Signal

The best ideas are the ones that interrupt you. Stray thoughts - principles, insights, aspirations, quotations - are the rawest form of signal. This skill captures them verbatim and indexes them, because paraphrasing destroys the value: the original voice is the value.

When to Use

• The owner says something that sounds like a principle, insight, aspiration, or quote ("that's a thought worth keeping")
• A spontaneous idea arrives mid-conversation
• The owner dictates something to be captured "as is"

Don't use for: documents or articles (see capture), or facts to remember (see memory). This is for the owner's own voice.

How to capture