Your Dashboard Explained

Your Dashboard is the home base of your Psalmlog experience — a living snapshot of your spiritual practice. Here's a section-by-section guide to what you'll find, on both web and mobile.

Weekly and Monthly Views

A toggle at the top switches your Dashboard between Weekly and Monthly. Weekly is your working view — where you are right now. Monthly zooms out to your calendar, heatmap, and Scripture coverage.

For a full look back at a whole month, see Monthly Insights, which lives on its own Insights tab.

Stats Row

Three numbers sit at the top of your Dashboard:

Sessions — the total number of journal sessions you've completed.
Active Days — how many distinct days you've journaled in the current period. Three sessions in one day still counts as one active day.
Power of 4 — a ring showing your progress toward four sessions this week, with a note telling you how many more days would get you there.

Four sessions a week is the point where your Insights have enough to work with. It's the one number worth aiming at.

Begin Your Practice

If you're new or still on the Free plan, a Begin your practice card sits near the top of your Dashboard with a short checklist:

Write your first session
Read your guidance
Try one of the features you haven't yet — track a step, generate a Psalmcast, or share a Psalmstory
Come back and journal on a second day

Every item checks itself off from your actual activity — there's nothing to mark manually. The card retires on its own once you're an established subscriber, and you can dismiss it any time before that.

Spiritual Journey This Week

A timeline across the current week showing the spiritual state behind each day's sessions — resting, grateful, hopeful, seeking, trusting, wrestling, anxious, grieving, or doubting. Days you didn't journal stay open, a quiet nudge rather than a scold.

This replaced the older mood-dot row. States say more than moods do: "wrestling" and "seeking" describe something a smiley face can't.

Entry Depth Trend

How your sessions are evolving over time, tracking engagement and length. A rising trend usually means you're growing more comfortable opening up. Don't chase it, though — short entries on hard days still count. Showing up is the thing.

Biblical Theme Chips

Keyword tags representing the spiritual themes appearing across your sessions — "trust," "provision," "forgiveness," "patience." Tracked over time, they show you which threads Scripture keeps weaving through your journey.

Recent Sessions

Quick access to your latest sessions. Tap or click any one to revisit the full reflection and the guidance you received.

Consistency Heatmap

Your journaling contribution grid, similar to what you'd see on a developer's profile page. Each cell is a day; the deeper the color, the more you wrote. It makes your patterns obvious at a glance — whether you're a weekday journaler, whether weekends slip, whether a hard month showed up as silence.

Calendar

A month view of exactly which days you journaled. Tap any date to revisit that session. On Faith Builder and above, you can also sync your journaling schedule to your personal calendar.

Scripture Breadth

Which books of the Bible have appeared in your guidance. Over time you'll watch this expand — often into books you'd never have opened on your own.

Walking It Out

If you have steps you're tracking, your Dashboard points you toward them, and a small dot appears on the Walk tab in your navigation whenever something is active. See Walking It Out for how tracking works, and Understanding Your Guidance for how next steps are generated.

Weekly Pulse Card (Shepherd)

On the Shepherd plan, your Dashboard features a Weekly Pulse card — a curated summary of your week covering your top spiritual themes, growth patterns, and emotional trajectory. It's also delivered to your inbox, so you can reflect on your week even without opening the app.

Notification Bell

In the top corner you'll find your notifications:

Weekly Pulse availability (Shepherd)
Psalmcast episodes ready to listen (Faith Builder and above)
Walk check-ins on steps you're still carrying

Web vs. Mobile

On the web, your Dashboard is the Dashboard tab. The wider screen shows your stats, Spiritual Journey, and heatmap together without scrolling on most displays. Walk, Psalmcast, Insights, and Learn each have their own tab.
On mobile, your Dashboard is the Home tab, stacked vertically. The bottom bar carries Home, Guidance, and Psalmcast — with Walk joining them on Faith Builder and Shepherd. Start a session from What's on your heart? at the top of Home.

Tips for Using Your Dashboard

Watch the Power of 4 ring, not the streak. Four sessions a week is what turns your journaling into readable patterns.
Look for recurring theme chips. If the same theme keeps surfacing, that's worth dedicated time in Scripture.
Use the heatmap honestly. Gaps aren't failures — they're often the map of a hard season, and worth noticing.
Check your walk when you check your stats. Marking one step done is usually a better use of thirty seconds than reading another chart.

Next Steps

Monthly Insights — The deeper monthly view of your journey
Understanding Your Guidance — What each section of your guidance means
Subscription Plans & Pricing — Compare plans to unlock calendar sync, Insights, and Weekly Pulse