Capture systems that skip the backlog

#ThingsIWantToExist a direct-to-destination capture system you see (eg) a tweet, you want to - append it to a thread - put it in roam with a tag - get reminded of it if you visit a city this currently takes too many clicks, so people bookmark tweets, never to touch them again

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean · Mar 22, 2023

I feel sad watching people bookmark my tweets while I know they're never gonna look at them not sad for me—sad for the people pretending they ARE gonna look at them

Mar 23, 2023

I have an intuition that this is like, a beautiful counterpart to @CompliceGoals Complice is a do-stuff system without the backlog / staleness but you know what else could exist without staleness? a capture system

Capture is one of the 5 pieces of GTD (Getting Things Done) I forget the rest but people capture a lot of BS and the problem with GTD is that you have to look at all of that stuff again and decide what to do with it, otherwise the system breaks

90% of the time when I capture something, I already know I don't NEED to look at at it again I just want to see it again, IFF a particular situation occurs

Tiago Forte @fortelabs · Mar 20, 2023

Unlike with your house or garage, there's no penalty for keeping digital stuff forever As long as it doesn't distract you from your current priorities

so I want a way to capture directly to that context to capture without creating a new task for myself to deal with later

what does this actually look like? well, if I were twitter I'd allow people to name certain threads and then I'd have a little "add to thread" button instead of bookmark, that would let me pick from a filtery dropdown, then would immediately open the composer to QT-append

this could probably be built as a browser extension (something for @TwemexApp or @thlpr to add, arguably) but it'd be tough to get the UX right without being directly plugged in

you could make a more general browser extension where the role of the extension is to capture links or screenshots or text and then pipe them to all sorts of different places. make a bunch of presets to start, and allow people to make their own plugins or use webhooks+ifttt

to some extent, with adequate search/ai-summarizing/autotagging etc, this isn't necessary, and you can just dump it all in a pile and have the system help you sift through it later but also FUCK THAT SHIT the way YOU PERSONALLY curate what's relevant to what is MEANINGFUL

like to take an example, I'll scroll the tl right now and find something that FOR ME makes a connection that nobody else (not you, not a search/AI) would make [scroll scroll scroll... harder than I thought. doesn't happen every time]

okay so this tweet connects to a trippy video I watched by Corey Anton - The Nothing That Is: Language Thought, and Negation perhaps via an experience I had of a nonverbal consent workshop where we pretended to be animals and just played with each other

Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv · Mar 12, 2023

over the years it’s become causally more apparent to me that a lot of things like the navigation of fluid boundaries etc is all in the body. you can develop a better sense of this by hanging out with dogs and cats and young children etc. the verbal layer is often secondary

here's that video ....which shows up in my roamblog when I search "nothing" because I have a page to match the video title. which shows it feels to me like a central node, one to return to youtube.com/watch?v=0lD4qg…

so! with this Capture app, I could perhaps just see the original tweet and in one move (no tabswitching) capture it to roam with a link to that page but with the SAME APP I could send it to a friend, or append it to a thread, etc