Global shortcut
Write it down without leaving.
Open Quick Capture over whatever you are doing, save the thought, and return to the app behind it without breaking your flow.
Inbox & Quick Capture
Catch it before it disappears.
Capture a thought from anywhere. Let it wait in the Inbox, then decide whether it becomes a note, joins one, or simply gets done.
Capture quickly
Open from anywhere
Triage later
Prioritize, snooze, or finish
Move it forward
Convert or append to a note
Before it needs a folder
Make room for the not-yet-note.
A link, reminder, task, or half-formed idea should be easy to save before you know where it belongs. Inbox keeps those loose ends separate from the notes you have already shaped.
Just enough context
Give the fragment a useful signal.
Add an optional title, priority, or tag while the idea is fresh. Or save the body alone and leave every decision for later.
Triage on your time
Not everything needs attention now.
Sort the Inbox, snooze something until it matters, mark it done, or search by title, body, tag, priority, and Inbox number.
When the thought is ready
Give it a permanent place.
An Inbox item can become a normal note, join an existing one, or move into today’s Daily note. The capture stays traceable in Done, so processing it never erases where it came from.
Make it a note
Turn a capture into a full note in the folder you choose when the thought has grown into something worth keeping.
Add it to existing context
Append the body to a note that already owns the idea, then open the destination and keep working there.
Let time be the structure
Send it to today’s Daily note when chronology is all the organization the thought needs.
Find any loose end
Search titles, body text, tags, priority, source details, or a stable Inbox number such as INB-42.
Still ordinary Markdown
Every capture is a local Markdown file with its triage state stored in readable YAML frontmatter.
Desktop and iPhone
Capture on either device and keep the same Inbox workflow traveling with your workspace.
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Feature history
Capture got quicker. Triage got calmer.
Inbox has grown from a holding area into a complete capture and processing workflow. These releases made it faster to add, revisit, and move ideas forward.
- 0.48.1July 2026Inbox items became workspace tabsOpen captures in tabs and split panes, then return to the exact item from Recently Viewed without losing context.
- 0.48.0July 2026Faster actions from everywherePriority, snooze, Done, and Reopen actions moved into the command bar alongside the redesigned Inbox navigation.
- 0.47.2July 2026Triage controls beside the editorPriority, snooze, and completion controls became immediately available above every Inbox capture.
- 0.46.1June 2026Capture a title and move onQuick Capture gained support for title-only Inbox entries when a short reminder is all you need.
- 0.44.1June 2026A fuller capture workflowInbox items gained wikilinks and consistent context-menu actions for priority, snooze, conversion, appending, reveal, and deletion.
- 0.43.0May 2026A dedicated place for unfinished thoughtsOctarine introduced the Inbox, its Quick Capture popout, Active and Done sections, search, sorting, and note conversion.
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A fast, private Markdown workspace for capturing ideas, shaping notes, and keeping your writing in files you control.
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