Your epigraph and vital notes

The epigraph and each vital's short note are set rather than computed live, written from your actual thoughts and dated at the foot, like a printed impression.

The impression is written from your entries by the AI service, so it needs the OK you give on the Ruxpin uses AI. screen. Until you've allowed that, the Reader tab says so and offers Review and allow instead of writing one.

The bookplate and its colophon

The epigraph sits on a bookplate with a colophon under it: Set from all 42 thoughts · Sun, Jul 20. That's when this one was written, and how many of your thoughts it was drawn from. The colophon only ever states facts your record can prove.

It reads your whole record, not your last few weeks

The epigraph used to be set from your sixty most recent thoughts, which meant a long-standing reader got a line about their last couple of months. It now reads everything you've captured.

It does that without re-reading every thought each time. Ruxpin keeps an index of the ideas you return to, drawn from your entries as you capture them, and the impression is set from the strongest of those, each with a few of your actual thoughts beneath it, plus your most recent thoughts so it still knows what you're reading now. So a thread you carried through a book last year can shape this week's line, and often does.

When a new one is set

A new impression is set on a fixed weekly rhythm, Sunday at midnight Pacific time, so it turns over at the same moment for everyone, and sooner whenever you've added another ten thoughts, so an active week never waits on the calendar. Picking your own day is something we may add later.

The note on each vital

Open a vital and, below its scale, a short note in the same bookplate says what your lean could mean, drawn from your own thoughts, the way the epigraph is. These notes are set with the epigraph, in the same weekly impression, and carry the same colophon.

The vitals' numbers are not on that clock: they're worked out from your record every time the tab opens. So the dot above the note can move during the week while the words hold until the next setting. The note describes your month as it stood when it was written, and the date at its foot says exactly when that was. A vital that's still forming has no note yet, and a freshly settled one gets its first note at the next weekly setting.

Putting your epigraph on a card

Your epigraph can go on a shareable card, but only when you pick it. Tapping Share your record on the Reader tab offers the counts on their own or the counts with your epigraph above them, and the choice is made each time you share. Sharing your record has the details.