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Good things: three lines at the end of the day
A hard day leaves the hard parts in your head and lets the rest slip away. This page is a small notebook for the rest. At the end of a day, write up to three things that went well, or went less badly than they could have, and what made each one happen. On a later day, when nothing feels good, the page can show you one of those lines again, in your own words.
Good to know
How it works
- Today has three boxes. Fill one, two or three. Under each is a second box for what made it happen, or what your part in it was. You can leave that one empty.
- Keep this day saves the lines. One entry a day: keeping the same day again replaces it. You can also fill in any of the last six days.
- Nothing comes? The page lists 18 places to look, three at a time.
- Read one back shows one line from an earlier day, with its date. Press again for another.
- Print my good things makes a sheet of your newest 30 days with room to write more by hand.
What this page can’t do
- It cannot remind you. It has no alarm and sends no message.
- It is not treatment or therapy, and it does not diagnose anything.
- It cannot promise that writing these lines will change how you feel. For some people it does nothing, and some find it makes a bad day feel worse. If that is you, stop. Nothing is lost.
- It does not count streaks or score you. A day you did not write is not shown and is not counted.
- Your lines do not move to another phone or computer by themselves. Print them, download them, or use My data on this device to carry a backup across.
What this page is not asking
- It is not asking you to feel grateful, to cheer up, or to look on the bright side.
- It does not say the bad parts of the day were not real, or that they matter less.
- A day with nothing good in it happens. On that day, leave the boxes empty. That is not a failure.
- “Good” can be very small, and it can be “less bad than I feared”.
- If the hard parts need somewhere to go, Thought check and Worry time are for those.
These are everyday ideas in our own words. They are not advice from a clinician, and they do not suit everyone.
Where the idea comes from
Writing down three things that went well at the end of the day, and why they went well, is an exercise from positive psychology that is often called Three Good Things. This page borrows that one plain idea. It is not that program, it is not a study of it, and nobody trained in it has looked at this page. If low mood has lasted for weeks, read When the heaviness won’t lift and talk to a doctor or a therapist if you can.
Tools that go with this
- A box for hard days: kind words, comforts, songs and photos to open when it is bad.
- Small things: one small thing to do on a low day.
- Mood and sleep diary: one tap a day, and a summary for a doctor.
- Name the feeling: find the word for what you feel.
- When you can’t sleep: for the night this page did not help with.
- When the heaviness won’t lift: what depression is, and where to get help.
- All the free tools, and how to save them on your phone.
The tool, the list of places to look and its wording were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). The wording is our own, and it was not reviewed by a clinician. Also in Spanish: Cosas buenas; both pages keep the same lines on this device. The page holds up to 366 days, shows the newest 30, and keeps them until you erase them. Found a mistake? Email [email protected].