Wayfeel
An emotional diary built on the thesis model. Private by construction — one person, no audience, no feed — because a record is only useful if there is no reason to perform it.
- Project
- Wayfeel
- Year
- 2024 — present
- Discipline
- Software
- Status
- In development
Why a diary and not a social app
The chambers work because nobody can see who is inside. The same constraint drives this. An emotional record that is shared is an emotional record that gets edited, so there is no audience layer, no feed, and no one to impress. The anonymity is the feature, not a privacy setting.
The interface problem is the one Elaine Scarry names in The Body in Pain: pain does not just resist language, it destroys it. A blank text box asks people to put language around a state that resists language, which is exactly the failure mode. So the input offers the feeling a shape to choose from and a name to accept or reject, and lets precision arrive later.
The model underneath
Emoequilibrium, the term I coined during the thesis: emotions behave like a chemical equilibrium, sitting on an anger-sadness axis, with crying as the reaction that returns the system to center. The app is an attempt to make that model operable — to log a state as a position rather than a word, and to see whether the return to center becomes visible over time.
It is a model derived from a thesis, not a validated instrument. I am not claiming it measures anything yet.
Status
In development, built solo. No users, no data, and no findings, which is the honest state of it. It goes live when there is something to use rather than something to sign up for.
