The method
None of this is our invention. Every moment of the loop has a documented practice behind it, and we say which — because being able to check it is part of what we offer.
In the morning
· 2 min
The hexagram of the day with its self-cultivation maxim — the 64 of the Daxiang, the native equivalent of the daily quote, written three thousand years ago. A mandala that breathes, or still if you prefer. No task list and no planning: contemplating is not managing.
Xici I.2 — guan/wan: "contemplate the images and savour the words"
When you need it
· 5 min
One question, three coins, six times. Before you cast, Tinta suggests turning "what is going to happen?" into "how do I act on this?" — it suggests, it never blocks. And a question gets cast once only.
Zhu Xi (filter and ritual); hexagram 4 (one cast per question)
At night
· 3 min
Three questions: two drawn from the day’s hexagram and one fixed, always the same — what small fault of today could you repair tomorrow? It is saved as a journal entry. If you miss a day, you can write that review later and the day counts as repaired.
Analects 1.4 — Zengzi: "daily I examine myself on three points"; wujiu (Xici)
At 7, 30 and 90 days
· 2 min
You write down what you decide and Tinta tells you right then when it will ask again. When it comes back, it does not ask for a one-to-five rating: it gives you the book’s five outcomes for naming what happened.
Shang oracle bones already recorded the consultation AND its outcome (yanci)
The classical texts come from James Legge’s edition (1882), which is in the public domain — quoted directly in English, and translated by us into Spanish. We do not use Wilhelm-Baynes or Vogelmann’s Spanish version: both are in copyright, and an app that quotes without the right to is not an honest app.
Inside the app every piece carries its card: canonical (the text of the book), tradition (historical commentary) or modern synthesis (ours). And anything an AI writes is marked as generated, with the model in plain sight.