When Your Brain Needs a Laundry Basket
Modern life is basically an endless stream of information, things to worry about, random ideas that show up at inconvenient times, and Very Important Things™ you absolutely cannot forget.
Sure, you could go old-school and write everything down in a notebook, on a sticky note, or on whatever scrap of paper happens to be nearby.
Great plan—until:
“Wait, where did I write that down?”
“I swear it was here somewhere…”
“Oh. Cool. I left my notebook at home.”
New problems call for new tools.
I’ve tried plenty of note-taking and to-do apps, and eventually came to one conclusion: simple really is better.
You can build the world’s most beautiful system with folders, categories, and 47 carefully curated tags… and then one day a thought comes along that fits none of them. So what now? Force it into a category? Create tag #48?
I’m tired just thinking about it.
Sometimes what you really need is a laundry basket for your brain.
Just toss your thoughts in.
Then, whether you’re on your iPhone, MacBook, or iPad, you can pull up the list whenever you want. Throw away what no longer matters, remind yourself of what does, and organize things later if you feel like it.
Attention is a limited resource, and probably one of the most valuable things we have. There’s no reason to waste it trying to keep every loose thought floating around in your head.
The solution is pretty easy to find.
(Especially if you remember which app you’re currently reviewing.)
One last thing: I recently ran into a bug and emailed the developers about it. They fixed it quickly and followed up once the update was live.
A genuine thank-you to the team for being so responsive.
Sure, you could go old-school and write everything down in a notebook, on a sticky note, or on whatever scrap of paper happens to be nearby.
Great plan—until:
“Wait, where did I write that down?”
“I swear it was here somewhere…”
“Oh. Cool. I left my notebook at home.”
New problems call for new tools.
I’ve tried plenty of note-taking and to-do apps, and eventually came to one conclusion: simple really is better.
You can build the world’s most beautiful system with folders, categories, and 47 carefully curated tags… and then one day a thought comes along that fits none of them. So what now? Force it into a category? Create tag #48?
I’m tired just thinking about it.
Sometimes what you really need is a laundry basket for your brain.
Just toss your thoughts in.
Then, whether you’re on your iPhone, MacBook, or iPad, you can pull up the list whenever you want. Throw away what no longer matters, remind yourself of what does, and organize things later if you feel like it.
Attention is a limited resource, and probably one of the most valuable things we have. There’s no reason to waste it trying to keep every loose thought floating around in your head.
The solution is pretty easy to find.
(Especially if you remember which app you’re currently reviewing.)
One last thing: I recently ran into a bug and emailed the developers about it. They fixed it quickly and followed up once the update was live.
A genuine thank-you to the team for being so responsive.
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Deceptively simple, extremely useful
How many times have you wished that you could simply tell Siri to remember something for you? A number, a name, a book or restaurant someone recommended, or one of those fleeting, creative ideas that will be gone in 10 seconds if you don’t write it down? But having to retrieve the phone, open an app, create a new entry, type information, and save… too much friction, doesn’t get done. Capture is the solution. I like using it hands off with Siri. It’s beautifully simple.
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WatchOS Broken Complication
The complication, which is supposed to show how many notes are in your Inbox, does not ever update. It checks the count when you first add the complication, but that number never changes. Have contacted the developer but no response.
Folders folders folders… where are they?
An incredible app. I use it daily I think haha. And huge props to the dev for making it lifetime purchase. Would be huge if we had a folders option. Or line breaks. Something. I’ve even emailed the dev about this without a response. Please consider this haha
This app is unbelievable.
There are countless apps out there, even native apps, that will do what this app does and a whole lot more. However, none of them do so with such beautiful simplicity, efficiency, and efficacy. To top it all off, it offers a lifetime purchase at a price that is less than it is worth.
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First Impressions
I haven’t used the app for very long but my first impressions are so far pretty solid.
Clean, uncluttered and pleasant to use.
I have an issue with being able to keep up with my thoughts as well as accessing my memories at the right time, there’s simply too much going on,
I’m torrentially flooded with responsibilities as well as fleeting creative ideas that I have learned the hard way are just too valuable not to ensure that I’m not wasting money, neglecting responsibility and taking for granted the gifts that are given
in
between thoughts
-in the liminal spaces,
those creative ideas that seem to flow in from who knows where
but,
they feel familiar, like truth when it slaps you upside your head, I often think it feels like an older wiser me, I’m not sure what that means or how that works, nevertheless I am grateful I learned to quiet the mind and listen in the liminal.
So far this App has begun the process of solving my problem and so far it’s doing wonderful at it.
I’m not sure if their are features that allow you to change the Text formatting or add tags or colors or badges etc during the process of entering your thought, if so that’s wonderful if not, maybe it could be an option if the Dev settles on the idea that there’s a way to implement this idea without negatively effecting the balance the Dev clearly has worked very hard to achieve and is no easy feat I’m sure and that brings this review to a close,
so I say to you the Developer(s); thank you for your efforts and your labor of love.
Post Script,
I’ll turn to finish the review properly in due course.
Clean, uncluttered and pleasant to use.
