Notice what you keep returning to
Some things you circle for months without ever saying so. Threads gathers the themes that genuinely recur — with the dated entries behind each one — so you can watch how your thinking moves, without ever tagging or filing a thing.
Gathered in Insights, opened when you want them
Threads sit quietly in one place rather than interrupting you with what they’ve noticed.
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Inside a thread
Its summary, how many entries it was drawn from, and each of those moments with its date.
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Where they live
Each thread carries its own span of dates. They sit in Insights, just above the mood timeline.
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How your thinking changed
Ask a thread how it has moved and it answers in prose — where you started, what shifted in the middle, where you are now.
A pattern you didn’t have to spot
Threads are observations, not projects. Nothing here needs closing.
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It has to recur on its own
A thread only appears once something has genuinely come back across weeks. You never create one, name one, or file an entry under one.
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Built from dated moments
Open any thread and you can see the entries underneath it, with dates. It shows its working rather than asking you to trust a label.
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How your thinking changed
A thread can show its own arc — as dated turns rather than one fixed verdict, so the view you held in March survives alongside the one you hold now.
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Your companion knows them
You don’t re-explain the same situation every session. And it raises a thread rarely — once or twice in a whole session, when it actually helps.
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Not a problem list
Threads aren’t tasks and can’t be completed. Some run for years without resolving, and nothing in the app treats that as failure.
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Yours to hide
Hide any thread you’d rather not see. Mark one sensitive and your companion will never raise it unless you do first.
The pattern is invisible from inside a single day
This is the part a paper journal genuinely cannot do for you.
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A single entry can’t show it
You can read one entry and see a bad Tuesday. It takes eleven of them across four months to see the actual pattern.
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The work happens between sessions
Connections get drawn quietly in the background, so the app can notice something across weeks that you’d never catch in one sitting.
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Nothing to maintain
No tagging, no linking, no weekly review. If you stop using the app for a month, the threads are simply there when you come back.
What you circle says a lot about you
A list of your recurring preoccupations is unusually revealing — so it stays on your device.
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Threads live on your iPhone
The threads themselves, and the entries behind them, are stored on your device — never as a copy on our servers.
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Names are swapped first
Before any text is sent for reflection, every name in it — including yours — is replaced by a stand-in. The real ones stay on your phone.
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One switch
Turn cloud features off and threads simply stop growing. Reflection carries on working on your iPhone.
Questions about Threads
What becomes a thread?
Something you keep returning to across weeks — a question you circle, a tension you haven’t resolved, a hope that keeps surfacing. It has to recur on its own; you never create one.
Will it tell me to fix them?
No. A thread is an observation, not a problem to close. Some threads run for years, and that’s allowed — nothing here is scored or marked overdue.
How does it show change over time?
Each thread can show how your thinking has shifted — as dated turns rather than one fixed label, so an older view stays intact beside the newer one.
Can I hide one?
Yes. Hide any thread you’d rather not see, and mark anything sensitive so your companion never raises it unless you do first.
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