Rewind
For your hardest days. A letter Beacon writes that reminds you of wins, of when you coped, of who your kid is on the good days.
When to Use This
Use Rewind in the middle of a bad day, not at the end of a good month. Playback is the monthly retrospective; Rewind is the short read for the moment you forgot why you started. Beacon reads your wins, your steady journal days and your kid's small breakthroughs, and writes you a letter. Read it once. Keep it for the next bad day. Generate a new one when this one stops landing.
How It Works
Generate When You Need It
Tap Generate from the Rewind page. Beacon reads the last 60-90 days of your wins, journal entries and behavior logs. Picks the steady days and the breakthroughs. Writes the letter. ~15-30 seconds.
Keep the Last 20
The list shows the 20 most recent Rewinds, sorted newest first. Tap any to re-read. Old Rewinds drop off as you generate new ones, so the list stays short.
Different From Playback
Playback is monthly, structured, share-able: a retrospective letter. Rewind is on-demand, single-prose, private: for you in the moment. Different shape, different job. Both read the same things you logged.
Rewind Stays Private
Rewinds stay private. There is no share button. They are written for your reading, not for forwarding. If you want to share what you logged, use Playback instead.
A Real Example
Maya generates a Rewind during a hard Wednesday afternoon. Here's what Beacon read and what came back.
| Source | Pulled | Beacon Used |
|---|---|---|
| Wins (Last 60 Days) | 8 wins | 3 most representative |
| Journal (Last 30 Days) | 5 entries (3 Steady, 2 Heavy) | Steady days as evidence of coping |
| Behaviors (Last 60 Days) | Meltdown 32, Stimming 47, Elopement 4 | Stim shift from 60 -> 47 (down) as a signal |
| Profile | Age 4, dx 18mo ago | Frames letter to a 2.5-year arc |
| Output | 1 prose letter ~600 words | (this is what you read) |
What Beacon Auto-Knows
- Your last 60-90 days of wins, journal entries, behavior logs.
- Patterns: which days you coped, which behaviors trended down, which wins clustered.
- The arc since onboarding: how long your child has been in Beacon, what the early days looked like vs now.
How It Fits With Chat
- Rewinds do not have a Discuss button on the rewind itself; the letter is for reading.
- But Discuss from any OTHER feature with a Rewind open in another tab is fine; the chat does not auto-attach the Rewind content (unlike Playback, which attaches its cards).
- If you want Beacon to talk through what's in a Rewind, paste the relevant lines into a new chat manually.
Try These With Beacon
“Write me a rewind I can read tonight, today was hard.”
Points you to 'Generate a Rewind'. Beacon writes one letter that starts from your wins of the last 60 days, names 2-3 specific moments and ends with what is true about you and your kid even on hard days. It is saved under 'Your Rewinds' so you can read it again.
“I read the last Rewind 3 times this week. It stopped landing.”
Suggests generating a new one with different source emphasis. 'Try generating a new Rewind. The last one leaned on the brushing-teeth wins. A new one will read this week's logs, so it will speak to right now, not last month.'
“Why are old Rewinds gone? I had one from March I liked.”
Explains that Beacon keeps your 20 most recent Rewinds. 'Rewinds keep the 20 most recent. March's was probably bumped. If a Rewind is one you want to keep forever, copy the text into Journal or a notes app the day you read it.'
“Should I generate a Rewind or a Playback right now?”
Routes by mood. 'Hard day, need a hug: Rewind. End of a month, need to make sense of it or share it: Playback. Both read the same logs and write something different for each job.'