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37Your flow: the writing with no method in it

A free journal with no rules and no analysis — your day as it is, what you are facing, what is on your mind. It is also the one place the tool reads to learn which themes to offer you.

This is not a theme for a particular kind of writing. It is a feature of the writing you will find only in this app, one you have probably not seen anywhere else, in any other app. Your flow is a free path for your thoughts. Write your day as it is, or the last week, or the past; write what was good, what was bad and what was neither. Write everything that comes to mind about yourself, about other people, about anything at all. And beyond the possible benefit of writing of this kind, or perhaps you simply want to keep some facts and record some things, we use it differently, for those who want that.

In Weave we built a tool that matches your thoughts to other themes. We have dozens of themes, many of them drawn from psychotherapy, but choosing among them is hard: it is like shopping for the ideas you need in order to write your journal. We can help you with that task. Do not worry, we will not read what you wrote; the AI can do that without knowing where the text came from or whose it is. With your personal consent, given each time you write in your flow, we use AI to find the themes that suit you best, so that you can write toward them.

In expressive writing we help you dwell on your feelings about an event that affected you deeply and caused you a great deal of sadness; in optimistic writing we help you choose the positive events and put them into good language. In your flow, we help you choose the themes you need. What happens is a match like this:

Take an entry like the second example under this theme: three nights of bad sleep, money mostly, the rent going up in March and nobody told. The tool reads entries like it, with the names masked, against the list of themes and the situations each theme describes, and it may come back with «Walk the worst case all the way through», pointing at the line it matched in that theme's own description: "the same 'what if' circling for weeks without ever being answered", together with one or two sentences to you about what it noticed, without quoting your writing back at you. If the same worry had appeared in earlier entries and then passed, it might add «Keep a graveyard of worries». And the conversation with a sister that will not settle might meet «Not all yours to carry»: "replaying an event as if it were entirely their fault". Four themes at most, and none when the writing does not support any. The suggestion is not a verdict: you read it, take what serves you, and write toward it if you want to.

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Write your day as it is — no rules, no analysis. Just you and the page.

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