Roadmap — Capture

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v1.5.1 Conditional formatting in templates An empty token leaves nothing behind, but the punctuation you typed around it stays — so mark the part of a custom template that is optional and it's written only when that token has a value. {{#source}} · {{source}}{{/source}} keeps the separator and the link together, so a capture with no page URL no longer leaves the separator behind. {{^source}} does the opposite, for fallbacks. A “Conditional Formatting Tokens” button wraps whatever you've selected, so you don't have to type the braces.
v1.5 Custom capture templates Write your own capture format instead of picking a preset. Tokens in double braces — {{note}}, {{source}}, {{tags}}, {{date:MMM D}} — with Obsidian's own date and time syntax, for both appended captures and new-note bodies. Live preview as you type, and the five presets keep working exactly as before.
v1.4 Your Stats A Stats tab in Settings shows your streak, your pace, where your captures come from, and the milestones you've passed — back-filled from the #capture notes already in your vault. It all lives in a plain file on your Mac; nothing is uploaded. Export any of it as a share card.
v1.4 Capture to any heading level A ### Standup heading is no longer flattened to ## Standup. Capture matches headings at the level they actually are, and typing ### in the heading search works too.
v1.4 Safer appends Appending to a note that isn't plain UTF-8 (an old import, something from Windows) could replace the whole file. Capture now stops and tells you instead of writing over your work.
v1.3.3 Choose your own Ask hotkey The “Ask your vault” shortcut now sits with the other hotkeys in Settings → Shortcuts, so you can record any combo you like — and turning AI Answers off releases ⌥⇧F for other apps.
v1.3 AI Answers (beta) Ask a question in plain English and Capture answers from your own notes — with citations you can click straight into Obsidian. Completely opt-in and bring-your-own-key (Claude or OpenAI); only the handful of relevant snippets ever leave your Mac.
v1.3 Unified Formatting tab Note-title and Date/Time settings are now combined into a single Formatting tab, so everything about how your captures are written lives in one place.
v1.3 Quote highlighted text Choose whether highlighted text is captured as a Markdown blockquote. On by default, easy to toggle off in the new Formatting tab.
v1.2 Date stamps on appends Add a bold date header above each appended capture, so a day's worth of entries logged into one note stays cleanly separated.
v1.2 Custom date & time formats A new Date/Time Format settings tab — pick ISO, US, EU, or long-form dates and 24- or 12-hour time, applied consistently across note titles and appended content.
v1.2 Tags when appending Tag append-mode captures the same way you tag new notes — the tag bar now appears in the append popup and writes your tags beneath the captured content.
v1.1.2 Wider browser support Captures from Zen, Opera, and Orion now pull the page URL and title like Chrome and Safari — plus a fix so Firefox captures include the URL and title too.
v1.1 Heading-targeted append Route captures into a specific ## Heading inside the target note instead of always landing at the end of the file.
v1.1 Tag autocomplete from your vault The tag input suggests tags already in use across your vault — ranked by how often you actually use each one.
v1.1 Blank-note overwrite fix Blank captures into a folder that already had a same-named file no longer overwrite — they numerate as capture 2.md, capture 3.md, …
v1.1 Third-party emoji picker fix Raycast's emoji picker (⌃⌘Space) and similar launcher-based pickers now insert into the capture popup instead of the previously-focused app.
v1.0 1.0 — Capture goes paid Licensing, 7-day trial, and 3-Mac per license activation. The release that lets me keep building Capture full-time.

Now in progress

🤖 Local models for AI Answers Point AI Answers at a model running on your own Mac (Ollama / LM Studio) instead of a cloud provider — fully private, no API key, no per-question cost. It’s already in the code but not yet reliable enough to ship, so it’s temporarily hidden while I get it solid.
📰 Publish date in front matter When you capture an article, Capture would sniff the page's published date (Open Graph, schema.org, common meta tags) and stamp it into your front matter alongside the URL — so your archive sorts chronologically by when the source was written, not when you saved it. Currently under investigation for feasibility — not every page exposes a reliable publish date.
🏷️ Custom front matter field names Rename the default front matter keys to match your vault's conventions — e.g. Added → Created, Source → URL, and so on. Your notes, your schema.
✨ App polish — every release Small fixes and refinements ship in every version. If something feels off, it'll get smoother soon.

Next coming up

🚀 Quick Note Open A keyboard shortcut to open any note in your vault directly — fuzzy-find by title, jump straight to it without ever touching Obsidian's sidebar.

Later further out

🔑 Bring your own keys for AI title generation For people who'd rather use OpenAI, Anthropic, or another cloud model instead of the on-device one. Your keys, your provider, your bill — Capture just routes the request.
📱 Possible iOS app A companion iPhone app for captures on the go — same vault, same speed-of-thought feel. Still exploring whether the desktop loop translates cleanly to a phone; no promises yet.