Capture something quickly

Quick Capture gives you one small entry point for ideas and incoming material. Send an item to Captures when you want to sort it out later, or choose a Type to create a finished Object immediately.

Open Quick Capture

Use any of these entry points:

Press mod + Shift + N while using Lar. mod is ⌘ on macOS and Ctrl on Windows and Linux.
Choose Quick capture from the command palette.
Select Add capture from the Captures page.
On desktop, press mod + Shift + Space from another app. This global shortcut brings Lar forward and opens the same Capture dialog.

Add an item to Captures

Open Quick Capture.
Leave the destination set to Captures.
Type or paste the content.
Select Add to Captures, or press Enter.

The new item appears on the New tab of Captures. Use Shift + Enter for a new line without submitting.

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

Create a typed Object immediately

Use this path when you already know where the content belongs.

Open Quick Capture.
Select the destination chip.
Choose an Object Type, such as Task, Event, or one of your custom Types.
Optionally add tags in the Tags field.
Select Create Type, or press Enter.

For a multi-line entry, Lar uses the first line as the Object title and puts the remaining text in the body when that Type supports a body.

Capture a link

Paste a single http:// or https:// URL into an empty Capture field. Lar shows it as an attachment chip and sends it to Captures.

If you paste a URL alongside other text, it remains part of that text instead. You can remove an attached URL with the remove button on its chip.

Lar does not need to fetch the page in order to save the capture. Any later conversion, reader extraction, AI analysis, or workflow action is a separate operation.

Attach files

You can add one or more files in three ways:

Select the paperclip button and choose files.
Paste files into the Capture field.
Drag files into the dialog.

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

Attachments always use the Captures destination. If a Type was selected, adding the first attachment switches the destination back to Captures and hides the Type and tag controls. Process the item afterward to choose its final Type.

Record a voice memo

Open Quick Capture.
Select the microphone button.
Allow microphone access if your operating system asks.
Speak, then select the microphone button again to stop.
Select Add to Captures.

The recording is stored as an attachment on the capture. Recording does not automatically send audio to an AI provider. Transcription or summarization is a separate, consent-gated action.

Paste the clipboard directly

Choose Paste to Captures from the command palette, or press mod + Shift + V. Lar reads the clipboard once and immediately adds its current contents to Captures.

There is no background clipboard watcher. Lar never polls the clipboard, which avoids silently reading passwords, one-time codes, or other sensitive values.

If a capture is reported as a duplicate

Capture channels can provide a stable source identity so retries do not create repeated items. When Lar reports a duplicate, the earlier item is already present; open Captures and filter by its source rather than submitting it repeatedly.