Hooks for a Gratitude Journal App

Gratitude prompts make some people feel managed. If that is your app, the hook has to leave room for a bad day.

Hooks

• "One thing that was fine. Not the best day of your life."
• "You can skip the day you have nothing polite to say."
• "Name a person, a meal, or a place. Concrete, not 'the universe.'"
• "A list you reread on a worse day. That's the feature."
• "No need to perform it for anyone."
• "The small version: the bus was on time."
• "If gratitude feels fake, call it a notice. What did you notice?"
• "Three lines is the max. We will not ask for ten."

Do not correct their feelings

Avoid "turn that frown around" energy. The people who need a record of ordinary good things are often tired. A small prompt respects that. A demand to be thankful does not.

Show a list of plain lines, not calligraphy. Plain looks like something they might actually type.