Lab · Tinkering
Cardinal
Business cards remembered, mapped, and not lost in a drawer.
01Why it exists
I keep meeting people, taking their card, and then losing track of who they were and where I met them. Cardinal is the answer to "I know I have that person's card somewhere".
02What I'm exploring
Snap a card, OCR the contents, drop a pin where you met. Searchable later by company, name, or location. The interesting design question is how to make it feel like a tool, not yet another contact app.
The card is the artefact. The memory of where you got it is the actual value.
SwiftUI
SwiftData
Vision
MapKit
Foundation Models
MVVM
03What's next
Get the capture flow under five seconds. If it's slower than just keeping the physical card, the app fails.