Find the note you wrote three months ago.
Cairn searches across everything you write and clip, so ideas return even when the words have changed.
4 notes
Maps copied from maps
Surveyors repeated the same coastline errors for decades. The mistake lasted because every copy looked authoritative.
Interview notes, onboarding
Three people stopped at the same step: naming the workspace. Defaults mattered more than the setup guide.
Lecture 6, memory and retrieval
Spaced returns feel harder than cramming, and that difficulty is what makes them stick.
Draft, essay on attention
A notification costs more than the seconds it takes to read. The real cost is the trip back to the task.
Everything runs from the keyboard.
- Search everything
- Opens search from any screen, with the cursor already in the field.
- New note
- Starts a blank note with the cursor ready for the first line.
- Link to a note
- Type two brackets to find an existing note and connect to it.
- Resurface today
- Shows the notes most related to what you opened today.
Old notes come back on a schedule.
Cairn tracks when you last opened each note and brings it back when it is likely to be useful again. Nothing is deleted, and nothing needs tagging.
Captured from a paper
The highlight, the page number, and a link back to the source land in one note.
Linked to a draft
The note appears beside the draft, because the draft mentions the same idea.
Resurfaced
Cairn shows it again when you open a document about the same subject.