Cairn: Place Notes

A note attached to a place, which surfaces itself when you arrive. Not a task manager. No projects, no deadlines, no priorities, no calendar. A note, left at a place, waiting. Write the shopping list once. It reaches you at the shop door — not at nine in the morning, when you can do nothing about it. WHAT A CAIRN IS A stack of stones raised to mark a place, left on a path by one traveller for whoever passes next. Yours are left for you. Every line of a note is a stone you can tick off. A note with four things to do is a cairn of four stones. Tick one and its stone goes hollow. Tick them all and the cairn is spent — and a spent cairn stays quiet, because there is nothing left to say. You can read that from across the room. The rule is not buried in a settings screen; it is the picture. THE FIELD The home screen is not a list. You are at the centre, and your cairns sit at their true…