Colour 1 · medium blue
Why the 1854 cholera map worked
Snow did not argue from the water. He argued from where the dead were standing.
edited 12 Mar · 14 links
Job 00012 colours, 1 passstock: your own disk
Two notesoverprintinto a third
Registration
Cairn keeps your notes as plain markdown in a folder you choose. Type [[ to link one note to another and the link prints on both of them. Ten years later, both still open.
Two plates
Link two notes and both of them remember
Type [[ anywhere and pick a note. Cairn writes the link into your markdown and puts the backlink on the other note without being asked. No folders to keep tidy, no tags to invent at two in the morning.
prints on both sheets[[Estuary sediment cores]]
Colour 2 · fluorescent pink
Estuary sediment cores
Linked from — Why the 1854 cholera map worked
Every core is an argument about where a thing settled, not what anyone called it.
edited 4 Nov · 9 links
Load a second note onto the drum
Both notes reason from where something was found.
The rack
Resurface pulls back the note you stopped opening
While you write, Cairn reads what you are working on and looks through everything you have not opened in a year. When an old note shares links and language with today’s, it comes back up. This is the reason people keep a vault for a decade instead of starting a new one every job.
On the drum todayKiln temperature curves
Resurfaced
Sourdough: hydration log
Both logs are about a curve you are not allowed to rush.
not opened in 14 months3 links in common
1 of 3 in the rack
Press specification
The rest of the run sheet
Plain markdown, on your disk
Every note is a .md file in a folder you picked. Cairn runs with the network off. If you ever leave, the folder stays where it is and still opens in anything.
Search reads the scans too
Search covers every note, and the text inside scanned PDFs and photographed pages you dropped in years ago and forgot to name.
Today's note is already open
Cairn opens a dated note the moment it launches. Start typing. Decide where it belongs later, or never.
Every note keeps its own proofs
Cairn saves a version each time you stop typing. Open an earlier draft, read what changed, put it back.
One vault, desktop and phone
The phone app opens the same vault. Edit either one and you are editing the same file. Moving it between machines is the part you pay for.
Press run
Two ways to run it
One vault
Free — no account
- Unlimited notes in one vault on one machine
- Links, backlinks, Resurface, version history, search
- Your markdown files stay yours whatever happens next
Sync
$8 a month
- Everything in one vault
- The same vault on your phone and your other machines
- Stop paying and every note stays on your disk, unlocked