Capture thoughts

Purpose

Capture is where you unload mental clutter before you sort it. Use it when your brain is noisy, you keep re-remembering tasks, or you are carrying too many open loops at once.

When to use it

Use Capture when:

• everything feels tangled together
• you keep telling yourself "I need to remember this later"
• you want Brik to break a big mess into smaller work
• typing is harder than speaking and you want to use voice instead

Step-by-step flow

1. Open Capture.
2. If speaking is easier, press Capture with voice and talk normally.
3. If typing is easier, paste a rough brain dump into the text box.
4. Press Capture.
5. Review the Approval queue.
6. Use Approve for items Brik parsed correctly.
7. Use Reject for items that should not enter the queue yet.
8. If you were offline, let Brik replay queued captures automatically when you reconnect.

What Brik is doing in the background

Brik takes your raw input, tries to turn it into smaller, more executable items, and holds those parsed results in the Approval queue before they become active work. This keeps the system useful without forcing you to manually structure every thought before you hit submit.

Common gotchas and reassurance

• A messy brain dump is valid input. You do not need to pre-clean it for Brik.
• Voice capture is not a different workflow. It lands in the same system as typed capture.
• If something lands in the Approval queue, Brik is asking for a quick human check, not telling you that you captured it wrong.
• If you see an offline queue message, your capture is still safe. Brik will replay it when the connection returns.