Change Log

Important Note:

There will be typos, grammatical errors, misspellings, and mistakes on this page. My goal is to try to document as much as possible for all large changes. However, I most likely will not be heavily proof-reading this page. So please accept my apologies for any mistakes you may find.

UPDATE April 28th, 2022 : Updates to Chatbot for Emotion and Sentiment

I began working towards the system being able to evaluate emotion and sentiment from gratitude journal entries. Currently these new steps are only being performed on gratitude journal entries sent via text (SMS). This is only the first step of many to make this a useful feature. The ultimate goal is for the system to recognize a user that is struggling and better suggest activities to help the user. I'll post future updates to this functionality as the updates are completed.

UPDATE April 26th, 2022 : March Focus Group Data Analysis

In March I organized a focus group to evaluate the efficacy of the activities with Take 2 Minutes. The group participants started by completing a mDES questionnaire to establish their baseline ratio of positivity to negativity. Then, each participant completed a 15 day Three Good Things exercise and a 21 day gratitude journaling exercise. At the conclusion of the month, 31 days later, they each completed another mDES questionnaire.

The results of the mDES questionnaires were very clear that the activities helped each person who fully participated move to a more positive mindset.

The results and focus group data will be used to improve the functionality of Take 2 Minutes and I will possibly consider offering future focus groups.

UPDATE April 23rd, 2022 : Updates to Administration

A bunch of administrative changes and additions were made over the past few days to help me support users. Nothing of any real value to end-users except giving me the ability to better assist when assistance is needed with the system.

UPDATE April 19th, 2022 : Updates to Group Summary Page - User Licensing Status

The Groups functionality is growing in popularity and it has been my focus of many updates. As more coaches, counselors, therapists, groups, companies, and clinicians are purchasing Group license plans that give them licenses for their clients, I realized it would be beneficial to show you, the group admin/owner which of your clients has full access to Take 2 Minutes. More to the point, as some users purchase a 10 pack of licenses, but invite 15 of their clients to use Take 2 Minutes, it was not clear to them which users had full access and were consuming one of their licenses and which were simply using the free-service plan. Obviously, you can have both clients with a full-service license and clients on a free-service plan; however, the clients on a free plan will have limits to their usage. As such, it was important for you to be albe to see which clients had which service plan.

For much of that description, I realized I was referencing the clinician/client relationship for the Groups functionality; however, all of the same ideas apply for any usage of the Groups functionality. For instance, if you are a business with a 20-pack of licenses but you recently hired your 21st employee, it is beneficial for you to see the entire group and who may not be covered by your licenses.

In this update were also small bug fixes that were recognized which resulted in a new user being added to a Group and not receiving a license even though the group owner/admin had available licenses. This small bug should be corrected, but I will continue to monitor in the event it persists.

UPDATE April 17th, 2022 : Updates to Articles and Stories - Filter by Author

I have recently engaged a handful of writers to begin producing new content for the articles and stories section. My hopes are to release new content once to twice per week and ensure all content is relevant to the users of Take 2 Minutes. With the new content coming, I am making small improvements to that section, such as: the ability for signed-in users to vote on an article, and the ability for all users to filter the articles by author.

Part of the goal of Take 2 Minutes is to showcase others who provide content and assistance to Take 2 Minutes. You will see this in areas such as the meditations, where I show the author and/or who voiced the meditation. Similarly, I have added a biography of each author that is included at the top of their writings. These authors do a great job in providing meaningful content to Take 2 Minutes and I greatly appreciate their work.

Also as part of this update, I added a Sneak Peak section showcasing the next, upcoming article and it's release date. This will allow you to see the next article and see it the article interests you. As a future update, I am considering allowing paid subscribers to get a notification of articles when they are released. Obviously, just like all of the activities, this is something you would configure if desired.

UPDATE April 10th, 2022 : Updates to Groups - Push Links to Group Members

An earlier update allowed group owners/admins to send text messages through the system to their group members. This is an addition to that functionality to allow a group admin/owner to include a link to one of a few activities. It was recognized that group owners/admins were asking group members, for instance, to take a flourishing scale test. In some cases it was found the user did not know how to initiate that test. So I added some options to simply create and send a link with messages to group members.

UPDATE April 2nd, 2022 : Updates to Groups - Send Messages Through T2M

Groups functionality updated to allow group owners/admins to send text messages through the system to their group members. This was found to be an important update during the March Focus Group activities because group owners/admins may need to make suggestions about activities or send follow-up to group members. This allows the group administrators todo so without sending a text message through their, personal mobile device which would expose their, personal telephone number. It is essentially a means of communication with group members through the T2M system.

UPDATE March 6th, 2022: Updates to Groups - View Reminders by Group Member

The groups overview screen was updated to allow the group owners/admins to see the reminders and activities each group member is setup to receive. This gives the group owner/admin a quick-glance view of which activity reminders are setup for each group member; thus, if you have asked everyone to partake in a three good things exercise, you can quickly see who has and who has not setup that activity.

UPDATE March 1st, 2022: I Did Not Start Tracking Changed Until Early March, 2022

The first version of, what is now, Take 2 Minutes was developed in 2015. In 2017, I began having talks around what needed to be done to help more people. In 2018, I was lucky enough to meet many knowledgeable psychologists and have many discussions around activities in the field of Positive Psychology. I spent much of 2018 and 2019 heavily developing the first version of Take 2 Minutes (then called The Love Co). In 2020 the name was changed to Take 2 Minutes and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit. The product has been in a constant state of development and really came into a robust, solid product in late 2021.

Ironically, in early 2021 I started a change log page, but I did not keep it up as needed. Somewhere along the way, the entries were lost as I did not maintain the page. Hopefully, this time I can make it a habit to continually update this page as I make enhancements - which happen weekly if not daily.