Every entry in slowbloom carries a little context beyond the words: a mood colour you choose, and any tags you'd like to add. They make it easier to look back later and to see the shape of how you've been feeling, without turning your journal into a spreadsheet.
Mood colours
When you write an entry, you pick a mood colour from a small palette of calm tones. There's no right answer and no need to overthink it. Just choose the one that feels closest to where you are today.
Your mood colours show up across your flower, so a week of writing becomes a gentle, glanceable picture of your moods rather than a chart you have to read.
Tags
Tags are short labels you add to an entry, written with a # in front, like #work or #sleep or #gratitude. Use whatever words help you. There's no fixed list, and you can add as many or as few as you like.
Later, you can filter your entries by tag to find everything you wrote about a particular theme. It's a quiet way to notice patterns over time.
What stays private
Your tags are part of the entry, so they're encrypted in your browser along with everything else you write. The server never sees them in readable form.
Your mood colour is treated as metadata rather than secret content, so it isn't encrypted the same way. It's just a colour, with no words attached, but it's worth knowing the difference.
Tip: you don't have to use tags at all. Many people just write and pick a colour. Tags are there if and when looking things up later becomes useful to you.
To learn more about how your writing is protected, see Data and privacy.