Triggers & goals

You say more useful things about yourself in passing than you'd think — "this always happens when my sister calls," "I really want to get back to running." Said once, those observations tend to evaporate. Said a few times across different sessions, they're worth having on hand. That's what this insight collects: the situations that reliably set something off for you, and the goals you've actually stated, in your own words.

What it actually is

Two lists, kept separate because they serve different purposes. Triggers are the situations, people, or moments you've described as setting off a difficult reaction — not a clinical inventory of "triggers" in the formal sense, just the specific things you've named as hard. Goals are whatever you've said you're working toward, whether that's concrete ("sleep before midnight three nights a week") or more open-ended ("feel less on edge around my family"). Both are drawn from what you've actually said, not inferred from a checklist.

How it's computed

Two sources feed this list. First, an AI model reads across your saved session summaries and pulls out statements that read as triggers or goals, then groups similar mentions together so "my sister calling" and "when my sister calls unannounced" show up as one recurring item instead of two unrelated ones — it's extraction, not judgment. Second, you can explicitly save goals during any conversation with a status (mentioned, progressing, or achieved), and those appear as a durable record on your /you/goals page, tracked over time independently from the inferred list but drawing from the same conversations that feed the extraction. Both rely on what you've actually said; the model isn't deciding which of your triggers are legitimate or which goals are realistic, just noticing what you've said and how often you've said it.

How to read it

Triggers are most useful as an early-warning list for yourself: knowing in advance that a specific situation tends to be hard gives you a beat to prepare, rather than being caught by it again. Goals work well as a running check-in — when a stated goal shows up repeatedly without much change alongside it, that's worth a direct look, either to recommit to it or to notice it might not be the right goal anymore.

Neither list is meant to be exhaustive or final. New triggers surface as you talk through new situations, and goals shift as your life does — the list reflects where you've been, updated as you keep showing up.

What it can't tell you

This can't tell you which triggers matter most, which goals are worth prioritizing, or how to actually get from a stated goal to a met one — that's the part that still takes real effort and, often, real support from other people. It's also entirely dependent on what you've put into words; a trigger you haven't named in a session won't appear here, even if it's the biggest thing going on for you. Read alongside technique effectiveness if you're trying to connect a specific goal to what's actually been helping.