tangent

rivers shape cities — cities shape the rivers backfragment · 14 mar

the word for this exists in German, probablyfragment · on a train

call with Mira — her unfinished point about attentioncall note · 2 jan

déjà vu is a retrieval error?fragment · 3 a.m.

A NOTE-TAKING APP SHAPED LIKE A MEMORY

Half a thought is enough.

Tangent catches the fragments you’d otherwise lose and quietly wires them to everything they touch. Months later, when you need the whole idea, it’s there — assembled.

Start remembering watch a recall · 45s

RECALL, DEMONSTRATED

Search the way you actually remember.

Rivers shape cities — and cities shape the rivers backfragment · wired to “infrastructure as memory”
Venice: a city as a negotiation with waterreading note · linked 3 ways
Mira: attention is a watershed, not a spotlightcall note · resurfaced last night

You don’t need the right words. You need the wrong ones you actually remember.

HOW IT WIRES

Capture at the speed of forgetting

A global hotkey opens a blank line over anything. Two seconds, no app-switch, no title. The thought lands before it fades.

Links that fire together

Connect any two notes and the link runs both ways. What you wire together gets recalled together — that’s the whole neuroscience, borrowed.

Sleep on it

Overnight, Tangent resurfaces a few old notes beside your new ones. Ideas come back like dreams: at the right moment, slightly rearranged.

Your first brain is busy.
Give it a colleague.

Start remembering — free