About YU Understood

At YU, we want you to stop. Take a moment to reflect, to think about how you feel. By recording your emotions using our app, we can provide data insights on connections between emotions and other factors, like people and activities, that otherwise go unnoticed. YU can help to make you more self-aware, and this knowledge is key – it can unlock the power to make positive changes that can lead to a more conscious and fulfilled life.

We believe that knowing yourself better is the first step towards improved well-being, and we’ve created YU to help you get there. Taking a minute or two to reflect on how a particular event made you feel can help strip away the distractions of daily life and allow you to focus fully on your thoughts and emotions. Capturing the important information that goes with that moment – where you are, who you are with and what you are doing – adds depth and context that can be used to see patterns in behaviour that you might not otherwise be aware of. Learning what makes you tick and what brings you down can help pinpoint ways to improve your well-being.
YU allows you to record your daily activity in a few simple steps by writing about how you feel and what you did during the day. You can capture a moment in around one minute, but we advocate taking your time – time spent investing in your own mental health and well-being is time well spent. No matter how long you choose to spend, the goal is to make it easy for anyone to start a habit of self-reflection every day, with no pressure to write lengthy paragraphs (although you can write as much as you want!)
Download YU and start learning about the most important person in the world, you.

YU FEATURES

CAPTURE A MOMENT

• Select how you are feeling on a scale from 1 to 10
• Think about what emotions you are experiencing
• Relate the moment to a life aspect
• Who are you with right now?
• What are you doing?
• Where are you doing it?
• Add more detail with a journal entry
• Add photos to make it memorable

ANALYTICS

• See how stable or variable your mood is
• Check how your mood changes over time
• Is your life balanced? You can see how you’ve been feeling in each key area of your life
• Understand which emotions you feel most often, and when
• See how frequently you spend time with certain people, or in certain places, and how that affects your mood
• Explore interesting statistics about your life on weekly, monthly or yearly charts
• Diver deeper into advanced statistics for every emotion, companion or activity

HOME

• View all of your moments
• Remember how you felt on specific occasions
• Revisit a moment and read your old journals

By reviewing your data using our analytics, you can keep track of your average scores, see changes over time, and make connections between people, places and activities and your overall mood. You can monitor how balanced your life is by how your moments are spread across different areas of your life, and see a whole year of moments in Year at a Glance.

We often go about our day without really thinking about what we’re doing or why. Viewing the statistics of your life will help you gain a greater understanding of your daily activity and related emotions, and will help transform the unconscious into the conscious. Once you have this enhanced knowledge of yourself, you can use it to make better decisions, and improve your well-being.