Lesson 04~4 min

Quick Capture.

By the end of this lessonYou'll be able to drop any thought into DEF in five seconds, then process it when you have time.
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You're walking through the kitchen. The cook says the espresso grinder is making a weird noise. You can't fix it now, but you don't want to forget. Quick Capture is the button you press in the next five seconds so it doesn't disappear from your head.

Where it is

Bottom right of your dashboard, on every tab, there's a round floating button. That's Quick Capture. Tap it.

A small box opens. Type the thing in your own words. Press Capture. Done. A confirmation flashes and the button disappears until next time.

What happens next

The capture lands in a section called Bandeja (your processing inbox) on My Tasks, near the top of the page. It sits there until you decide what kind of thing it is.

When you're ready to process it, you click the capture. A small drawer slides open with three buttons:

  • Make it a task — turn it into a task with a department and assignee.
  • Make it an issue — escalate it as something needing triage.
  • Trash — it was just a thought, doesn't need action.

You pick one. DEF takes the capture forward from there. The capture row clears from your Bandeja.

Why this matters

The most expensive thing about running an operation is forgetting. Things slip through the cracks not because they're hard but because nobody wrote them down at the moment they appeared. Quick Capture cuts that window to five seconds.

Use it for anything: a guest comment you overheard, a maintenance thing you noticed, an idea for a new menu item, something to ask a vendor. If you can't act on it right now, capture it and process it later. Future-you will thank you.

Try it now

Open DEF, tap the Quick Capture button, type "This is my first capture", press Capture. Then go to My Tasks and find the Bandeja section. Click the row and try the Make-it-a-task button (you can trash the resulting task right after).