The capture overlay

Capture is the front door of the daily ritual. The goal is to get a thought out of your head and straight back to whatever you were doing.

Open it

Press ⌘N anywhere in Rymi (or click the ＋ in the toolbar). A card appears with the title field focused and ready. Type the task and press ⏎. It lands in your Inbox, a brief confirmation appears, and the field clears for the next one — so you can empty your head of several thoughts in a row without reopening anything. Press Esc (or click outside the card) when you’re done.

Capturing implies no commitment. You are not deciding when to do it or where it belongs; you are just making sure you will not lose it.

If a task needs more, the card has room for it without getting in the way: a description that stays tucked away until you click “Add description”, and Project, Deadline, and Repeats — each showing a ＋ until set, then the value in colour. Smart parsing fills these in for you as you type (below).

Smart parsing as you type

While you type, Rymi quietly recognises structure and highlights it:

A #project assigns the task to a project.
A date like tomorrow or 15 Jan sets a deadline.
A phrase like every monday makes the task recur.

You can write Email the printer #Website tomorrow and get a task in the Website project, due tomorrow, in one line. Full detail is in smart parsing.

Other ways to capture

On the Mac, Global Quick Capture (⌃⌥C) captures from any other app without switching to Rymi.
On iPhone, the teal ＋ sits at the bottom-right of every screen that shows the tab bar — Tasks and Archive alike — and opens the same card, with the same smart parsing. Wherever you capture from, the task lands in your Inbox.
On iPhone and iPad, the share extension captures a link or selected text from anywhere.
With Siri, you can add a task by voice.

All of them land in the Inbox, ready for you to process when you plan.