+ {card.id}
+ TANGENT
+
+ {card.title}
+{card.body}
+
+
+
+ ACC. NO. 0001 · PERMANENT COLLECTION
++ A filing system for thoughts you intend to keep. +
++ Tangent is a note-taking app built like a card index: every + thought gets a card, every card gets an address, and any address + can point to another. Niklas Luhmann kept ninety thousand of + these and called the box his second memory. Yours types faster. +
+ +
+
+
+ {cards.map((card) => {
+ const pos = order.indexOf(card.id);
+ return (
+ pull(card.id)}
+ aria-hidden={pos !== 0}
+ >
+
+ );
+ })}
+
+ + ↑ a working sample — click an{" "} + address to pull its card +
+The filing rules
+
+
+ RULE I — CAPTURE
+
+
+ RULE II — CONNECT
+
+
+ RULE III — RETURN
+
+
+ One thought per card.
++ A global hotkey, a blank card, two seconds. No titles required, + no folder to choose, nothing to decide while the thought is + still warm. +
+Link by address, not by mood.
+
+ Type [[ and point a card at any other. Links run
+ both ways, so every card quietly lists everyone who has ever
+ cited it.
+
The box deals you old cards.
++ Each morning Tangent resurfaces a few cards beside whatever + you’re writing. Most you’ll dismiss. The third one is why you + keep a box. +
+FROM THE ARCHIVE
++ The sociologist Niklas Luhmann published seventy books and some + four hundred articles. Asked how, he answered — politely, and more + than once — that he didn’t do it alone: the card index did most of + the work. He wrote his slips, filed them by address, and let the + box surprise him. +
++ He called it his Zweitgedächtnis — second memory. He also + admitted it was a better conversation partner than most + colleagues. +
++ — filed 1981, retrieved whenever needed +
+ ++ Thoughts not filed are due to disappear. +
+ + Start your file — free + ++ Local-first. Plain text. The box lives on your machine. +
+
+ ))}
+