How SixLife computes your patterns
Nothing in SixLife is a black box. Every score, every card, every trend line is a fixed, explainable rule running on your own numbers — no model deciding what state you're in. Here's exactly how it works.
1. Six numbers, 0 to 100
Each check-in asks six short questions, one per dimension: mood, energy, calm, motivation, connection, and outlook. Every answer maps to a score from 0 to 100, and on every single dimension, higher is always better — including calm, which is really asking how much pressure you're under, just phrased so a high number always reads as the good direction.
2. The SixLife Score is the plain average
score = (mood + energy + calm + motivation + connection + outlook) / 6
No hidden weighting, no dimension counted twice. One number, one honest average.
3. Eighteen situations name the shape
Your six numbers together describe a shape — maybe your energy is high but your calm is low, or everything's steady but connection is the outlier. SixLife checks that shape against eighteen fixed situations (things like "Good Spirits, Low Fuel" or "Steady Under Pressure") and names the one that actually fits. Each situation comes with a short insight and one small, practical suggestion — never a diagnosis, never a prediction.
4. Thirty-six cards, one deck
Beyond the moment-to-moment situation, your check-in also matches one of thirty-six cards in the SixLife deck: six broad families (how the day is going overall) crossed with six defining dimensions (which one is doing the most talking). The match is a direct rule over your scores — see the full deck for what each card means.
5. Trends are smoothed on purpose
A single question about "energy" is noisier than two. SixLife rotates through several phrasings of each question, so two consecutive check-ins almost always ask a dimension in a different way. Averaging each point with the one before it pairs two different questions about the same dimension — which cancels out most of the noise from any one phrasing, without hiding real movement.
6. The overview number: now, weighted with everything
overview = 0.6 × latest check-in + 0.4 × window average
Your most recent check-in carries the most weight — "how are you doing" should mostly answer "right now" — but it's blended with the average across your recent window so one unusual hour doesn't rewrite the whole picture.
7. The one non-deterministic piece — and it's opt-in
Everything above runs entirely on your device, with fixed rules, for every user, always. There is exactly one optional exception: if you turn on the Daily recommendation in Settings, and a single day holds six or more check-ins, SixLife sends that day's six averaged scores to generate one short, personal recommendation — delivered once, the next morning from 6am. It's off by default, and every failure mode just keeps showing your last recommendation. Full detail in the privacy policy.