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Hello Roamans! This week we are looking at CAPTURR by Paul Giffiths, a native iOS app that sends notes, todos, voice memos, and scanned documents to your Roam graph from your phone.

CAPTURR

CAPTURR is a smooth native iOS app that sends notes, todos, voice memos, and scanned documents to your Roam graph. It is built for speed and works offline, which means you can capture something on the subway or in a room with bad signal and it will sync when you are back online.

Setup

To get started, download the app from the App Store. CAPTURR is free, collects no data, and nothing leaves your device except what you send to your graph.

Then, paste in a Roam Research API token from your graph settings. You will need one append API token, and one backend (read+edit) API token that you will input in the settings (both can be easily found in Roam by going to Settings, then Graph, then New API Token).

You can also play around with the additional settings, but for now, you're all set!

What it does

You can capture four types of content:

• Written notes and todos, typed directly into the app
• Voice memos, which get transcribed and sent to your graph
• Scanned documents, which are parsed into structured elements like lists and tables before being sent

There is a dedicated TODO view inside the app where you can manage tasks pulled from your graph, organize them into sections with custom filters, and see a badge count for outstanding items.

Everything can go to your Daily Notes or to a specific page of your choice, with optional blocks, tags, and timestamps. CAPTURR also comes with home screen and lock screen widgets for one-tap capture, and you can share URLs or text from any other app directly into your graph or into Roam Reader (check out our newsletter on Roam Reader!)

Check out the great video that Paul Giffiths made to demonstrate his app for more information 👇

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Run to the App Store to install CAPTURR!! Thanks to the creator for building this tool!

This Month's Quality of Life Improvements 🐣

• /table is now interactive! Click into any cell to edit, copy and paste across rows, and move blocks around without ever leaving the table.

• Autocomplete in Roam shows a live preview of pages and blocks and emphasizes matching terms. It also displays reference counts so you can gauge relevance before you link a page or add a reference (type Ctrl-O to toggle the preview on/off)
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• Local Graphs now support attachment transfer (and there’s a new attachments view in settings)

For folks writing :q queries, a handful of new tools:
- Five new current/main-window-* constants for referencing the page or block focused in the main window
- New in-dnp-between, refs-dnp-between, and in-or-refs-dnp-between rules
- Quarter-aware custom symbols like dnp/this-quarter-start, ms/+1Q-end, and ms/last-quarter-start
- Custom :q symbols and rules are now exposed via roamAlphaAPI.data.q
- Datalog block query supports our custom symbols and rules too
- Updated how ms/* and dnp/* symbols resolve on daily note pages

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