Your Cabinet now does more of the work of getting to know you. As you talk, your counselors learn what matters to you and can fill in your Know Thyself profile for you, which you can review or change at any time. They can also offer to save something you said you'd do as a goal or a check-in task, or to write you a scroll on what you've been discussing. When a practice would help, a counselor can suggest adding it to a new "Your practices" section on Home: a focus timer, an evening review, a habit tracker, or Premeditatio, a short morning rehearsal of what the day might bring. Nothing changes unless you say yes, and Undo puts everything back. If you wish Arete did something it doesn't yet, your counselor can pass the idea along, and you'll hear back when it ships. We've also added conversation starters to an empty Cabinet, a pronoun setting, and an age question with extra care for younger members. The "Yesterday you wrote" card now clears once you've answered it.

The Agora is open. Read essays from the editor and from other readers, submit your own, and argue with them in the comments. Every essay is read by an editor before it appears, and a counselor can be invited to answer one in their own voice, grounded in the Library. Every counselor in your Cabinet now speaks as themselves in one to one conversation, not only the founding seven. The Meditations can be read section by section in the Library, with an outline that opens each book at the exact entry, so a passage can be cited as Marcus wrote it. Tapping a notification now takes you to the thing it was about, rather than the morning or evening routine.

A word from Marcus Aurelius, Chair of your Cabinet: You carry a small glass rectangle, and it carries you. No longer. In this release, your counselors can see what you have chosen to show us: the hours you promised yourself, the moment you crossed them, the names you gave your distractions. Set a daily limit in Progress. When you pass it, one of us will come find you. Speak to us about it; we have been watching, and we do not flatter. When the work matters, we hold the door. Begin a focus session and the apps you have chosen to resist will wait behind us until the work is done. A line from the tradition now stands on your home screen each day, if you place the widget there. The Library has opened inside the app: every text in full, with search, an outline to move by, and the Symposium, where you may sit with one of us and put your question to the whole tradition. The Academy now opens within these walls as well. When a counselor speaks worth keeping, share the words: any reply becomes a card you can send to a friend. And when we send for you, tapping the message brings you to the chamber, where the conversation continues. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. Begin.

Introducing Shared Cabinet Sessions Invite someone to think alongside you. In a shared session, you and a partner each bring your own philosophical profile, and your Cabinet counselors respond to both of you together. • Invite by email or text, right from the Cabinet • A dedicated Shared tab with live conversation, the members of your group, and notices when someone joins or leaves • Join from your phone or on the web at app.pursuearete.com • Invitations appear in the app too, so you never miss one Also in this update: • Daily reminders now come from the counselors you actually chose for your cabinet • New members can start with a 7-day free trial • Clearer plan comparison and pricing details • Bug fixes and polish

Corrected counselor names in the Cabinet.

The Cabinet is alive. Your counselors now speak independently — Marcus, Epictetus, Seneca, Goggins, Roosevelt, Montaigne, and your Future Self each respond in their own voice, in parallel, without blending into each other. Also fixed: a crash affecting some iOS 26 devices on launch.

Bug fixes and improvements. Message limits now enforced for free tier. Default morning routine added for new users. Cabinet starter configuration updated.

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