Meet Your Humeur

Behind Humeur is a simple idea, mindfully logging your mood provides valuable data about ourselves. We’re pretty good at noticing trends and pattens, but often fail to notice them in ourselves. This is especially true over time, weeks and months start to blur together, and we lose sight of our own patterns and outliers. When a clinician genuinely asks how we’re doing lately, we can struggle to remember the past few weeks.

Humeur is built around a digital alternative to mood journaling. Humeur is french for mood, and in the past keeping our Humours in balance was key to living well. Today Humeur makes journalling quick and easy, all while preserving nuance, in a form that can be useful to you or your desired health care professional.

Humeur lets you log how you feel each day, both morning and evening. You can then look back over weeks, months, or years to see the changes and patterns in your mood. The goal isn't to turn your feelings into a spreadsheet. It’s to serve as a useful tool for you and your primary care provider (PCP). If you don’t have a PCP, Humeur can help with that too, more on that later. Even without a PCP it can still be useful to realize your own mood data.

Start with one mood

A mood journal doesn't need to be complicated.

With Humeur, a daily entry starts with as a mood cell, which can also record 2 different moods for the morning and evenings. There’s also an option to add a note when there's something you want to remember, but you don't need to write a full journal entry every time. Notes can be either freeform text, or add some structure so you can notate things like: meds, sleep, exercise, and potential stressors.

Some days you might have plenty to say:

Had a difficult morning and forgot to take my meds, but things improved after spending the evening with friends.

Other days, you might just want to record how you're feeling and move on. Both are valid. The point is to create a record without it feeling like a chore. Even a day with no log, can serve as an important data point.

The interesting part happens when you look back

One day is not a history, but it can be the beginning of one. That's where Humeur's time scales come in. You can swap between day, week, month, and year views to see your mood history under different lenses.

A day can help you take a moment to be mindful and record your feelings and what’s occurred today.

A week can help you look at what's been happening recently.

A month gives you more distance and makes broader changes easier to see.

A year lets you step back even further and consider your mood history as a whole.

The purpose isn't to tell you what your mood means. Humeur isn't a diagnostic tool, and it isn't intended to replace professional care.

Instead, it gives you something concrete to reflect on. It also gives your primary care provider more detail on your mood history.

You might notice a darker period that you had forgotten about. You might see that a change you saw as sudden was actually gradual. Or you might simply have a clearer record to bring into a conversation with your clinician, if you choose. Humeur is explicitly designed to support reflection and, when useful, sharing aspects of your history with a healthcare professional.

Your journal doesn't have to start with an account

Humeur also takes a flexible approach to getting started.

In guest mode, entries are stored in your browser's localStorage. If you later sign in, Humeur can offer to import that existing history for you. If you decline, your local data remains untouched but doesn’t sync between your devices.

That means you can start with the simplest possible setup and decide later whether you want an account.

Sync when you need it and Encryption

When you do sign in, Humeur uses Supabase for authentication and data storage.

Signed-in users can sync their mood history across devices, while Row Level Security (RLS) protects access to their data. Your notes and admission records are also Encrypted end to end, meaning your data is stored as cipher text illegible to anyone except yourself.

The distinction between local and synced use is important. If you're experimenting with Humeur or only use one device, local storage may be enough. If you don need sync or encrypted data, you can still access the same features as a subscribed user.

If you want your journal available across devices, signing in gives you a way to keep that history synchronized and safely encrypted.

Help when you need it

If you’re in crisis, Humeur will suggest crisis line supports for your region Humeur also has a provider search feature still in alpha, the search currently allows you to find the nearest hospital. The roadmap plan for provider search is to find not just hospitals, but also therapists, psychologists and other mental health care supports

A simple place to start

If you're new to mood journaling, you don't need to create a complicated routine. Start with one entry, when ever it’s convenient for you. Add a note when there's something worth remembering. Then, every so often, look back.

Humeur isn't trying to diagnose you or explain your feelings for you. It's a tool for keeping a record — one that becomes more useful the longer you use it.

If that sounds like something you’d find useful, you can start exploring Humeur at humeur.dev.

Sometimes the most useful thing you can do with a feeling is give it space and to record it.