New in Brightn: Smarter Insights and a Plan That's Yours

Two updates just landed in Brightn. One helps you understand what has been going on. The other lets you do something about it.

Insights has been rebuilt around your story and your data. And your weekly plan is now yours to shape, with custom activities you create, edit, and manage yourself. Here is how both work.

Checking in is the easy part. Making sense of it later is where most people get stuck. You know you had a rough stretch, but you cannot always say why. You know something has been lifting you, but it is hard to name.

And once you do see it, you need somewhere to put it. A plan that fits your actual life, not a generic one.

That is what these two updates are about.

Insights, rebuilt

Prefer to watch? Here is a quick walkthrough of everything new in Insights.

Tap Insights in the bottom right of your home screen. You will land on the Story view for the current week by default.

From there you have two tabs at the top, Story and Data, and a Weekly or Monthly toggle just below. Every combination works, so you can look at your week in words, your month in numbers, or anything in between.

Story: your week, in plain language

The Story tab reads your entries back to you. It is the view to open when you want to understand what has been going on without digging through charts.

Data: the numbers behind the story

Tap the Data tab in the top right if you are the kind of person who wants to see it all laid out. Same entries, different lens.

• This Month. Words journaled, mood check-ins, and wellness tasks completed. Three numbers that show your consistency at a glance.
• Mood Trend. Your moods plotted over time on the five tier scale, so you can see the shape of a stretch instead of just single days.
• Mood Intensity Map. A calendar view of your month with an intensity score on every day you checked in. Easy way to spot which days of the week tend to run heavier.
• Entry Frequency. How often you checked in, broken out week by week. Useful when you are trying to build the habit and want to see it working.
• Emotion Categories. Your emotions sorted into bigger groups like Self-Assurance, Drive, Contentment, and Disconnection, ranked by how often they came up.
• All Emotions. A tag cloud of every emotion you logged, with counts. Sometimes the fastest way to see what a month was really made of.

Weekly or monthly, your call

Both tabs work in both views. Weekly is good for a quick reset and for catching something early. Monthly is where the bigger patterns start to show up, the ones that are hard to see when you are living inside them.

A lot of people find it useful to check the weekly view on a Sunday and then look at the monthly view once at the end of the month. You do not have to do either. It is there when you want it.

Custom activities: build the plan around your life

Noticing a pattern is step one. Doing one small thing about it is step two. That got a lot easier.

You can now add your own activities to your weekly plan. Not just the ones we suggest. Anything you want to stay consistent with, in your words, at your pace.

How to add one

1. On your home screen, find My Week's Plan and tap Add activity.
2. You will see a list of suggested activities based on your entries. Tap the plus on any of them to add it, or tap Create my own in the top right to build one from scratch.
3. Give it a short, clear name. Something like "20 push ups" or "Meditation class."
4. Choose how often. One-time for just this week, or Daily, Weekly, or Monthly if you want it to keep coming back.
5. Tap Add to plan. It shows up in your weekly plan right away.

Add as many as you want. When you finish one, check it off and it is marked complete.

Manage your activities anytime

Plans change. If something is not working, you do not have to live with it.

Go to your profile, then Settings, then My Activities. From there you can add new activities, edit the ones you have, or remove anything that is no longer serving you. Change a name, adjust how often it repeats, or clear it out entirely.

It is worth a look every few weeks. A plan you keep tuning is a plan you keep using.

Why this matters

Most plans fail because they belong to someone else. A generic checklist is easy to ignore. A plan with your gym class, your morning walk, and your Sunday call to your mom on it is a plan you actually recognize.

It also connects back to Insights. If What Lifts vs Lowers You shows that goals or movement have been a Booster, you can add more of that to next week's plan in about thirty seconds. If something has been draining you, you can build in one small reset around it.

One thing worth saying

Insights reflects what you have logged. It is a mirror, not a diagnosis, and it is not a substitute for care from a professional. If something in your entries feels heavier than a rough week, that is worth talking to someone about, and Brightn can help you take that next step when you are ready.

The point of all this is not to score yourself. It is to notice things a little sooner, so you can do something small about them while they are still small.

Open the app, check your Insights, and add one thing to this week's plan.