Every fast thinker hits the same four walls. Capture takes them down.
💭
"I had a thought worth keeping. By the time I switched apps, it was gone."
Capture pulls a window up over whatever you're already in. Two seconds, then back to what you were doing.
🗂
"My Inbox folder has 400 untitled notes I'll never sort."
Tag and route at capture time. Notes land where they belong, with the context they came from.
🌀
"Opening Obsidian to write one line breaks my flow worse than losing the thought."
No vault to navigate. No file to create. ⌥C, type, ⌘+Return. Done.
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"I read something interesting in Safari but never got around to clipping it."
Highlight, ⌥C, save. The page link, your highlight, and your note — together in one place.
See it in action
Watch a thought go from idea to Obsidian in 60 seconds.
No setup walk-through. Just one hotkey, one window, one save.
1Press ⌥C from any app
2Type the thought, tag it, route it
3Save to your Obsidian inbox or append to the right note
Loops back to your work in under a minute
What it does
Three things, each as fast as you are.
Capture isn't a note-taking app. It's a doorway into the one you already use.
Quick Capture
Hit ⌥C anywhere on your Mac. A small window appears over whatever you're doing. Type your thought, tag it, save it. The window disappears. The note's already in Obsidian.
No app to launch. No vault to open. No flow to break.
Capture
Got an idea — log it before it’s gone.
Obsidian/InboxCapture
⌥+C
Quick Append
Already have a note for that project? Capture remembers it. New thoughts land at the bottom of the same note — no folder navigation, no file open, no copy and paste.
One project. One note. Many small captures.
📝Daily Notes / 05MAY2026.md
Get sales hiring assessment deployed
Pack for Portland trip (Bring Leica!)
Write newsletter
Get Emily flowers
Just appended · 3:42 PM
Keyboard-First
Every action is a chord. ⌥C opens the window. ⌘D changes destination. ⌘W clears context. Tab moves focus. ⌘⏎ saves.
Hands stay on the keyboard. Always.
⌥COpen Capture
⌘DChange destination
⌘WClear context
TabNext field
⌘⏎Save & close
Made with love in Austin, TX
Hey, I'm Chris 👋🏼 I live in Austin and write a weekly tech newsletter called the Hiro Report. I built Capture because I wanted a way to get ideas — newsletter notes, life things, family stuff — into Obsidian without having to actually open Obsidian and navigate to where they belong. I'm excited to finally share Capture with other people. If you need any support, I'm standing by — I read every email.
Loved by fast thinkers
Folks who have given up the constant context switching.
Capture gets everything right in meeting my long-unaddressed need to make quick notes in Obsidian. This app has practically renewed my interest in using Obsidian as a place for everyday note-taking. Designed natively for the Mac, it's fast and a great-looking app. I even love its soft chimes.
Pratik
As a long-time Obsidian user and note taker, Capture is an absolutely amazing addition to my toolset. While there are a number of ways to roll your own quick capture in Obsidian with plugins, Apple Shortcuts and the like, this app simplifies the process in a simple, useful fashion.
Anthony Baker
An elegant, quick way to capture information and add it to my Obsidian 'Brain', the Capture app has become an integral part of my workflow when I need to rapidly capture a thought. Mahalo nui for creating such an awesome app!
Jerome Koehler
I love what Obsidian stands for and its privacy-first mentality. Capture adds another useful tool to my daily workflow. Once you start using it, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.
Cliff
Capture allows me to instantly save a thought before I lose it while moving through tasks. With a simple hotkey, I can save any idea that comes to mind — a to-do for the day, a quote I read that I want to look into later, etc.
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Shaheen
Common questions
Everything people ask before downloading.
Do I need paid Obsidian?
No. Capture works with the free version of Obsidian, and can write to any folder of Markdown files even if you don't use Obsidian at all.
What does the free trial include?
The full app for 7 days. No credit card, no feature gating, no subscription trap. If you keep using it, the license is $7.99 once.
Why does it ask for Accessibility permission?
Two reasons: so Capture can see the title and URL of whatever's frontmost (to attach as context), and so it can grab any text you've highlighted when you fire a quote capture. macOS only exposes both of those through the Accessibility API. Capture never records keystrokes or watches what you type.
Does my note leave my Mac?
No. Capture is local-only. Your notes go straight to your Markdown files on disk. There's no Capture cloud and no telemetry on note content.
How many Macs can I use it on?
Up to 5 Macs per license. One purchase covers your laptop, your desktop, and any others you live on.
What happens after the trial?
You get a one-time prompt to buy. Pay $7.99 and the app keeps working forever, with lifetime updates included.
Stop losing thoughts. Start capturing them.
$7.99 · lifetime updates · up to 5 Macs · 7-day free trial