I have an issue with being able to keep up with my thoughts as well as accessing my memories at the right time, there’s simply too much going on,
I’m torrentially flooded with responsibilities as well as fleeting creative ideas that I have learned the hard way are just too valuable not to ensure that I’m not wasting money, neglecting responsibility and taking for granted the gifts that are given
in
between thoughts
-in the liminal spaces,
those creative ideas that seem to flow in from who knows where
but,
they feel familiar, like truth when it slaps you upside your head, I often think it feels like an older wiser me, I’m not sure what that means or how that works, nevertheless I am grateful I learned to quiet the mind and listen in the liminal.
So far this App has begun the process of solving my problem and so far it’s doing wonderful at it.
I’m not sure if their are features that allow you to change the Text formatting or add tags or colors or badges etc during the process of entering your thought, if so that’s wonderful if not, maybe it could be an option if the Dev settles on the idea that there’s a way to implement this idea without negatively effecting the balance the Dev clearly has worked very hard to achieve and is no easy feat I’m sure and that brings this review to a close,
so I say to you the Developer(s); thank you for your efforts and your labor of love.
Post Script,
I’ll turn to finish the review properly in due course.
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Really cool way to leave notes to myself
Great app - great addition to my daily life and to the other apps I already use. No brainer.
Needs tags
This app is excellent for capturing things as you go through your day. What it’s less good at is organizing the captures you’ve made. Items can only belong to one folder at a time, versus having a system of tags. It’s also not possible to even copy things from one folder to the other.
Unusable after recent update
The ability to save web links to a list in Capture is welcome. Unfortunately, after several uses of this new feature, all my lists have disappeared and I am invited to use the app as a 'clean slate'. My data, including any link I have tried to add, seems to be lost forever. Any suggestions for its recovery?
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Quick
Purchased full app, but I want to support your ongoing dev, how can I support.
My brain
This is one of the few apps I bought as a lifetime purchase. I have mine bound to my action button, so one press and I can capture the note. It's the lowest friction note taking app I've ever used. Everything goes into an inbox where you can archive and sort. Using it is as easy as the action button or launch, then hitting paste and enter. You can do more, but it's responsive to the bare minimum. For my particular cognition, it's been a life saver.
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Fantastic app
Every single devices should come preloaded with this app.
Imagine quick note with a smart share sheet and auto archive feature.
I just which the app supported scrivener, and Freeform.
I am not sure how Freeform integration would work exactly but I wish I could send certain files to a particular Freeform instance with one click.
Imagine quick note with a smart share sheet and auto archive feature.
I just which the app supported scrivener, and Freeform.
I am not sure how Freeform integration would work exactly but I wish I could send certain files to a particular Freeform instance with one click.
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limited organization options
Capture is good for (as the name says) capturing URLs, bits of text, etc. But if you’re looking to *keep* things in Capture, the options for organizing your captures are rudimentary. Captures are organized into lists instead of a more modern approach of using tags — so each capture can belong to one list at a time.
Interacting with the app is still fairly rough. Dragging captures from the Inbox to a list sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. Option-dragging captures shows the cursor “+” icon indicating they’re being duplicated, but they are moved instead. Frankly, the design feels like it was done for iOS/iPad OS and the Mac is an afterthought.
Ultimately I think Capture is designed as a waypoint, not an end destination, which is kind of a shame.
Interacting with the app is still fairly rough. Dragging captures from the Inbox to a list sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. Option-dragging captures shows the cursor “+” icon indicating they’re being duplicated, but they are moved instead. Frankly, the design feels like it was done for iOS/iPad OS and the Mac is an afterthought.
Ultimately I think Capture is designed as a waypoint, not an end destination, which is kind of a shame.
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My New Favorite Reference App!!!!
I use it as a catchall. I used to struggle with the management of life’s snippets: a clam I’d like to look up, the fact that I’d like to have kebabs at some point this summer, the name of a photographer whose work I’d like to look into more, the idea for the next chapter of my book, all have a home in Capture. Having somewhere to put the snippets also makes it more possible for me to adopt a note-taking app, most aren’t really set up for the “next step” of a note, where Capture serves as a repository and lets you send the note to its next destination, whether that’s sending your chapter idea to your word processor or setting a calendar event to get those kebabs with a friend. It just needs the ability to export whole lists or specific captures in bulk to be perfect. I’m incredibly happy with and excited by this app.
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Really good but….
I really enjoy using this app but on two separate occasions it did not save what I wrote down.
Some (obvious?) features to add, but a still useful tool
I use your app to log actions I take throughout the day, but I end up with a lot of entries to export at the end of the day. It would be a great addition to be have some batch operations. The two that come to mind are multiple export (select multiple; export as a single item or series of items) and/or merge within Capture (select multiple items and create one Capture item.)
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Great at Capture, Limited with Export + other options
Absolutely love the capture experience. For this to be my 5-star goto capture app, however, I would need options to export and/or merge multiple entries, and also more keyboard shortcuts for the macOS version (or at least menu commands I could hook into). As it is, I’ll need to switch to Drafts, Notes, or something else.
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Sneaky powerful
Love how versatile this puppy is
Excellent
Seamlessly integrates with my setup (TickTick and Obsidian). Thanks for your hard work!
