Write by hand the way you would on paper, then find what you wrote months later. Tern keeps your
notebooks on every device you own — or on none of them, if you would rather nothing left this one.
Runs in your browser today. iPhone, iPad and Android next. You can start without an account.
Morning pagesField notes
Rainfall, week threeGauge reset Monday 07:40.Tuesday — 14mm, mostly overnight.Wednesday dry. Thursday 3mm,then the front came through andwe lost the north gutter again.Gutter fix — Saturday, if dry.Ask Ana about the second gauge.peak, 22:15North gutter: 2.4 m.
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What it is
A notebook that happens to be made of glass.
The writing should feel like paper. Everything after the writing — finding it, gathering it, carrying it around —
should feel like nothing paper can do.
i.
Ink that keeps up.
Pressure and tilt, a nib that thins as you speed up, and a line that lands under the stylus rather than behind it. Pen, pencil, marker and highlighter, each with their own way of laying down colour.
gutterat four times the size, the line still has an edge
ii.
Find it again.
Search reads typed text, sticky notes, page titles, notebook names and the text inside PDFs you have imported — and your handwriting, on devices that can read it. That much is free and needs no account.
gutter
Wednesday dry. Thursday 3mm,then the front came through andwe lost the north gutter again.Gutter fix — Saturday, if dry.Ask Ana about the second gauge.north gutter again
iii.
On whatever you pick up.
Every device does every job — the layout changes with the size of the window, not the badge on the back. Your other devices offer to hand a page over rather than waiting to be asked, and a tray carries what you are working on between them, Apple or Android.
Rainfall, week three
Gauge reset Monday
Tuesday — 14mm
Continue on this phone?Rainfall, week three · from your iPad
In the trayA region of a page, from your iPad
Tags across notebooks
Tag a page, or just part of one. A tag view gathers every note that carries it, from every notebook, and you can save the view and keep it.
Pages with no edges
A canvas keeps going in every direction — room for a mind map, a whiteboard, or a plan that outgrew its page.
Share a link, not an account
Send someone a page and they open it. No sign-up, no app. Put a passcode on it, give it an end date, and take it back whenever you want.
In and out
Import a PDF and write on it. Export a page, a notebook or the lot as PDF. Nothing you make here is trapped here.
Yours
It works with nothing online at all.
Tern writes to your device first and syncs afterwards. On a plane, in a basement, on a train through a
tunnel, it behaves exactly the same — because the copy on the device is the real one.
You can use it without ever making an account. Nothing leaves the device until you sign in.
Two people, or two of your own devices, can write on the same page at once without a conflict dialog ever appearing.
Deleting your account deletes it: every page, every file, every share link, for good, and you can do it yourself from inside the app.
Deleted notebooks and pages wait 30 days in Recently deleted before they are really gone.
Bookcloth covers with foil-stamped titles, as thick as the notebook is full. Ruled, dotted and squared paper. Six bottled inks, named like the real thing. And a desk under daylight, or under a lamp at night.