Cairn is a planning system built on one idea: place your highest priorities first, and let everything smaller fit in around them. Get it on paper, coming soon as an app, or both.
Most planners give every task the same size box — which means the important stuff and the busywork end up fighting for the same five minutes. Cairn does the opposite. It makes you name your three big rocks before anything else gets a slot, so the day, week, or month actually moves the things that matter.
Every Cairn page follows the same simple stacking order — so you always know what to do first, and everything smaller still has a place.
Your must-do priorities. Place these first, before anything else claims your time.
Supporting tasks that matter — they fit in the space around your big rocks.
Everything else waits here, unscheduled, until it's ready to become a rock.
Every page is a print-ready, letter-size PDF (8.5" × 11") — the same four page types are also built into the app, if you'd rather plan on a screen.
3 Big Rocks, up to 5 Medium Rocks, an hourly time-block schedule, and a notes area for today.
3 Big Rocks and up to 5 Medium Rocks for the week, plus a day-by-day glance at Monday through Sunday.
3 Big Rocks and up to 5 Medium Rocks for the month, plus a blank calendar grid that works for any month.
A 30-item backlog checklist for everything not yet scheduled — raw material to promote into a future rock.
Every Cairn page comes in 10 hand-built colorways, from warm neutrals to bold pops of color — on paper and in the app. Pick one for the whole set, or mix and match by mood.
Cairn works the same way whether you're holding a pen or a phone: name your big rocks first, and let everything else fit in around them. Pick whichever fits how you plan — or use both.
A one-time download you print at home. No screens, no login — just pages.
Tell us what pages you need, and we'll print them, bind them, and ship them to you.
Every add-on pack keeps the Cairn method — big rocks first, everything else fits in around them — and reshapes it for a specific part of life. Sold separately on our store, in all 10 colorways.
Plan your big meals first, then fill in the rest of the week's cooking and grocery runs around them.
Plan the big moments of a project or event first, then fill in the smaller details around them.
Ship the big rocks of a release first, then clear the rest of the backlog around them.
Mark the big stops of a trip first, then fill in the rest of the itinerary around them.
Fund the big financial rocks first, then balance the rest of the month around them.
A daily habit tracker built on one idea: consistency is the trail, so keep marking it.
Plan a wedding around its biggest milestones first, then let the smaller details fall into place.
Plan the big lessons of a week first, then fit the rest of the classroom day around them.
Build the big rocks of a renovation or move first, then fit the punch-list items in around them.
Land the big rocks — clients, projects, deadlines — first, then fit the rest of the business in around them.
Stack the big rocks of a quarter or a goal first — that's how you reach the top.
Cairn-style rapid logging for bullet journalers: Future Log, Monthly Log, and Daily Log, all in the same stack.
Paper Kit and add-on pack downloads live in your Payhip library on store.cairnplanner.com.
US Letter (8.5" × 11"), designed to print cleanly on any home printer.
Print-ready PDFs — one per page type, per colorway. No special software or fonts required.
Yes — the PDFs also work well in annotation apps like GoodNotes or Notability if you'd rather write on them with a stylus instead of printing. For a purpose-built digital experience with syncing and the Quarry's weighting feature, use the app instead.
Add-on packs take the same big-rocks stacking system and reshape it for a specific purpose — meal planning, home projects, travel, budgeting, habit tracking, wedding planning, lesson planning, renovations, freelance work, big goals, and bullet journaling. Each is sold separately on store.cairnplanner.com, in all 10 colorways. See the Add-On Packs section above for the full list.
No — every colorway is included in your purchase, on paper and in the app. Switch anytime.
The Paper Kit and add-on packs are one-time purchases — yours forever, unlimited printing. There's no subscription for either.
Yes. Our store is hosted on Payhip, and checkout runs through PayPal — Cairn never sees or stores your payment details.
Not loving it? Email us within 14 days of purchase for a full refund, no questions asked.