patience

Cairn

One Word. One Sentence. Daily.

Cairn is the smallest possible journal. Each morning you choose one word for the day. Each evening you write one sentence about it. Over a year, 365 words become the story of your year.

It lives on your iPhone and Apple Watch, with widgets to keep today's word in view. Everything stays private — stored on your device and in your own iCloud. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking.

Cairn is finished and still on the App Store, but it isn't in active development. I wrote up what I learned building it, including why I stopped using it myself.