Put Your Life on the Map: Introducing Cities
You can name the cities that shaped you. The one you grew up in, the one where you met someone, the one you keep meaning to go back to. What you probably can't do is see them all at once — laid out on a map, each one holding the trips you took and the people you took them with.
That's what Cities is. A new section of CairnHolm for the places you've been, the times you were there, and everything that happened while you were.
Pin a city in seconds
Adding a city should not require you to look up a latitude. So it doesn't. Start typing a city's name and CairnHolm searches a global place database as you type. Pick the right match and it fills in the region, country, coordinates, and continent for you. All of it stays editable if you want to adjust something — but most of the time you'll type three letters, tap a suggestion, and you're done.
The coordinates matter because they're what place the city on the map. Which brings us to the best part.
The Atlas
The Atlas tab is a zoomable, draggable map of the world with a pin on every city you've logged. Scroll or pinch to zoom — from the whole globe down to a single neighborhood — and drag to pan across continents. Quick-jump chips for World, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania snap you to a region instantly.
The pins counter-scale as you zoom, so they stay the same size on screen whether you're looking at the world or a single country. A dense cluster of European weekends stays readable instead of collapsing into one blob.
It's the view most travel logs never give you: not a list of places, but a map of your life, filling in over the years.
One city, many visits
A city isn't a single moment — it's every time you went. So in CairnHolm, each city holds multiple visits. A weekend in Lisbon in 2022 and a return in 2025 live under one Lisbon pin, as two separate visits, each with its own date and its own story.
For every visit you can:
- Tag the people you were with, pulled from your People directory — and the visit shows up in their Shared History too.
- Link it to a vacation, tying the city into the larger trip it was part of.
- Connect the memories that happened there — the restaurant you loved, the concert you saw, the park you hiked. Pin the ones worth highlighting.
That last part is what turns a dot on a map into something worth keeping. A pin tells you that you were in Barcelona. The linked memories tell you what Barcelona was.
It connects to everything else
Cities doesn't sit off in its own corner. A city visit shows up in your Daily Collective Log on the day it happened, and on your Calendar alongside everything else from that day. Ask the Ranger about a trip and it can pull the city into the conversation. Your travels become part of the same connected archive as the rest of your life — not a separate app you have to remember to open.
Start your atlas
Pin the city you're in right now. Then add the last place you traveled. Then the one before that. In a few minutes you'll have the beginnings of a map that no other app has ever shown you — the geography of where you've actually been.