Capture · INTERNAL SYSTEM

Cortex Capture

An offline-first phone inbox: the thought gets caught before it evaporates, and the system deals with it later.

LIVE INTERNAL Cortex

SYSTEM NOTEThe problem it solves

Ideas arrive on trains, in corridors and mid-conversation — exactly where a laptop is not. Anything that needs signal, a login or three taps loses the thought. Most capture tools are also write-only: things go in and are never seen again.

PROCESS RAILHow it works

[01]

Capture

text, photo or screenshot, one tap

[02]

Queue

stored locally — works with no signal at all

[03]

Sync

drains automatically when a connection returns

[04]

Triage

each item classified into an action

[05]

Execute

actionable items become real work, not a filed note

SYSTEM NOTEUnder the hood

A progressive web app with a service worker, served over real TLS so the offline path genuinely registers on the phone.
Single write plane: one machine owns the inbox, which removes an entire class of sync conflicts.
Boards on top of the same data for content and ideas, so submitted ideas stay visible until they are explicitly done or dismissed.
House rule: the inbox is human-input only. The system reads it and acts, but never quietly files things into it.

FIELD NOTEWhy it matters

The capture problem is not storage, it is retrieval and follow-through. An inbox nothing ever leaves is a graveyard.