Post Capture
9 September 2026 · Wearable app · 1 min read
tl;dr
An app for my glasses. I speak, it saves, I sort it out later.
- Capturing an idea costs one pinch and no phone
- Eight structure prompts cycle for ideas that arrive shapeless
- Posted ideas grey out but stay put, so nothing gets pitched twice
- One HTML file, no build step, no account
01The problem
The ideas arrive while walking. They never arrive at a desk. By the time I was back at a laptop the thought was gone, or worse, I knew I had had one and could not get it back. Reaching for a phone kills the thing that produced the idea in the first place.
02What I built
A capture app that runs on the glasses. Focus the field, pinch, speak. The idea lands at the top of the list with a timestamp. Pinch a saved one and it marks as posted, greys out, and stays exactly where it was. That last part matters more than it sounds. Nothing disappears, so nothing gets pitched twice.
03How it works
One HTML file. No build step, no dependencies, no account, nothing to log into. Eight structure prompts cycle behind a button, so an idea that turns up without a shape can borrow one. A Where field tags everything captured after it, so a thought I had somewhere keeps the place attached to it.
04What I would change
Navigation is a directional pad and a pinch, because that is all the glasses give you. That constraint is the whole reason it is one screen with no menus. On a laptop it looks almost too plain. The app was one file. The work was deciding what to leave out.
Thoughts on this one?
Send it straight to me. Nothing is published here, it just lands in my inbox already labelled with which build you are talking about.
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