Quick Capture for Obsidian vs Cairn

Capture notes and tasks as plain Markdown in your Obsidian vault. Open. Type. Done. Shard opens to a focused capture field. Save a thought to your daily note or add a task to your task file without opening your full vault workspace. CAPTURE • Save posts to your daily note and tasks to your task file • Set a Project and due date while you write a task on Home • Use custom Post formats and destinations • Attach images • Use common Daily Notes and Periodic Notes folder and date settings • Write to your selected vault folder on your device or in iCloud Drive • Keep text captures queued on your device when the vault is temporarily unavailable • Capture text and webpage URLs through the Share Sheet • Run Post and Task actions from Shortcuts TASKS • Manage Markdown checkboxes, Projects, and subtasks • Add due dates and times • Browse All, Today, Upcoming, and No Date • Save edits to existing tasks automatically • Get local reminders for tasks with a due date and time • View due and overdue tasks in Home Screen widgets • View today's tasks on your Lock Screen with Live Activities and check them off there • Open capture from Lock Screen buttons for New Post and New Task FREE AND SHARD PLUS Capture, unlimited tasks, images, reminders, widgets, Live Activities, Shortcuts, and Share Sheet capture are free. Create up to 5 Projects and 3 custom note destinations for free. Shard Plus removes both limits and unlocks custom Post formats. Existing Projects, custom note destinations, and saved formats remain available when a subscription expires. Creating beyond the free limits or editing a custom Post format requires Plus. You can restore the standard Post format for free. MADE FOR YOUR CURRENT WINDOW Capture and task controls adapt to changes in the available display area, including iPhone Duo. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No Shard account. No analytics. No tracking. Your content is written to the vault folder you choose. If a text capture cannot be written immediately, it waits locally on your device. Your notes stay in plain Markdown with no proprietary file format. Obsidian is a trademark of Dynalist Inc. Shard is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dynalist Inc. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Cairn is a fast, native task and note companion that lives on top of the Markdown files you already own. Point it at your Obsidian vault — or any folder of Markdown notes — and your tasks and notes appear in clean, focused views. Everything you do in Cairn is written straight back to your files as plain text, in the Obsidian Tasks format. YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no Cairn cloud database — your tasks live in your own files • Cairn does not send your notes or tasks to the developer • Careful, patch-based edits change only the content you touched, preserving the rest of your note • Works alongside Obsidian, iCloud Drive, Git, or any sync you already use CAPTURE, BROWSE, AND PLAN • Browse and edit Markdown notes directly in your vault • Quick capture into your daily note, with date, tag, and priority tokens parsed as you type • Choose where longer captures are saved • Today, Upcoming, Inbox, and Pool views, plus a global filter for folders, tags, dates, priority, and status • Full support for sub-tasks and task hierarchies • Recurring tasks in Obsidian Tasks format, with safe completion handling • Convert upcoming calendar events into tasks, or mirror your dated tasks into a calendar you choose (optional) STAY ON TRACK • Local reminders for due tasks — including sunrise-relative reminders computed entirely on your device • A Live Activity keeps today's progress on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Home Screen widgets and a Control Center quick-capture control • Search across every task in your vault MADE FOR OBSIDIAN — NOT ONLY OBSIDIAN Cairn reads and writes the Obsidian Tasks plugin format (due, scheduled, start, and done dates, priorities, recurrence, tags), so your vault stays fully compatible with your desktop setup. Don't use Obsidian? Create a plain task folder in the Files app and Cairn works as a stand-alone Markdown to-do app. Cairn asks for access only to the folder you pick. Calendar access and location (used to compute local sunrise times) are optional and processed on your device. If you choose iCloud Drive or another Files or calendar provider, that provider's own sync and privacy terms apply.