Capture

Analog Capture Tools

I love my wiki, but sometimes paper wins - meetings, sermons, the pocket notebook that survives a dead phone battery.

My brain is for having ideas, not storing them. A Second Brain is the system that holds them - starting with capture.

Capture is where PKM lives or dies. I save what resonates, not everything I see - and I keep one inbox I actually trust.

A link without context is a mystery six weeks later. I try to capture why I saved something - project, mood, question - while it's still obvious.

Most sparks die on mobile because capture takes twelve taps. I reduced mine to share sheet → inbox.

Most content is noise. PKM fails if capture doesn't filter. I save signal - stuff that changes action or belief.

Collecting articles feels like progress. It isn't. The collector's fallacy bit me until I tied saves to express deadlines.

If I don't trust my inbox, I capture in my head instead. One pipe, weekly empty, no exceptions.