Opportunity report

Quick mobile capture is too slow / awkward

Users repeatedly lose ideas because mobile capture in heavy PKM apps is slow. They patch with lock‑screen widgets, QuickAdd/Lumberjack plugins, or build voice→transcript→database pipelines. They want a native, frictionless quick-capture (widget/action button) that drops items into an inbox.

Worth it score 80
High confidence
4 signals
7 evidence

Persona

1 evidence
Mobile-first note takers: commuters, students, people who want to capture ideas without opening a heavy app (iPhone/iPad/Android users).

I'm very close to trying to develop that with Claude code. I want a simple app for daily notes on my screen.

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Pain

2 evidence
Adding notes on the fly from mobile is slow or cumbersome (Notion and Obsidian mobile feels heavy); users lose ideas before they can capture them and want an ultra‑fast 'post‑it' or lock‑screen capture.

Is there a way to make adding notes in Obsidian as easy as Apple Notes makes it? ... Ideally a quick way to add a quick note ... even put it into a folder called Quick Notes.

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I'm looking for an ultra-simple application to take my daily notes... I just want to have a sort of post-it note on my screen with all the different things I'm doing.

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Workaround

3 evidence
Users use widgets, action‑button shortcuts, lightweight apps, or build automated pipelines (wearable recorder → transcription → create note). Plugins like Lumberjack, QuickAdd, and external apps like Google Keep, Markor or dedicated pipelines are common.

With Obsidian 1.11 you can add a widget on your lock screen to instantly create a note. If you want to go even faster you could even bind a shortcut to your action button.

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Using the action button on an iPhone 17, I can open a new note or my daily note immediately with no delay.

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I built a 'voice-to-database' pipeline: capture (wearable recorder) → transcriber → summarizer → create a new page in my Notion 'Inbox' via API.

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Desire

1 evidence
An ultra‑light quick-capture interface (lock‑screen/widget/action‑button) that creates timestamped notes into an inbox or daily note immediately — or a one‑tap voice→note pipeline.

I just want to have a sort of post-it note on my screen with all the different things I'm doing.

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