Mobile Capture Workflows

Mobile capture is one tap to save the spark before scrolling away - share sheet to inbox.

Key Concept

• Twelve taps kills the spark.
• Level 1: If saving an idea takes too many taps on your phone, the idea dies - like needing five keys to open a diary when the thought is already gone.
• Level 2: Twelve taps kills the spark - capture must be faster than the distraction that follows the thought.
• Level 3: Mobile capture fails when friction exceeds impulse - one gesture to inbox or the idea evaporates.
• Level 4: Audit your capture path on the device you actually carry - if it needs more than three taps, simplify before the next spark.
• Level 5: Context Aware Capture and The Trusted Inbox assume speed - Analog Capture Tools win when the phone workflow is slower than a pocket notebook.
• On mobile, friction is the enemy - most ideas die between the notification and the app switch.
• I shrunk capture to share sheet → inbox, same lane as Capture: save first, sort never.
• Voice memo on the bench, one tap at the jeepney stop - the stake is the third quarter wiping what halftime almost saved.

Examples

• Halftime idea on the bench - I voice-memo'd it before the third quarter wiped it.
• Jeepney stop, blog idea hits - one tap to notes before the next ride shakes it out of my head.

Note Relationships