Smart Capture
Smart Capture enhances the Quick Add modal with AI that understands your vault context.
How to use
Section titled “How to use”- Open Quick Add (Cmd+Shift+A)
- Toggle the AI checkbox in the header
- Type your task
- AI parses it with awareness of your projects, recent tags, and current file
- Results appear with an “AI” badge in the preview
- Edit any field, then Enter to save
What the AI does
Section titled “What the AI does”- Project matching: suggests a project from your actual project list, not just keyword matching
- Date resolution: understands “next Friday” relative to today (including the day of the week)
- Tag suggestion: suggests relevant tags from your recent usage
- Description cleanup: extracts metadata and returns a clean, action-oriented description
What it does NOT do
Section titled “What it does NOT do”- Guess priorities unless you explicitly indicate urgency
- Suggest projects when there’s no confident match
- Set dates you didn’t mention
- Change the meaning of what you typed
Smart Capture is a parser, not an author. The task is user-authored. The sidecar records that Smart Capture was used for debugging, but no AI provenance flag is set on the task.
Fallback
Section titled “Fallback”If the AI call fails (network error, rate limit, bad key), Quick Add falls back to local natural language parsing automatically.
Uses the lightweight model (Haiku-class) for speed. Typical response time: under 1 second.