Capture something quickly

You’re reading an article and a book recommendation catches your eye. Press Ctrl+Shift+Space, type “Read Thinking in Systems”, press Enter, and you’re back to reading. The idea waits in Captures until you’re ready to turn it into a Book.

Quick Capture is one small dialog for ideas and incoming material. Send an item to Captures to sort it later, or pick a Type to create a finished Object straight away.

Open Quick Capture

Mod is ⌘ on macOS and Ctrl on Windows and Linux.

From	How
Anywhere in Lar	Press `Ctrl+Shift+N`, or run Quick capture… from the command palette.
Anywhere in Lar, straight to Captures	Press `Ctrl+Shift+I`, or run Add to Captures from the command palette.
The Captures page	Choose Add to Captures (the plus button).
Any app (desktop)	Press `Ctrl+Shift+Space`. Lar comes to the front and opens the dialog.
The desktop menus	Choose File → Quick Capture, or Quick Capture in the tray or menu bar icon.

Ctrl+Shift+N and Quick capture… may start with the Type you’re currently viewing already selected. The other entry points always start with Captures selected, so check the destination chip before you submit.

Add an item to Captures

Open Quick Capture.
Make sure the destination chip shows Captures.
Type or paste your content.
Press Enter or choose Add to Captures.

The item appears on the New tab of Captures. Press Shift+Enter to start a new line without submitting.

To capture several items in a row, press Ctrl+Enter instead. Lar saves the item, clears the dialog, and keeps it open for the next one.

If you close the dialog with unsaved text or attachments, Lar asks before discarding them.

Create a typed Object right away

Use this when you already know what the item is.

Open Quick Capture.
Select the destination chip and choose an Object Type, such as Task or one of your own Types, like a Book.
Type the content. The first line becomes the title; the rest goes into the body.
Optionally add tags in the Tags field, separated by commas or spaces.
Press Enter or choose Create Type.

If the Type has no body, keep the entry to one line. Lar disables the button and explains why rather than dropping your extra lines.

Capture a link

Paste a single http:// or https:// URL into the empty field. Lar shows it as a link chip and sends it to Captures. To remove it, use the remove button on the chip.

A URL pasted alongside other text stays part of the text.

Saving a link doesn’t fetch the page. Anything you do with it later, such as converting it, running a workflow, or asking AI about it, is a separate step.

Attach files

Add one or more files by:

choosing the paperclip button;
pasting files into the text field;
dragging files onto the dialog.

You can also drop files anywhere on the Captures page to capture them directly.

Items with attachments always go to Captures. Adding an attachment switches the destination back to Captures and hides the Type and Tags controls. Choose the final Type when you process the capture.

Record a voice memo

Open Quick Capture.
Choose the microphone button (Record a voice memo).
Allow microphone access if your system asks.
Speak, then choose the microphone button again to stop.
Choose Add to Captures.

The recording is attached to the capture as an audio file. Recording never sends audio to an AI provider; transcription or summarization is a separate step that asks for consent.

Paste the clipboard straight to Captures

In the desktop app, press Ctrl+Shift+V, or run Paste to Captures from the command palette. Lar reads the clipboard once and adds its contents to Captures without opening the dialog.

Lar never watches or polls the clipboard, so it can’t pick up passwords or one-time codes on its own. It reads the clipboard only when you run this command.

”Already in your Captures”

Some capture channels send a stable ID with each item so that retries don’t create duplicates. If Lar says the item is Already in your Captures, the earlier copy is there. Open Captures and filter by its source to find it.