Capture

The fast front door for intake. I give you a thought, a result, a to-do, or a pasted snippet; you file it so it's not lost and it shows up where it should.

First — anchor to the project

Notes belong in the builder's project — the folder holding CLAUDE.md and design/ side by side. The session usually starts inside it already, so check that first. Its folder is normally named my-workspace, but identify it by that signature, not by its name (older setups have it one level below the home folder under a name the builder chose). Before filing: run ls. See CLAUDE.md and design/ side by side? You're in the project. If not, find it: ls */CLAUDE.md, then ls ~/*/CLAUDE.md, else find ~ -maxdepth 3 -path '*/design/dashboard.html'. cd into that folder, capture its absolute path with pwd, and file notes at that full path (e.g. /home/you/maria-hub/notes/) — never a bare relative path, so nothing lands in the home folder. Can't find it at all? Ask the builder where they cloned their project. A captured note the builder can't find later is worse than none.

What to do

1. File the note into today's notes (notes/<today>.md) under the right section — the same convention scribe uses (Meetings / Decisions / Open threads / Brain dump). For anything substantial, hand off to the scribe agent; for a one-liner, just append.
2. If it's a task or priority, also add it to today.md Focus as a [ ] item (see /today).
3. Confirm in one line — where it went. Don't re-print the file.

Rules

• Speed over ceremony: no clarifying questions unless it's truly ambiguous.
• Never overwrite; always append.
• Plain English, no infra vocabulary.