Metacognition, in plain words

Metacognition is thinking about how you think. The psychologist John Flavell gave it that name in the 1970s: knowing what you know, noticing how a thought turns into a decision, catching what you reach for when you are unsure.

Most of us do it all the time, briefly. The hard part is holding on to it. A thought that felt clear on Tuesday is gone by Friday, and memory smooths over what is left. We remember a week as fine or awful, not as the seven evenings it was.

Something to think with

Innuro is built to keep hold of it. It keeps what you share in your own words, with the date you shared it. Across weeks, it shows how moments relate: what came before what, what turned up together, where a change came up.

Each connection shows the words it came from, so you are thinking about what you actually said, not what you remember saying.

Questions that start from you

A follow-up starts from your wording, and deeper questions wait until there is enough context. What Innuro says draws on a library of 50 methods from psychology and related research, with 66 source references recorded in that library. These are library counts; a public bibliography is not yet available.

Not a verdict

Metacognition is something you do. Innuro gives you the material to do it with, and the conclusions stay yours.