What did you believe a year ago?
Write down what you think is true. Come back in a month, a year, a decade — and write it again. Things I Believe keeps every version, so you can see exactly how your thinking moved and why.
Free. Private by default. Export everything whenever you want.
Beta Early days — things may change and rough edges are likely. Your data is yours and exportable at any time.
How it works
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Write a belief
One sentence about something you think is true — “democracy needs boring institutions”, “I work best in the morning”, whatever is on your mind. Broad or specific, both work.
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Rate your conviction
Put a number on it, 0 to 100. It feels arbitrary the first time. It stops feeling arbitrary the third time you write down the same belief.
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Revisit on your schedule
Monthly, yearly, or never — you choose per belief. When one comes due it appears in your Revisit list. Nothing is overwritten; every version is kept.
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Compare with anyone
Publish the beliefs you're willing to discuss. Mark where you land on someone else's. The disagreement gets specific instead of vague.
Private unless you say otherwise
Every belief starts private. Publishing is per-belief and reversible — you can keep a private journal of things you're not ready to argue about and a public list of things you are.
Better arguments, faster
Most political and philosophical arguments waste an hour finding the actual disagreement. Compare two profiles and it's already sorted: common ground, partial agreement, real differences, and the questions neither of you has answered.
An honest record
Memory rewrites itself — you'll swear you always thought this. The history says otherwise, in your own words, with the date attached.
Every version, kept
Revisiting a belief never overwrites the last one. Each belief has a full history: what you wrote each time, how convinced you were, and the note explaining what moved. You can watch a position shift from 80 to 62 to 71 and read your own reasoning at each step.
Hand it to an LLM
Any comparison can be copied as plain text in one click — both people's beliefs, conviction scores, reasoning and responses. Paste it into whichever chat assistant you use and ask it to lay out where you agree, where you don't, and which disagreements actually matter.
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