Introducing Session Summary Exports
Short answer: Daylogue’s new Session Summary Exports turn two weeks of daily check-ins into a clean, shareable overview — mood trends, recurring themes, flagged moments — that you can review yourself or bring to a therapy or coaching session. It works because memory for emotional states is unreliable ([Kahneman, 2000](https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803475.039)), and structured between-session context is one of the things that makes therapy work better ([Kazantzis et al., 2016](https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000128)).
A session summary takes your daily check-ins and turns them into a clear, shareable overview of your recent emotional life. Use it however you want. Review it yourself before a big week. Bring it to a therapy or coaching session. Share it with someone you trust. Or just read it and notice what stands out.
The Problem We Solved
You have been checking in daily. You have been honest about how you feel. But when someone asks, "How have things been?" you draw a blank. Two weeks of your emotional life reduced to "uh, pretty good I think?"
This is not a failure of memory. It is a limitation of how human memory works. We are not good at accurately recalling our emotional states across time. We remember peaks and endings but lose the middle ground where real patterns live.
Daylogue already helps you capture how you feel in real time. Now we are making it easy to step back and see the bigger picture, organized and ready for whatever you need it for.
What Is a Session Summary Export?
A session summary export is a summary document generated from your Daylogue check-ins. It compiles your mood data, energy levels, stress patterns, and notable entries into a single view.
Think of it as a highlight reel of your emotional life over the past two weeks. It pulls the signal from the noise so you can see what actually happened, not just what you remember happening.
Some people use it to prepare for therapy or coaching. Others use it for personal review at the end of a month. There is no single right way. The summary is yours.
How It Works
Generate Your Summary
- Go to your profile settings
- Tap "Generate Session Summary"
- Choose your date range (default: last 2 weeks, but you can adjust)
- Review the preview and make any edits
- Export or share
The whole process takes about two minutes.
What Is Included
Your session summary export contains:
- Mood trends - A visual chart of your daily mood scores over the selected period. This makes trends immediately visible. You can see at a glance if your mood has been declining, improving, or fluctuating.
- Key metrics - Average mood, energy, and stress levels for the period. These numbers give context. If your average mood was 4 out of 10, that tells a different story than 7 out of 10.
- Significant entries - Entries you marked as important or flagged for reflection. These are the moments you wanted to come back to.
- Theme summary - A summary of recurring themes across your entries. If work stress showed up six times but you only mentioned it once out loud, the theme summary catches that.
- Questions worth exploring - Topics you flagged during your check-ins. As you reflect daily, you can mark thoughts with "come back to this" and they will appear here.
- Notable patterns - Any patterns Daylogue detected, like mood drops on specific days or correlations between activities and how you felt.
Sharing Options
You have full control over how you use and share your summary:
- PDF export - Download a formatted PDF for printing or emailing. Great for personal records, or for sharing with a therapist, counselor, or coach.
- Secure share link - Generate a temporary link you can text or email to anyone you trust. They click the link and see your summary. The link expires after 7 days for security.
- In-app viewing - Review everything in the app before exporting. You can remove anything you do not want to include.
Privacy First
We know this data is sensitive. Your emotional life is the most private thing about you. Here is how we protect it:
- You control sharing. Nothing is ever shared without your explicit action. The summary only generates when you request it. No one else sees anything unless you choose to send it.
- Time-limited links. If you use the share link option, it expires after 7 days. After that, the link stops working.
- No third-party access. We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers. We do not use it for anything except helping you.
- End-to-end encryption. Your journal vault entries and encrypted check-in notes are encrypted so that even we cannot read your raw words. Summaries are kept separate from your original reflections. The session summary is generated on your device, keeping your data private.
- Delete anytime. If you want to remove a summary or any entries, you can do that instantly. We do not keep copies.
How People Use Summaries Like This
There are a few common ways a session summary fits into a real life:
- Personal review. Reading two weeks of your own emotional data back to yourself, on your own, with no audience. The most common use case, because the summary is doing what memory cannot — surfacing the middle ground between the peaks and the endings ([Kahneman, 2000](https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803475.039)).
- Therapy prep. Bringing a summary into a session means the first ten minutes do not get spent reconstructing the last two weeks. Research on therapy homework adherence ([Kazantzis et al., 2016](https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000128)) finds that structured between-session work is associated with stronger treatment outcomes.
- A flagged theme that surprised you. Sometimes the theme summary surfaces something you have been avoiding — work coming up in nearly every entry when you kept telling yourself it was fine, or sleep showing up as the variable underneath everything else.
The summary does not interpret. It just collects what you already wrote and makes it readable in one sitting.
How to Get the Most Out of It
Here are some tips for using session summary exports effectively:
Track consistently. The summary is only as good as the data you put in. Even a quick 1-10 mood rating each day gives you something to work with.
Flag what matters. When something comes up during a check-in that you want to come back to, mark it. Do not trust yourself to remember.
Review on your own first. Take five minutes to read through your summary before sharing it with anyone. Note what surprises you.
Share if you want to. If you work with a therapist, counselor, or coach, a summary can save time and deepen the conversation. But sharing is always optional.
Use it as a starting point. The summary is not the whole story. It is a foundation. What you notice in it is often more interesting than what it says.
Try It Today
Session summary exports are available now for all Daylogue Premium subscribers. If you are on the free plan, you can still export a basic summary with your mood trends.
Your reflections already contain more insight than you realize. The session summary just makes it easier to see.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to share the summary with anyone?
No. The summary is for you. Plenty of people use it just to review their own patterns without ever sharing it. The sharing features are there if you want them.
Can I use it for something other than therapy?
Absolutely. People use session summaries for personal check-ins, coaching sessions, conversations with their partner, or just to reflect at the end of a month. It is your data. Use it however it helps.
Can I edit the summary before sharing?
Yes. You can remove any entries or sections you do not want to include. You control exactly what anyone sees.
Your reflections tell a story. The session summary helps you read it.
