GC 380 .E88
Estuary sediment cores
Core 4 shows the 1953 surge. Gauge board moved, per [[Interview — R. Okonjo, 12 Mar]]
Cairn
a–z · 10,412 cards · your disk
The drawer, open
ten of 10,412 · filed 2014–2026
- TP 823 .K55acc. 002841
Kiln temperature curves
Cone 6 stalled at 1180°C. Held it twenty minutes and the colour came back.
Log the ramp, not the peak.
see also- Sourdough: hydration log
- Estuary sediment cores
- RA 650 .S66acc. 000317
Why the 1854 cholera map worked
Snow did not draw the deaths. He drew the pumps, then the deaths beside them.
The argument is in the adjacency.
see also- Reading — Seeing Like a State
- Estuary sediment cores
Resurfaced24 Jul 2026last opened 9 Nov 2014
- HD 9502 .O46acc. 004120
Interview — R. Okonjo, 12 Mar
Twenty-two years on the same stretch of river.
Says the gauge board was moved in '09 and nobody wrote it down.
see also- Estuary sediment cores
- Field recording — dawn chorus
- TX 769 .S68acc. 003966
Sourdough: hydration log
78% at 24°C went slack by the second fold. 72% held its shape.
Same flour, new sack — check the protein number.
see also- Kiln temperature curves
- JC 328 .S36acc. 001204
Reading — Seeing Like a State
Legibility costs something.
The forest that can be counted is the forest that dies.
see also- Why the 1854 cholera map worked
- Bridge deck expansion joints
- TG 325 .B75acc. 005017
Bridge deck expansion joints
Modular joints at 40mm a bay.
The noise complaint is a maintenance problem, not a design one.
see also- Estuary sediment cores
- PN 4009 .A34acc. 000842
Mnemonics from the Ad Herennium
Place the images in a house you have actually walked through.
Unfamiliar rooms hold nothing.
see also- Reading — Seeing Like a State
- GC 380 .E88acc. 002355
Estuary sediment cores
Core 4 shows the 1953 surge as a 6cm band of clean sand.
Everything above it is farm runoff.
see also- Interview — R. Okonjo, 12 Mar
- Why the 1854 cholera map worked
- QL 698 .F54acc. 004401
Field recording — dawn chorus
04:41, blackcap first. Traffic floor is up to 38dB by 05:20.
Record before the bypass wakes.
see also- Interview — R. Okonjo, 12 Mar
- Z 250 .L48acc. 003128
Letterpress lockup diagram
Furniture reads clockwise.
Quoins on the far side of the chase or the whole forme lifts crooked.
see also- Mnemonics from the Ad Herennium
Drag the cards along the rod, or press the left and right arrow keys to walk the drawer.
Notes you wrote in 2014, filed where you can still find them.
Cairn keeps everything you write as plain markdown in a folder you chose. It cross-references cards as you type, reads the text inside your scans, and hands back the note you forgot you had.
Free for one vault. Also on Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.
Z 695 .L56
See also
Type [[ and start naming a note. Cairn writes the cross-reference on both cards — the one under your hands and the one you pointed at — so you never go back to add the other half.
Rename a note and every reference to it follows. Delete the reference and both sides forget. The drawer never holds a card that points at nothing.
see also
HD 9502 .O46
Interview — R. Okonjo, 12 Mar
Twenty-two years on the river.
see also Estuary sediment cores
Z 711 .R47
Resurface
While you write, Cairn goes to the back of the drawer. Notes you have not opened in over a year, that share a name or a link or a turn of phrase with the page in front of you, come up in a small tray at the side.
You file the connection or you put the card back. Either way the thing you wrote in a different job, for a different reason, is in your hands again — which is the whole reason you kept it.
4,276 days in the drawerpulled this morning
RA 650 .S66acc. 000317
Why the 1854 cholera map worked
He drew the pumps, then the deaths beside them. The argument is in the adjacency.
Resurfaced24 Jul 2026
Z 693 .S54
Shelf list
What is in the drawer, and where it actually lives.
QA 76.76 .M35
Plain files, your disk
Every note is a .md file in a folder you picked. Open them in any editor, copy them to a drive, keep them all if you ever stop paying us. Cairn writes with the network off.
Z 699 .S43
Search reads the scans
One search box over the whole vault, including the words inside scanned PDFs and photographs of pages you never typed up.
CT 25 .D35
Today's card is waiting
Open Cairn and a note for today is already made and dated. Start typing. File it later, or leave it where it fell.
TK 5105 .S96
The same vault on the phone
Desktop and phone open the one folder, with the same cross-references and the same history behind every note.
Date due
- 14 Jan 2019
- 02 Sep 2020
- 23 Mar 2022
- 11 Jun 2024
- 07 Feb 2026
- 24 Jul 2026
Estuary sediment cores · 41 saves
Z 703 .V47
Every save is stamped
Each note keeps its own history. Open any date and read the note as it stood that morning, then take back the paragraph you cut and regretted.
The history sits beside the file on your own disk, so it survives a lost laptop the same way the notes do — by having been copied somewhere with everything else.
Z 713 .B67
Borrower’s card
One price, and it only buys you the sync. Everything that makes a note findable is in the free vault.
Issued — no charge
Free
One vault, one machine
- Unlimited notes, kept as markdown on your disk
- Cross-references, backlinks and Resurface
- Search across scanned PDFs and images
- Full version history on every note
Issued — monthly
$8/month
The same vault everywhere
- Desktop and phone kept in step
- As many machines as you actually use
- Sync stops, notes stay — they were always your files
- Cancel from inside the app, in one place