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Let’s try this a different way…

How do you want to indicate something should be retained? What is the single, physical act you want to perform to tell the operating system “this thing needs to be captured”?

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oldany@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s a really good way to frame it.

I kept coming back to the idea that the “act” shouldn’t be something new you have to learn — it should reuse what you’re already doing in each context.

So instead of one single physical gesture, it’s more like a single intent expressed through different native actions:

on mobile → share

on desktop → paste

in browser → bookmarklet

sometimes even just typing something and sending it

The key (for me) wasn’t forcing one gesture, but making all of those feel like the same action underneath.

So the mental model becomes: “this goes into my inbox”, regardless of how I triggered it.

That’s where things started to click for me.
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