Welcome. Make yourself at home.
Start with one note. You do not need an account, a technical background, or a tour of the engine room.
Cursors is a place to keep things you want to pick back up. The small apps at the front are the easy entrance. The cockpit lets you look inside the larger experimental system — without having to understand it first.
1. Try something that works right here
Open START. Under #this-browser, write a sentence and press SAVE LOCAL NOTE. Refresh the page. Your note should still be there.
The current Start page has an actual local notebook and address book beneath the welcome.
The message Saved in this browser means just that. It has not been sent to a friend or uploaded to a cloud account. These notes are not encrypted. Clearing this site's data removes them, and private-browsing sessions may discard them when you close the window.
The Your people card lets you save a name and a public mailbox address. It does not send an invitation or grant anyone control over your work. A guest's contacts stay in that guest address book; creating a Self does not secretly move them into a different identity.
2. Make a Self when you are ready
Choose SIGN IN + RESUME in the top row, or the big SIGN IN / MAKE MY SELF button. A Self is simply your Cursors sign-in identity.
The sign-in page separates the local Self, optional public mailbox, and encrypted recovery.
Choose CREATE WITH PASSKEY, follow your browser's fingerprint, face, or device-unlock prompt, then choose UNLOCK WITH PASSKEY. Creation deliberately leaves the new identity locked.
Not every passkey supports the encryption feature this prototype needs. A normal passkey sign-in working elsewhere does not guarantee this one will. When your browser cannot do it, stay with the local tools. Do not paste a password, secret key, or API token into anything as a workaround.
Already made a Self here? Use UNLOCK WITH PASSKEY rather than creating another one.
3. Look at the small service strip
Just under the navigation, Cursors tells you what it actually knows about the cloud.
Cloud features paused means this deployment intentionally is not accepting those operations. Unavailable, offline, or unknown means the app cannot establish current availability. None of those means your local notes were uploaded or your Self was lost.
Configuration observed is only a first check. It is not confirmation that you are signed in, that your mailbox was published, or that a message was delivered. The relevant button must return its own success result.
4. Chat with a person — only when the cloud path is available
Open CHAT for your notebook, address book, and the separate experimental cloud panel. Both people need compatible local identities and a working deployment to use that cloud panel.
The Chat view separates local notes from experimental remote conversations.
The cloud panel says NOT E2E YET: its note text is visible to the service. Keep secrets out. Chat with a Friend explains the exact steps and the difference between saving a contact and sending a message.
5. Curiosity gets its own button
Choose COCKPIT. Click a component to select it. Double-click to focus it. Return to Self takes you back to your local observer. The organized board, routed traces, and inspection panels are the real cockpit, not a replacement landing-page illustration.
The cockpit keeps its segmented machine and inspectable components.
A label such as unobserved, configured, planned, or research is important. A component on the board is not a promise that its network connection or future feature is working.
Before you leave
A note in the same browser is the easy kind of resuming. Recovering an identity on a different device needs an encrypted backup and its original compatible passkey. Publishing a public address alone cannot restore it. Recovering cursor work also needs that work's checkpoints and evidence; signing in is not a magic restore-everything button.
Read Resume Your Cursors before clearing browser data or relying on another device. The GitHub guide describes an optional backup carrier, not a replacement identity.
On iPhone or without WebRTC
Use Cursors on iPhone and iPad for local notes, verified published HTTPS parts, HTTPS-only mode, and returning after the phone sleeps. This does not enable a paused cloud service, guarantee cold offline boot, or make cloud notes end-to-end encrypted.