One Blue Thread only ever watches one thing directly: whether you opened your Bible and how far you got. Everything else about how the habit is going — whether it stuck, whether you remember what you read — it has to ask. Three prompts do that.
Every answer below is self‑graded and consequence‑free. Grading a passage “lost” cannot un‑seal a day, cannot shrink tomorrow's reading, and never touches the record of days you read. The one exception is quiet and aggregate: probe grades feed a running score of which daily dose size actually gets remembered — never anything about the day you graded.
src/lab/ladder.ts §13.6 · src/lab/analysis/dose.ts §14 E10The day after a sealed day, One Blue Thread sometimes — not always, and never predictably — asks about a few verses you read, before it shows them again. The span is a short run chosen by the trial seed, always inside the verses you actually read, and it never looks at the verses you marked: memory work and the probe run separately.
"What do you remember of verses 13–14?"
| Your grade | Score | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Held it | 1.0 | Recalled it, essentially whole. |
| Partly | 0.5 | Got some of it back, not all. |
| Lost it | 0.0 | Nothing came back before the reveal. |
| Skip | 0.5 | Declined to answer — scored neutral, not penalized. |
A passage you chose to learn — one you marked while reading and then picked with “Learn this”, or any passage you added in the memory library — follows a Leitner schedule: five boxes at growing intervals, back for recall exactly when it's due. Each time it comes back as a cloze card on the ladder: a few key words hidden first, then most of them, then the whole passage, each amount met first with letter stubs and then with plain gaps. The library can review ahead whenever you like.
PHILIPPIANS 4:6–7
In nothing be a––––––, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the p–––– of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
| Your grade | Box · ladder | Next due |
|---|---|---|
| Held it | +1 box (max 5) · up a rung | Further out — box intervals run 1 → 3 → 7 → 21 → 60 days. |
| Partly | stays · stays | Same interval, comes back at the same spacing. |
| Lost it | → box 1 · back one rung | Back to a 1‑day interval — deliberately not Anki's easier reset — and the card hides a little less next time. |
The Self‑Report Behavioural Automaticity Index, reworded to measure initiation rather than the reading itself — whether opening the app has become automatic, independent of whether that particular day got read. It's the one place One Blue Thread asks instead of infers, because this one thing genuinely can't be read off the log.
A plain list of every date One Blue Thread believes you read this month. Deliberately not a chart — a chart can be subtly wrong and still look plausible; a list of dates is checkable against your own memory in ten seconds.
After 4–7 days of silence, One Blue Thread has usually formed a guess about why — a changed cue, fatigue with the current book, a dose that's gotten too heavy, real life, or nothing sharp at all — and asks exactly one question matched to that guess. There's no score and no wrong answer; it's a nudge, not an instrument. It never fires inside the first 7 days of an unexplained total silence, and it never contacts your partner: “Talk to …” only opens your messages app, empty, when you tap it.