Quick Capture
The log of what you tried, and whether it helped
Every other section answers "what did I write down". Capture answers the question people actually have months later — "what did I do about this last time, and did it help?"
Tobey canAddAskEditDelete— each through a card you press.
In this section
What you can do
- 01
- Filed by the situation, not the title
- A capture is keyed on what it was FOR — a fever, a flaky build, a visa queue — so it comes back when the situation does, even if you describe it in completely different words.
- 02
- Tobey asks how it went
- A capture starts with no outcome. The next day, inside a conversation you were already having, Tobey asks whether it worked — and "never found out" is recorded as its own answer, not as a blank.
- 03
- Recall you did not ask for
- Say "my head is killing me again" and Tobey answers with what you took last time and what you said about it, without you having to remember that a note exists.
- 04
- The fallback for everything else
- Anything worth keeping that fits no other section lands here rather than being lost — it is the last resort on purpose, never the easy one.
Questions
About quick capture
How is this different from notes?
A note is something you go and look for. A capture is something that finds you: it is indexed by the situation it was about, so it surfaces when that situation recurs rather than when you remember to search.
What kinds of things belong here?
Four kinds — a fix that worked, a detail worth looking up later, a list, or a plain note. Medicines, error messages, the trick that got the printer working, which counter at the office actually helps.
Is what I write here private?
The body of every capture is encrypted at rest. The situation and title stay searchable so recall can work at all, and that trade-off is deliberate rather than incidental.
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