Cairn
Search your notes with citations
Index the notes, ask a question you could also answer by opening a file, and open the citation.
Cairn indexes your files and answers with a citation on every sentence. That is the whole habit: the answer is not done until you can see where the sentence came from.
Citation grounding is the glossary name for that habit. The guide is How to search your files with citations.
Steps
Index the notes you actually mean
A knowledge index of everything on the disk will cite everything on the disk, including drafts you would not hand to someone. Start with the folder you consider current.
Ask a question you know how to check
The first questions are tests. Pick something a single note answers. See whether the citation opens that note.
Read age and confidence with the citation
Source age tells you the document may be old. Confidence tells you the support may be thin. Neither one replaces opening the file.
If two notes disagree, expect a flag
Cairn flags conflicting sources. The flag is a reason to edit the corpus, which is what the knowledge health report is for later.
Before you start
- A citation of a wrong note is still a citation. Open it. Do not promote the answer to something you will repeat until you have.
- We do not publish an accuracy percentage for Cairn.
Questions
Does every sentence have a citation?
Yes. That is the product behavior. If you cannot see one, you are not looking at a finished Cairn answer.
Is this the same as searching filenames?
No. You ask in language, and the answer is written from what was indexed, with a source on each sentence. You can still open the file yourself.