Ciao, Italian enjoyers!

Small update from my previous post.

About a month ago I shared Congiugno here — a little web app I made because my wife was learning Italian and kept getting stuck on conjugations.

The basic complaint was: every app gives you a giant list of verbs, you pick one, drill a table, and after a few days you just stop opening it. At least that was my experience too.
I did the same thing with Anki, full of confidence, then abandoned it after several weeks.

A few people said the idea would make more sense as a mobile app, so I made one.
Now you have push reminders.

The idea is still the same. You don’t just pick random verbs from a list. You go through a roadmap: Presente first, then Imperfetto, Passato Prossimo, etc. The app keeps bringing old stuff back too, because we all like spaced repetition, right?

The exercises are also inside sentences. So instead of only drilling “parlare / io / presente”, you get a sentence with the verb missing and have to understand what form fits there.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/congiugno-italian-verb-drill/id6778548600

If you’re learning Italian and try the mobile version, I’d really appreciate honest feedback.
There’s free content in the app, including the main tenses. Pro unlocks extended content / extra practice.

Mostly I’m curious whether the roadmap feels useful, whether the sentences make the tense clear enough, and if I need to add ALL the tenses.

Ciao r/macapps! I'm Anton and I have a problem.

PROBLEM

I have this problem where I remember the thing, but not where I saw it. I remember what it was:

A pricing chart. An error message. A useful thread. Some design reference. A weird message. A hotel I wanted to book. A task for the next day.

I just have no idea where. Too many apps these days.
After a few searches I either find it or it joins the graveyard of useful things I was absolutely sure I’d remember.

At first I wanted to solve it with a “proper” version: a kind of memory layer for my Mac, so when I get distracted or switch context, I can pick work back up again.
For about an hour this sounded elegant. Full speed. Then I realized it'd be basically a full-time screen recorder. Years ago I already had one at work, never again.
So I decided to leave that kind of thing to Palantir.

What I built instead is much more boring: visual bookmarks with voice tags.

When something is worth coming back to, I hit a shortcut, capture what’s on screen, and add a quick voice or text note like:

• “pricing page to compare later”
• “auth error from Sunday”
• “nice onboarding UI”
• “that thing Ivan sent about analytics”

Then later I can search by what I remember (I use "that thing" in search a lot).
I could put all of this in Obsidian, but keeping Obsidian tidy is already a part-time job.

It doesn’t watch everything in the background. It only saves the moments I choose to save. I’ve been using it for basically everything: paused projects, research, UI/product references, error messages, tickets, links that I know I’ll lose if they just sit in browser bookmarks.
Could I use something else?

COMPARISON

The closest things are probably Raindrop, mymind, Obsidian (ofc), and plain screenshots.
Cairn is narrower: hit a shortcut, capture the visual context, add the words, then search by meaning. You don't have to do a post-processing, hit and forget, later search by natural language.
That's the key difference.

PRICING

It’s a paid, buy-once Mac app: 14.99$ + tax. English only for now.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6772269434

Learn more: https://cairn.software
Privacy Policy: https://cairn.software/privacy

I have this problem where I remember the thing, but not where I saw it. I remember what it was:

A pricing chart. An error message. A useful thread. Some design reference. A weird message. A hotel I wanted to book. A task for the next day.

I just have no idea where. Too many apps these days.
After a few searches I either find it or it joins the graveyard of useful things I was absolutely sure I’d remember.

At first I wanted to solve it with a “proper” version: a kind of memory layer for my Mac, so when I get distracted or switch context, I can pick work back up again.
For about an hour this sounded elegant. Full speed. Then I realized it'd be basically a full-time screen recorder. Years ago I already had one at work, never again.
So I decided to leave that kind of thing to Palantir.

What I built instead is much more boring: visual bookmarks with voice tags.

When something is worth coming back to, I hit a shortcut, capture what’s on screen, and add a quick voice or text note like:

• “pricing page to compare later”
• “auth error from Sunday”
• “nice onboarding UI”
• “that thing Ivan sent about analytics”

Then later I can search by what I remember (I use "that thing" in search a lot).
I could put all of this in Obsidian, but keeping Obsidian tidy is already a part-time job.

It doesn’t watch everything in the background. It only saves the moments I choose to save. I’ve been using it for basically everything: paused projects, research, UI/product references, error messages, tickets, links that I know I’ll lose if they just sit in browser bookmarks.

It’s a paid Mac app, so fair warning and a self-promo flair.
And it's english only for now.

I’m still early, so I’m mostly curious: does this feel like something YOU'd actually keep using, or a two-day toy?
More pictures / link to the app: https://cairn.software/

Ciao, Italian enjoyers! My wife's been learning Italian for a few months and keeps complaining about conjugations. There's nothing to understand, you just have to memorize them, and you need them every time you speak. Until they stick you can't really say anything.
When I was learning I loaded Anki with conjugation tables and drilled them. Quit after couple of weeks. È una palla.
Every app she's tried is the same. A list of 500 verbs, pick one, drill it. No structure and no sense of where you are. She'd quit after a few days for the same reason I did :D.

So I made this. Free, no signup, in the browser:
congiugno.com

Two things are different. You conjugate inside a sentence instead of from a table — there's a phrase with the verb missing and you have to figure out which tense fits, then write the form. Closer to how you actually speak. And there's a path: Presente, then Imperfetto, then Passato Prossimo, and so on. You always know what you're working on. Old tenses keep coming back so you don't lose them.

If you're learning Italian, would love feedback. Mainly whether the sentences make the right tense obvious or feel ambiguous, and whether the path feels motivating or annoying. Tell me what sucks, per favore. Grazie!