Reflection adds context to activity

Completion data can show that something happened. It cannot say how a person experienced their life. Orbit pairs activity with two reflective modes: momentary mood and periodic life-area assessment.

Mood on a circumplex

Mood is recorded with two continuous axes:

• Valence, from unpleasant to pleasant.
• Arousal, from deactivated to activated.

The interface maps these axes onto a circumplex, supports a label and source, and provides current and historical mood data. A journal endpoint can retrieve the reflection associated with a mood entry.

Shipped Mood can be created, edited, deleted, listed, and read as the latest entry. Counselor viewers can view shared mood in read-only mode.

Assessments

An assessment is a satisfaction score for a life area. It complements the wheel: activity indicates investment, while an assessment captures the person’s own sense of how that area is going. Assessments support create, read, update, and delete flows.

Design intent

Orbit does not infer wellbeing from activity volume. Mood and assessment remain first-person inputs, and the product treats them as reflection prompts rather than diagnoses.