capture

Quick Capture

Capture a task, bookmark, idea, follow-up, or research item to the personal inbox with zero friction.

Capture Flow

1. Take the user's raw text (from args or message)
2. Analyze content to determine structured fields (see Categorization below)
3. Call the mcp__capture-mcp__capture tool
4. Confirm in ONE line: Captured: "[title]" (category) [tags if any]

Categorization

Before calling the capture tool, infer these fields from the text:

Category — determine from content:

• bookmark — contains URLs, or phrases like "check out", "read this", "watch this"
• follow-up — "follow up", "circle back", "ping", "ask about", "remind me"
• idea — "idea:", "what if", "could we", "feature idea", "maybe we should"
• research — "look into", "investigate", "compare", "evaluate", "explore"
• task — default for anything actionable that doesn't match above

URL — extract any URL present in the text

Tags — infer relevant tags from context (project names, topics, tech)

Title — clean the raw text into a concise title (strip filler words, normalize)

Tool Parameters

Call mcp__capture-mcp__capture with:

• text (required) — the raw user input
• title — cleaned-up title
• category — inferred category from above
• url — extracted URL if present
• tags — array of relevant tags
• source — always "claude-code"

Other Operations

When the user asks about their captures rather than adding new ones:

• "What's in my inbox?" → call mcp__capture-mcp__list with no status filter or status: "inbox"
• "Search captures for X" → call mcp__capture-mcp__search with query
• "Give me my digest" → call mcp__capture-mcp__digest
• "Mark X as done" → call mcp__capture-mcp__done with the item ID
• "Update priority on X" → call mcp__capture-mcp__update
• "Delete X" → call mcp__capture-mcp__delete
• "Promote X to beads" → call mcp__capture-mcp__promote

Response Format

Keep responses minimal — one line for captures, a short table for lists. The user has ADHD; walls of text are harmful.