Who writes Grateful'

I build Grateful', a gratitude journal for iOS, and I write everything published here — the blog, the research glossary and the prompt packs. The experience behind the writing is a builder's: I read the primary literature on gratitude, memory and mood because I have to decide what the app should actually do with it, and then I write down what the papers say.

I am not a psychologist, therapist or clinician, and nothing here is treatment advice. Where a study is small, old, or contested, the page says so instead of rounding it up into a promise. If you are dealing with something serious, talk to a professional — an app that asks you to write down three good things is not a substitute for one.

The standard the glossary is held to, and the reason the pages read the way they do:

• Every glossary entry links at least one real, findable study. Citations are checked against PubMed or the publisher's own DOI record before the page ships — never written from memory, which is how plausible-sounding references that do not exist get published.
• Findings are described at the strength the paper supports. A single lab experiment is introduced as a single lab experiment.
• Definitions are one sentence. If a term needs three sentences to define, the entry is wrong about what the term means.
• Pages carry the date they were published and the date they were last reviewed, so you can see how stale what you are reading is.
• Nothing about your journal entries feeds any of this. What the app stores is in the privacy policy.

If a citation on this site is wrong, misattributed, or overstates what a paper found, I want to know and I will fix the page. Email contact@bobdeyagyesh.in with the page and the problem. Corrections change the reviewed date on the page.

Grateful' is free on iOS. It asks for three good things a day, keeps them private to your account, and is built around the research the glossary describes — three good things, the peak-end rule and negativity bias.

Download Grateful' on the App Store