Capture

Turn raw incoming material into durable, connected, atomic notes - fast.

The capture pipeline is the front door of the second brain. Its job: convert any input (PDF, article, transcript, clipping, stray thought) into atomic notes that are linked, typed and findable, without dumping full documents into the vault.

When to Use

• New files landed in 00-Inbox/ (PDFs, clippings, screenshots, notes)
• User shares an article, video, or document and wants it "in the brain"
• A meeting happened and notes need ingestion (pair with the meetings skill)
• A deep-dive (article, thesis, framework, whitepaper) produced analysis that must become a reference note

Don't use for: retrieval (see retrieval), nightly cleanup (see consolidate), or capturing stray thoughts (see signal).