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Themes

A Theme is a 4-week (28-day) growth focus grounded in your own highlights. You work on one Theme at a time, so your attention stays in one place instead of scattering.

It’s gentle by design. A Theme isn’t a course to finish or pass — it’s an invitation to sit with an idea that already matters to you and let it settle into daily life.

Where a Theme comes from

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Becoming reads across your highlights and looks for ideas that keep showing up in different sources, favoring what you’ve read recently. It’s about where your thinking is converging — not how many highlights any single book happens to have.

You need at least 25 highlights in your language before Becoming can generate your first Theme.

Starting a Theme

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You can begin a Theme in three ways:

  1. From your whole library — the New Theme screen scans everything you’ve saved and lets Becoming choose a focus.
  2. From a specific highlight — use Make Theme in Daily Review to grow a focus from one passage that’s on your mind.
  3. By describing your intent — the Tell us what you want to work on option lets you type what you want to work on, in your own words.

Generating a Theme uses AI credits — 66 from your whole library, 10 from a single highlight or a typed intent, and 6 to extend one for another four weeks.

The checkpoint

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At the start of the final week, a Theme reaches a checkpoint — a gentle digest of the four weeks and a choice:

  • Extend — keep going for another four weeks.
  • Finish — close this Theme, and optionally begin a new one.

There’s no wrong choice here, and nothing breaks if you step away for a while.

See also

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