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.
Persona
“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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“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.”
view evidence on reddit“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.”
view evidence on redditWorkaround
“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.”
view evidence on reddit“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.”
view evidence on redditDesire
“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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