Self-Journaling broken

[vpmv]

Description / 问题描述

Self journaling consists of four features present in Monica (v5), that aren't fully integrated in Bonds:

• Life metrics
• Life events
• Journal
• Mood

In Monica v5 (Chandler) there's the following:

• On the vault dashboard there are three tabs (the last used tab is remembered on navigation / refresh):

  1. Activity in this vault. This tab correlates to Bonds' Feed tab and is unrelated to the issue.
  2. Your life events. This tab allows users to input events that can be configured in the Vault settings, like Transport, Sports, Work, Social.
     Bonds' Vault Settings also allows to configure these, but they aren't actually implemented. Not for the user and not for contacts.
  3. Life metrics. This feature allows to add an arbitrary "Life Goal". After creation a button is shown "+1", simply counting the instances, days, times per month / year. There's no functionality for linking a contact - such as we currently see in Bonds.

• On the vault dashboard, next to the tab container, in a static sidebar, you can track your mood. Mood parameters are configured in Vault Settings. In Bonds we can setup Mood parameters in Vault Settings, but not keep track of it either.
  Bonds appears to show these in the Reports tab. Since there's no data, this section is just for show.

Currently Life Metrics within Bonds seems to be a hybrid dysfunctional implementation of Monica's Life Metrics & Life Events.
I think we can consolidate these features on the dashboard or Journal tab, in separate container groups. I'm not a particular fan of the tabbed layout.

Steps to Reproduce / 复现步骤

not applicable

Expected Behavior / 期望行为

see description

Actual Behavior / 实际行为

see description

Environment / 环境信息

latest build

Additional Context / 补充信息

Life Events should also be able to apply to Contacts. Monica allows for this, but Bonds doesn't.

[naiba]

All four self-journaling features from Monica v5 have been implemented in commit 7a9054d:

What's changed

Life Metrics — Completely redesigned to follow Monica v5's event-log pattern:

• Each "+1" click creates a row in contact_life_metric (with UserID + CreatedAt)
• Stats (weekly/monthly/yearly) computed from pivot row timestamps
• Monthly bar chart detail view via GET /lifeMetrics/:id/detail
• Removed the old contact-association model

Vault Dashboard — 3-column layout matching Monica v5:

• Left sidebar: Recent Contacts + Most Consulted
• Center: Segmented tabs — Activity (Feed) / Your Life Events / Life Metrics
• Right sidebar: Mood Summary (read-only from reports API) + Upcoming Reminders + Due Tasks
• Tab state persisted to DB via PUT /vaults/:id/defaultTab
• Responsive: 3-col ≥1024px, 2-col 768–1023px, 1-col <768px

Mood Tracking — Moved from Contact detail to Dashboard right sidebar (read-only summary). Contact detail no longer has a mood module, matching Monica v5's behavior.

Journal — Already correctly implemented, no changes needed.

Life Events — New vault-level dashboard tab via GET /vaults/:id/dashboard/lifeEvents.

Tests

• All 1014 backend tests pass
• 129 frontend unit tests pass
• 180 E2E tests pass (also fixed several pre-existing flaky tests)

CI: https://github.com/naiba/bonds/actions/runs/22961945732 ✅

[vpmv]

The new dashboard looks really good. Sadly it's not fully functional yet:

• The tab life events is empty and doesn't allow additions
• Mood displays all moods in a column, with what seems to be a counter, but no way to actually set the mood. In Monica this acts as follows:
  • A button "Record your mood"; on click:
  • Mood selection (radio buttons)
  • Buttons:
    • change date (defautls to today)
    • note (show a textbox)
    • number of hours slept (shows a number input)

[naiba]

@vpmv Thanks for the feedback! You're right — two pieces are not fully functional yet:

Life Events tab — The tab currently shows events but doesn't support adding new ones directly from the dashboard. In Monica, this is tied to the user's own Contact record in the vault (user.getContactInVault(vault)).

Mood recording — The backend API for recording mood events is fully implemented (POST /contacts/:id/moodTrackingEvents with parameter selection, date, note, hours slept), but the dashboard widget is currently read-only. Monica's flow (radio buttons → optional date/note/sleep → submit) needs to be wired up on the frontend.

Both features require activating the UserVault.ContactID mapping (each vault user auto-linked to their own Contact), which Bonds has the field for but doesn't populate yet. This is a prerequisite for both mood recording and personal life events.

I'll track this in a follow-up issue.

[naiba]

Resolved across v0.7.0 and v0.7.1:

v0.7.0 (7a9054d):

• Life Metrics redesigned to Monica v5 +1 event-log pattern (pivot table per click, stats from timestamps)
• Vault Dashboard rewritten: 3-column layout with Segmented tabs (Activity / Life Events / Life Metrics)
• Mood tracking moved from Contact Detail to Dashboard right sidebar
• Tab state persisted via PUT /vaults/:id/defaultTab
• Responsive: 3-col ≥1024px, 2-col 768–1023px, 1-col <768px

v0.7.1 (d7e110e):

• UserVault.ContactID auto-population (shadow contact per user per vault)
• Interactive mood recording widget (radio + progressive disclosure)
• Life events tab with add modal (category → type cascading)
• Full test coverage: 1014+ backend, 183 E2E