight in telegram_handler.rb.

I tried setting them as environmental values on my local machine, typing these lines in ~/.profile:

export TELEGRAM_TOKEN="<my-telegram-token>"
export TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID="<my-chat-id>"

But I guess that doesn't work when the bot is hosted on the cloud (Heroku).

My implementation of this bot is not working and I suspect it might be because of this.