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.
There's a number most people can't tell you: how much money they're holding in gift cards right now. A card from a birthday, a partial balance from a return, store credit from a refund you took instead of cash. It adds up — and a surprising amount of it gets thrown away unspent every year, either forgotten in a drawer or expired before anyone got to it.
Finances now has a fifth tab built to fix exactly that: Cards.
Every maker knows the feeling. You sit down to start something, reach for the one color you need, and the tube is empty. Or you're at the craft store wondering whether you already have enough of that filament, and you guess wrong — again.
CairnHolm's Creations section has always been about cataloging what you make. Now it tracks what you make it with. The new Materials tab is an inventory for your supplies.
If you train with a watch, your workouts already live somewhere. The run gets recorded, Strava gets the GPS trace, and your CairnHolm movement archive — the one feeding your Trophy Room, your heatmap, your best efforts — gets nothing unless you type it in by hand.
That gap is now closed. CairnHolm connects directly to Strava, so any activity in your Strava history can become a fully detailed CairnHolm workout in three taps: pick it, review it, save it.
Most tracking apps handle the first-time experience the same way: empty state, generic "Add your first entry" button, blinking cursor.
That's a reasonable response to an empty database, but a flat experience for someone just starting to track their workouts, relationships, or finances. CairnHolm's empty states were rebuilt to do more.
Most AI tools are purely reactive: you open the app, ask a question, get an answer, close the app.
That's useful, but it puts the burden entirely on you — to remember to check in, to know what to ask, to notice when something in your own life deserves attention.
Guide is built around a different premise: sometimes the most useful thing an AI can do is show up in your day without being asked.
Most workout apps answer one question: what did you do today?
CairnHolm's exercise section was redesigned to answer a different set of questions. What's the most you've ever lifted on a bench press? What's your best pace over a 10K distance? How consistent has your training been over the last year? How do your running weeks compare to your strength weeks?
These are the questions that tell you whether you're progressing. And until recently, you'd need a spreadsheet to answer them.
Most people have, at some point, meant to keep a weekly journal — a brief record of what happened, where they went, what was worth remembering. Something to look back on a year later that's more specific than a vague sense of "that was a good summer."
The problem is that sitting down to write a coherent summary of a week, after living that week, requires time and energy that usually belongs to something else.
CairnHolm's Weekly Chronicle removes the friction entirely.
Think about last month. A meal that surprised you. A film that stuck with you. A hike worth remembering.
How much of that do you still have? The restaurant's name. The movie's title. The trail you walked.
Most of it's gone — not because it didn't matter, but because nothing was there to record it.
Every AI assistant you've ever used had one thing in common: it knew nothing about you.
It didn't know you've been training for a half-marathon since January. It didn't know your mood tanks every time you skip more than two workouts in a row. It didn't know you loved the last thriller you rated 5 stars, or that you've visited 12 national parks and always head back to the mountains.
The advice it gave was generic, the suggestions were guesses, and after the conversation ended it forgot everything. Guide works differently.