Capture to today

Anything captured during the day - a line of text, a screenshot, a PDF, a recording - lands on today's daily note, beside the tasks due. One inbox per day, reachable from the browser, the iPhone, the desktop or a script.

What you can do

• Paste or drop images, PDFs and recordings straight onto the daily note in the browser.
• Send a note from the iPhone app, Siri or Shortcuts. See iPhone capture.
• Send from any script or tool through the capture API, with a personal API token.
• Record a voice note: the recording and its transcript land as one audio card. See Audio and transcripts.
• Link Nextcloud files as cards.
• Capture something made earlier: a capture made up to 7 days ago lands on that day's note.

How to

Browser:

1. Open My Stuff > Today.
2. Press Mod+V to paste an image or file, or drop it on the canvas.

Capture API:

1. Issue a token with knowledge:write under Settings > You > Connections > API tokens.
2. POST /api/v1/daily-notes/today/notes with text, files[] (images, PDFs, audio), or both. nextcloud_paths[] adds Nextcloud files as cards (also needs nextcloud:read).
3. Optional: captured_at for a capture made earlier; an Idempotency-Key header so a retry writes nothing twice (kept 24 hours).
4. The answer carries canvas_id, date, node_ids (top to bottom) and url.

What lands where

• Captures stack in their own column right of Due today, below the lowest card there. Notes made before 9 Oct 2026 have an ## Inbox heading, and captures go under it.
• A text and its files make a note, then one card per file.
• A recording with text: the text is the transcript, on the audio card. No separate note.
• An open daily note updates when a capture lands.

Limits

• Files: images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP), PDFs and audio (M4A, AAC, MP3, WAV, WebM). Audio up to 25 MB, other files up to 10 MB.
• At most 5 Nextcloud paths per capture.
• Backdating reaches 7 days.
• Not available to client accounts.

Related

• Today and tomorrow
• iPhone capture
• Audio and transcripts

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