Eight feelings, thirty-two words
Turn the wheel until it's true.
Most days get flattened into fine, bad, okay. This wheel doesn't let you stop there — three rings turn from a broad feeling down to the exact shade of it, the way a focus ring turns until an image resolves.
Plutchik's four axes — every core feeling sits opposite the one that cancels it out
One path through the wheel. Because its three rings turn independently, there are 4,096 others — enough that "lonely" and "depressed" stop being synonyms for sad and start being different problems.
Calibrate it. Then save it, and watch the readout change over weeks.
An evening ritual
Some feelings need more than one word.
At the end of most days, "fine" is the last word anyone gives it. The wheel asks for two more turns — which kind of fine, and how much of it — before you let the day close.
Takes less time than brushing your teeth.
Anger, frustration, and resentment are not the same weather. One passes in an hour. One you carry into tomorrow. The wheel tells them apart even on nights when you're too tired to.
Thirty-two words, three unhurried turns, one place that's only yours.
A morning check-in
Name it, then narrow it.
Start broad — Joy, Fear, Sadness, five others — then let two more turns of the wheel find the word that actually fits. Takes less time than your coffee cools.
Turn one · broad
Joy
Turn two · closer
Content
Turn three · exact
Satisfied
Beyond good and bad
32 specific words on the outer ring, not two.
Watch it change
Every entry adds a point to a chart of your own weather.
Just for you
Nobody sees the wheel turn but you.
Your wheel is waiting.
Your account has been deleted.
Note (optional)
Intensity by emotion, over time
Entries by emotion
Recent entries
About Emotions Wheel
Emotions Wheel helps you name what you're feeling at three levels of detail, and track it over time - built on the classic "wheel of emotions" used widely in psychology and coaching to help people move from a vague "I feel bad" to something specific and useful, like "I feel disappointed."
Why track your emotions?
- Awareness. Naming a feeling precisely is the first step to understanding it - research on "affect labeling" shows that simply putting a feeling into words can reduce its intensity.
- Pattern recognition. Logging regularly surfaces patterns you'd otherwise miss: certain days, people, or situations that reliably shift your mood.
- Better conversations. A specific vocabulary makes it easier to talk about how you're doing - with a therapist, a partner, or yourself.
- Progress over time. A history you can look back on shows real change, which is easy to lose track of day to day.
How to use it
- Drag each of the three rings so the word that matches how you feel lines up with the arrow at the top - start broad on the inner ring and get more specific as you move outward.
- Set an intensity from 1 (barely there) to 5 (as strong as it gets).
- Add an optional note with any context worth remembering.
- Hit Save.
Open History from the settings menu (the gear icon) any time to see your entries charted over time. Export JSON and Export CSV, in the same menu, download your full history.
Tips
- Log in the moment when you can - memory of intensity fades fast.
- There's no wrong answer. The goal is accuracy, not a "better" emotion.
- Even a quick daily check-in adds up to a useful history within a few weeks.