Brain Dump: talk or type an idea

Not every idea arrives in a meeting. Brain Dump is somewhere to put a thought the moment you have it, in your own words, and have the app pull content ideas out of it the same way it does from a call.

Start in your Inbox

Brain Dump starts from your Inbox, which is also where everything you capture arrives. Your capture link lives there, and that link is what opens the page you type or talk into.

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   Select Inbox in the sidebar.

   

2. 2

   Select Brain dump links at the top of the page. A panel opens under the heading Capture Channels.

   

3. 3

   Find Your capture link and select the copy control beside it.

4. 4

   Open that link. You get a page headed Brain Dump, over the line Talk or type your thoughts below — they'll be turned into content ideas.

   

Capture a thought

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   Select Start Dictation and speak, or type into the box. The box asks what is on your mind, and invites your thoughts, ideas, or anything you want to turn into content.

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   Select Extract Content. The page shows Saving while it goes, then Captured, with Capture another if you have more to add.

Speaking instead of typing

Start Dictation appears where your browser supports speech. Select it again when you have finished, which shows as Stop Dictation. Where speech is not supported, the page suggests using your device dictation instead, and the box still takes typing.

Say enough to work with

A capture needs to be at least 40 characters before the app will look for ideas in it. That is roughly a full sentence. Anything shorter is still kept and shows in your Inbox marked Too short, so a half-thought is not thrown away, but nothing is pulled out of it.

What happens to it

A capture goes to your Inbox, where it shows what stage it has reached while the app reads it. Once ideas have been found you can open them from there.

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