Keep useful work within reach.
Cairn gives your saved decisions, notes and conversations a place beyond one chat. Use it yourself, with one compatible assistant, or with several connected to the same local vault. Each AI keeps its own memory and context.
Save notes and decisions on your computer. Read the originals when details matter. Add corrections while keeping the earlier record.
Connect a compatible app so its assistant can save and retrieve notes. You can also use Cairn directly from a terminal.
Browse projects, topics and notes in your browser. The dashboard and search by meaning are separate, optional extras.
Bring supported ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini exports into Cairn so earlier conversations are available in your local vault.
Imports preserve available conversation text. A separate backfill workflow can extract facts and decisions. The detail available depends on the export.
Save notes as you go, or enable a supported capture integration. What gets recorded depends on the client and settings. Connecting an app alone does not record every conversation.
Cairn is source-available under BUSL-1.1. Free for personal/non-commercial use; commercial/business use requires a license. See the license. AI provider charges still apply.
Recorded in a local Cairn installation. Private text has been replaced with examples. Exact feature parity with release 0.3.3 has not been verified. About the recordings ↓
Check due items, return to recent notes and see activity across your projects.
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Open video ↗The view moves from the welcome and Desk / Today / Projects / Library cards through due items, recent notes, and project activity. Memory kinds, counts, timestamps, and the more-projects control stay visible.
Private note text, project names, and personal due dates use examples.
Browse established projects and review suggested groupings. The clip shows the available choices; it does not apply a project change.
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Open video ↗Approved projects open the clip. Proposed candidates follow, with “make it a project”, “not a project”, and “file under” controls. Emerging candidates finish the tour, holding on “promote to project” and “not a project”. No project action is pressed in this recording.
Private project names and descriptions use examples.
Browse saved notes by topic. This clip scrolls through example AI and memory topics, with the recorded counts beside them.
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Open video ↗The Index shows a populated A section with example AI and memory topics. The view scrolls down through the two-column list, then holds on the final rows. Counts and controls are retained from the recording; clip timing is edited.
Private topic names use examples.
Inspect recorded activity and its source labels. This clip combines two recordings; it does not show a new handoff between assistants.
See whether a recorded entry came from a person, model or tool.
The feed shows what your integration records. Automatic capture is enabled separately from the connection to your app.
Open the video for a closer look. Its narrow source recording limits text size.
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Open video ↗The first four seconds show an earlier genuine READ event, labeled “live”, “31ms”, and “1 results”. The video then cuts to a separate recording containing gpt-6-astra, human, and claude-opus-4-8 entries, including the original 48.8k tok field. This is a tour of recorded activity; it does not demonstrate a new cross-assistant handoff.
Private query text uses examples. Tool, model, human, and client labels are original.
Hover over points in the memory map to preview their notes, kinds and dates. The clip shows five recorded positions.
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Open video ↗Five recorded hover positions reveal connected memories. Each tooltip retains its actual kind and date; only its private excerpt is replaced. The graph and links are original, with no Recent-ring toggles or invented interactions.
Private tooltip excerpts use examples.
Yes. They use recorded interface frames. Private names, queries and excerpts have been replaced with illustrative text. Memory counts, tool metadata, model and human attribution, and the project action controls are retained. No project action is performed in the Projects clip.
These videos were made in a local installation. We have not verified that every filmed control is available in release 0.3.3, which the homepage setup links use. Check the guide for your installed version.
Yes. Start with one compatible assistant, or save notes yourself from the command line or Garden. Connect more AI tools to the same vault when you want them to share saved context. Each AI keeps its own memory.
No. Memory tools let a connected client read and write the vault. Capture is configured separately and varies by integration. Check what your setup actually records.
The vault is local. When you retrieve selected memories into a cloud AI conversation, that provider receives the selected context. You choose which clients connect and what capture to enable.
Yes. Cairn has import paths for supported ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini exports. They bring conversation text into the vault; a separate backfill workflow can distill useful facts and decisions. Available detail depends on the source format.