About TST Tracker
TST Tracker is your personal activity history across TouchstoneTruth. When you are signed in, it keeps track of the material you have read and listened to, including how many times you have completed each item and when you first and most recently completed it. The goal is simple: help you remember where you have been, rediscover useful material, and make it easier to continue exploring TouchstoneTruth over time.
Tracking is intentionally straightforward and largely based on your own actions. On a reading page, finish the material and use the Mark Read button near the bottom of the page. On a Read-Aloud page, completing the audio records the listen automatically. When you return to material you have completed before, TST Tracker shows whether you have read or listened to it and how many times. These records are associated with your signed-in account, creating a growing history of your activity across the site.
Your My Next Read page turns that history into something useful. Available from your My TST page, it suggests material you have not yet explored while also showing your recent reading activity. The home page is the common starting point for your wider TST experience, whether you primarily use the TST Website or TST Practice. Over time it brings together modules such as the Wisdom Builder, TST Tracker, My Next Read, and other tools as they are developed.
Future Vision: TST Progress and TST Certs Modules
TST Tracker is also intended to become the foundation for a broader learning and progress system. Future TST Progress features will allow you to choose structured learning paths built around selected TouchstoneTruth material. A Critical Thinking path, for example, will identify a set of articles, tidbits, or lessons to read or listen to. Because TST Tracker already knows what you have completed and when, progress will be calculated without creating a separate duplicate record of your activity.
And all your activity until then counts!
These learning paths will eventually become more formal. Your progress page for a particular path will show what is complete, what remains, and offer direct links to the next material. The same underlying system will include paths in Critical Thinking, Natural Philosophy, AI, Evolution, and other subjects developed deeply enough on TouchstoneTruth. More advanced paths might include certificaiton. Recertification paths will require completion of a defined set of material within a particular period—for example, 15 required readings or listens during the previous year.
A future TST Certs module will add assessment to that preparation. After completing the required material, a user might take an online exam and, after meeting the requirements, earn a TST certificate with an issue date, verification link, and shareable badge or logo. Early certificates could be intentionally straightforward—evidence that someone has made a serious effort to study a subject and demonstrate basic understanding—while more advanced levels could require larger bodies of material and more demanding assessments.
The long-term model can expand without changing the foundation. More advanced programs could include paid training, instructor-led sessions, seminars, proctored examinations, or in-person assessment if there is demand for them. But the online system remains valuable even without that expansion: TST Tracker records the learning activity, TST Progress organizes that activity into meaningful paths, and TST Certs can recognize demonstrated achievement. Together, those modules could turn TouchstoneTruth from a collection of ideas into a platform where people can explore, practice, document their progress, and eventually demonstrate what they have learned.